The Oral History Review articles from June 2003

The Oral History Review archives from June 2003

Editor's introduction.
June 22, 2003... With this issue, the Oral History Review joins the History Cooperative, the leading forum for the online publication of historical journals. In 2000, the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians, in...

"He didn't have no cross": Tombs and Graves as racial boundary tactics on a Louisiana Barrier Island.
June 22, 2003... Abstract This is a story about a Louisiana gulf-coast community's attempt to rediscover its history of racial diversity. The focus is an almost-forgotten, now-hidden indigent graveyard where people of color allegedly were buried prior to the...

An international oral history collaboration: from book to film and from author to subject.(Introduction)
June 22, 2003... "The Embers of Hiroshima: From Author to Subject in a Transnational International Oral History Collaboration" and "From Atomic Fragments to Memories of the Trinity Bomb: A Bridge of Oral History over the Pacific" are the result of a three-year...

The embers of Hiroshima: from author to subject in a transnational oral history collaboration.
June 22, 2003... Abstract This paper examines an international oral history collaboration involving the "translation" of the American book, Atomic Fragments: A Daughter's Questions, by Mary Palevsky, into the Japanese documentary film, Memories of the Trinity...

From Atomic Fragments to Memories of the Trinity Bomb: a bridge of oral history over the pacific.
June 22, 2003... Abstract This paper first introduces the background of the making of Memories of the Trinity Bomb, a Japanese documentary film based on the book Atomic Fragments: A Daughter's Questions, authored by Mary Palevsky. Yoshihiko Muraki, an...

Oral history in the federal government.(Introduction)
June 22, 2003... Alan Nevins may have founded the first oral history archives at Columbia University in 1948, but that occurred a half century after the federal government sent ethnographers out West to record the stories and music of Native Americans. It...

The status of oral history in the Army: expanding a tradition.
June 22, 2003... Abstract The U.S. Army has a long record of utilizing oral history in both internal studies and official histories to supplement the available official records and documents. In this article the author briefly surveys the origins of the modern...

Documenting Cultural and Historical Memory: Oral History in the National Park Service.
June 22, 2003... Abstract "Documenting Cultural and Historical Memory: Oral History in the National Park Service" provides an overview and assessment of the current state of oral history projects and programs within the National Park Service. Oral history has...

"We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming": NASA, oral history, and the contemporary past.
June 22, 2003... Abstract Over the forty-five years since its creation, NASA has completed literally thousands of oral histories with people involved in the agency and its programs. These include formal oral histories that collect information on the career of...

Mah-Jongg: the Tiles that Bind.(Video Recording Review)
June 22, 2003... MAH-JONGG: THE TILES THAT BIND. Produced and directed by Bari Pearlman and Phyllis Heller. BTG Productions, 1999. $25.00 BTG Productions, P.O. Box 133 New York, NY 10014; http://www. MahJonggMovie.com. In a compelling sequence of oral...

Traders: Voices from the Trading Post. A Teachers' Guide.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... TRADERS: VOICES FROM THE TRADING POST. A TEACHERS' GUIDE. Kristin Dutcher Mann, ed. Cline Library Special Collections and Archives Department, Flagstaff, AZ: Northern Arizona University: Arizona Board of Regents, 2000....

Stranger with a Camera.(Movie Review)
June 22, 2003... STRANGER WITH A CAMERA: Produced and Directed by Elizabeth Barret with Dee Davis, Executive Producer; Judi Jennings, co-producer; Whitesburg: Appalshop Films, 2000. 58 minutes. Sale, $24.95 (personal use); $195.00 (institutional). 800-545-7467;...

Charles Ives Remembered: an Oral History.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... CHARLES IVES REMEMBERED: AN ORAL HISTORY. By Vivian Perlis, with a forward by J. Peter Burkholder. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002. 237 pp. + xxii. Softbound $18.95. Most oral histories centering on a single...

Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Factory.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... SWEATSHOP WARRIORS: IMMIGRANT WOMEN WORKERS TAKE ON THE GLOBAL FACTORY. By Miriam Ching Yoon Louie. Boston: South End Press, 2001.306 pp. Softbound $18.00. Sweatshop Warriors helps the reader understand what it's like for immigrants who...

Faces and Voices of Refugee Youth.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... FACES AND VOICES OF REFUGEE YOUTH. By Joyce A. Kelen and Leslie G. Kelen. Salt Lake City: Center for Documentary Arts, 2002.62 pp. Softbound $9.95. As conflicts spark and escalate in different parts of the globe, increasing numbers of...

