Oral history books

This book collects original research essays to explore the diverse uses of photographs and photography in oral history,...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Oral History brings together forty authors on five continents to address the evolution of...  Read More >>

The Home Front as seen by the wartime media, highlighting community and social ties  Read More >>

Voices from the Workhouse tells the real inside story of the workhouse - in the words of those who experienced the...  Read More >>

This book is a historical and cultural interpretation of a symbolic place in the United States, Harlan County, Kentucky,...  Read More >>

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"Cosmopolitan Africa, 1700-1875, offers an alternative interpretation of the 175 years leading up to the formal...  Read More >>

This contemporary oral history, based on interviews conducted over an 18-year period, is the first of its kind in...  Read More >>

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"The nineteenth-century """"cult of curability"""" engendered the optimistic belief that mental illness could be...  Read More >>

In this insightful and provocative volume, Rameyreveals spirituals and slave songs to be a crucial element in American...  Read More >>

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Many Inuit elders experienced severe hardships in their past: from starvation to surviving the extreme cold to forced...  Read More >>

This book approaches a central concern of oral literature studies worldwide, with a special focus on Africa: how...  Read More >>

Of the 400,000 German-speaking Jews that escaped the Third Reich, about 16,000 ended up in Shanghai, China. This...  Read More >>

Of the 400,000 German-speaking Jews that escaped the Third Reich, about 16,000 ended up in Shanghai, China. This...  Read More >>

The process commenced with the establishment of a temporary veterinary defence line against rinderpest by the German...  Read More >>

New York City custom car and motorcycle culture has long been overshadowed by the left coast designers and machines....  Read More >>

The valuable interviews conducted by Nebraska judge Eli S. Ricker with Indian eyewitnesses to the Wounded Knee massacre,...  Read More >>

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British South Asian theatre has been one of the most significant features of diasporic artistic activity throughout...  Read More >>

“Highly recommended read.” – SharedTroubles “What Ken is creating is something historians will be using centuries...  Read More >>