The Oral History Review articles from June 2004

The Oral History Review archives from June 2004

Editor's introduction.(Editorial)
June 22, 2004... Strikes, protests, and a firefight highlight this issue of the OHR. The first two articles offer fine examples of how oral history can illuminate the perspective of the kinds of people who have often been marginalized in the historical...

"It tears the heart right out of you": memories of striker replacement at International Paper Company in De Pere, Wisconsin, 1987-88.(Interview)
June 22, 2004... Abstract In the summer of 1987, more than 370 workers at Nicolet Paper Company in De Pere, Wisconsin, walked out on strike after refusing to agree to a wide range of concessions demanded by International Paper Company (IP), Nicolet's parent...

Communities of resistance: women and the Catholic Left of the late 1960s.
June 22, 2004... Abstract This article examines how gender shaped the political culture and political communities that developed among radical Catholics in their direct action protests against the Vietnam War. Its focus is on the Catholic Left, an...

Gaining access and sharing authority: what I learned about oral history from an episode in U.S.-China transnationalism.
June 22, 2004... Abstract The terms "access" and "authority" serve in this article as distilled references for two ongoing and interrelated discussions within oral history. Both discussions turn on the relationship between scholar/interviewer and...

Remembering a Vietnam War firefight: changing perspectives over time.
June 22, 2004... Abstract Intense, deadly combat is one of the most traumatic of human experiences. How veterans remember it and how they retell it, is explored in this article by Marine Corps Oral Historian Fred H. Allison. Allison compares two interviews of...

Hazel Dickens--It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... HAZEL DICKENS--IT'S HARD TO TELL THE SINGER FROM THE SONG. Produced and Directed by Mimi Pickering. Whitesburg: Appalshop Films, 2001. 61-minutes; appalshopsales@appalshop.org; http://www.appalshop.org. The Washington Post wrote recently,...

1932: Scars of Memory.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... 1932: SCARS OF MEMORY. Directed by Jeffrey Gould and Carlos Henriquez Consalvi. New York: First Run / Icarus Films, 2002. 53-minutes; Sale/video: $390, Rental/video: $75. http://www.frif.com/index. html; (718) 488-8900. The late 1920s and...

Through the Eyes of a Child: Growing Up Black in St. Louis, 1940-1980.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD: GROWING UP BLACK IN ST. LOUIS, 1940-1980. Missouri History Museum, 16 March 2003-29 February 2004. Jacqueline K. Dace, Project Chair. "I had a really idyllic childhood, because I didn't concern myself with...

A Way Out of No Way.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... A WAY OUT OF NO WAY. By Dianne Swann-Wright. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2002. 195 pp. Softbound, $49.50. The complex and fascinating manner in which rural African Americans in the Jim Crow South managed to...

Sticking to the Union: an Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... STICKING TO THE UNION: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JULIA RUUTTILA. By Sandy Polishuk, Forward by Amy Kesselman. New York: Palgrave/McMillan, 2003. 283 pp. $22.95 hard cover. This is a remarkable book about a remarkable woman,...

The Oral History Manual.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... THE ORAL HISTORY MANUAL. By Barbara W. Sommer and Mary Kay Quinlan. American Association for State and Local History Book Series. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2002. 129 pages. Softbound, $24.95. Barbara W. Sommer and Mary Kay Quinlan...

From Auschwitz to Ithaca: the Transnational Journey of Jake Geldwert.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... FROM AUSCHWITZ TO ITHACA: THE TRANSNATIONAL JOURNEY OF JAKE GELDWERT. With an introduction by Diane L. Wolf. Bethesda: CDL Press, 2002. 124 pp. Softbound, $15. Considering the sheer volume of Holocaust accounts, it has become incumbent...

All Poets Welcome: the Lower East Side Poetry Scene of the 1960s.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... ALL POETS WELCOME: THE LOWER EAST SIDE POETRY SCENE OF THE 1960S. By Daniel Kane. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. 306 pp. Includes CD. Hardbound, $65.00; Softbound, $27.50. How do you get from the medieval troubadours to the...

Crossing the Blvd: Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... CROSSING THE BLVD: STRANGERS, NEIGHBORS, ALIENS IN A NEW AMERICA. By Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2003. 400 pp. Hardbound (includes CD), $35.00; Softbound, $19.95. Warren Lehrer's and Judith Sloan's...

Worked Over: the Corporate Sabotage of an American Community.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... WORKED OVER: THE CORPORATE SABOTAGE OF AN AMERICAN COMMUNITY. By Dimitra Doukas. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. 199 pp. Hardbound, $39.95; Softbound, $18.95. Worked Over is an ambitious work that explores two hundred years in the...

The Dust of Life: America's Children Abandoned in Vietnam.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... THE DUST OF LIFE: AMERICA'S CHILDREN ABANDONED IN VIETNAM. By Robert S. McKelvey. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. 135 pp. Glossary, bibliography, index. Softbound, $14.95. Robert McKelvey served as a Marine in Vietnam in 1969...

Dorothy Day: Portraits by Those Who Knew Her.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... DOROTHY DAY: PORTRAITS BY THOSE WHO KNEW HER. By Rosalie G. Riegle. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2003. 207 pp. Hardbound, $22.00. It would be hard to imagine a more ideal candidate for an oral history biography than Dorothy Day,...

Wisconsin Indians.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... WISCONSIN INDIANS. By Nancy Oestreich Lurie. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2002. 90 pages, paper, $8.95. INDIAN NATIONS OF WISCONSIN: HISTORIES OF ENDURANCE AND RENEWAL. By Patty Loew. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society...

The Order Has Been Carried Out: History, Memory, and Meaning of a Nazi Massacre in Rome.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... THE ORDER HAS BEEN CARRIED OUT: HISTORY, MEMORY, AND MEANING OF A NAZI MASSACRE IN ROME. By Alessandro Portelli. New York: Palgrave Macmillan [an imprint of St. Martin's Press, LLC], 2003. 329 pp. [+ xii]. Hardcover, $39.95. When it builds...

The Silk Weavers of Kyoto: Family and Work in a Changing Traditional Industry.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... THE SILK WEAVERS OF KYOTO: FAMILY AND WORK IN A CHANGING TRADITIONAL INDUSTRY. By Tamara K. Hareven. Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 2002. 346 pp. In The Silk Weavers of Kyoto: Family and Work in a Changing...