Rock Hill, South Carolina: Gateway to the New South.(3 books on race relations)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... ROCK HILL, SOUTH CAROLINA: GATEWAY TO THE NEW SOUTH. Compiled by J. Edward Lee and Anne E. Beard. Charleston, SC:Arcadia Publishing, 1999. 96 pp. Softbound $16.99. SAN ANTONIO IN THE 1920S AND 1930S. By Mary E. Livingston. Charleston, SC:...

Pearl's Secret: a Black Man's Search for His White Family.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... PEARL'S SECRET: A BLACK MAN'S SEARCH FOR HIS WHITE FAMILY. By Neil Henry. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001.321 pp. Hardbound $40.00; softbound $12.95. Family history and autobiography continue to intrigue us....

Life at the Texas State Lunatic Asylum.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... LIFE AT THE TEXAS STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM, 1857-1997. By Sarah C. Sitton. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. 208 pp. 24 b&w photos. Hardbound $34.95. Sarah C. Sitton, a professor of psychology, provides a rich chronicle of the...

Exiles from a Future Time: the Forging of the Mid-Twentieth Century Left.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... EXILES FROM A FUTURE TIME: THE FORGING OF THE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY LEFT. By Alan M. Wald. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Hardbound $49.50; softbound $19.95. Not many reviewers of Alan Wald's widely admired books on...

The Price of Dissent: Testimonies to Political Repression in America.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... THE PRICE OF DISSENT: TESTIMONIES TO POLITICAL REPRESSION IN AMERICA. By Bud Schultz and Ruth Schultz. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 479 pp. Hardbound $65.00; softbound $24.95. This collection of excerpts from oral history...

Minstrel of the Appalachians: the Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford.(Oral History Review)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... MINSTREL OF THE APPALACHIANS: THE STORY OF BASCOM LAMAR LUNSFORD. By Loyal Jones. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. 272 pp. Softbound $25.00. The University Press of Kentucky is either very lucky or very market savvy, and the...

Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... MAMA LEARNED US TO WORK: FARM WOMEN IN THE NEW SOUTH. By LuAnn Jones. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 272 pp. Hardbound $49.95; softbound $19.95. In Mama Learned Us to Work, LuAnn Jones brings a personal, humanizing...

Linked Arms: a Rural Community Resists Nuclear Waste.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... LINKED ARMS: A RURAL COMMUNITY RESISTS NUCLEAR WASTE. By Thomas V. Peterson. Photographs by Steve Myers. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002. 266 pp. Hardbound $57.50; softbound $18.95. Written by an active participant in a...

Changing Works: Visions of a Lost Agriculture.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... CHANGING WORKS: VISIONS OF A LOST AGRICULTURE. By Douglas Harper. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 302 pp. Hardbound $35.00. With the spectacular design of a fine photography monograph, this study of agriculture on the northern...

Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... BEYOND CARNIVAL: MALE HOMOSEXUALITY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRAZIL. By James N. Green. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 408 pp. Hardbound $40.00; softbound $23.00. "For many foreign observers," James N. Green notes in his book,...

Jazz on the Road-Don Albert's Musical Life.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... JAZZ ON THE ROAD-DON ALBERT'S MUSICAL LIFE. By Christopher Wilkinson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001 302 pp. Hardbound $50.00; softbound $19.95. Jazz on the Road transports readers into the very seedbed of American Jazz...

Age, Narrative and Migration the Life Course and Life Histories of Bengali Elders in London.(Oral History Review)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... AGE, NARRATIVE AND MIGRATION THE LIFE COURSE AND LIFE HISTORIES OF BENGALI ELDERS IN LONDON. By Katy Gardner. New York: Berg Publications, 2002. 254 pp. Hardbound $70.00 Age, Narrative and Migration is based on the narratives of elderly...

Honor the Grandmohters: Dakota and Lakota Women Tell their Stories.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... HONOR THE GRANDMOHTERS: DAKOTA AND LAKOTA WOMEN TELL THIER STORIES. Edited by Sarah Penman. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2000. Softbound $14.95. This book was several years in the making. The author is non-Native, a...

Researching Life Stories and Family Histories.(3 books on biographical research)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... RESEARCHING LIFE STORIES AND FAMILY HISTORIES. By Robert L. Miller. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2000. 172 pp. Hardbound $89.95; softbound $30.95. THE LIFE STORY INTERVIEW. By Robert Atkinson. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications,...