Oral history books

"This book follows six mischievous adventures of Iktomi, the Lakota name for the American Indian ""Trickster.""...  Read More >>

The Japanese invasion of Shanghai in 1937 led 30 million Chinese to flee their homes in terror, and live—in the...  Read More >>

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Moving Beyond Borders is the first book-length history of Black health care workers in Canada, delving into the...  Read More >>

Moving Beyond Borders is the first book-length history of Black health care workers in Canada, delving into the...  Read More >>

In 1910 Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set sail for Antarctica, each from his own starting point, and the...  Read More >>

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For the first time in English, Michael Ostling tells the story of the imagined Polish witches, showing how ordinary...  Read More >>

This book demonstrates how oral history can provide a valuable way of understanding locality, which is important...  Read More >>

Presents richly detailed, vivid, and widely varied accounts by women pioneers during the late nineteenth century...  Read More >>

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"Welcoming women, Blacks, and immigrants long before most other unions, the Wobblies from the start were labor's...  Read More >>

This oral history collection brings together extended interviews with fifteen women, illuminating the part that...  Read More >>

This oral history collection brings together extended interviews with fifteen women, illuminating the part that...  Read More >>

Using first-person narratives collected through oral history interviews, this groundbreaking book collects black...  Read More >>

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

Using first-person narratives collected through oral history interviews, this groundbreaking book collects black...  Read More >>

The most destructive war in human history, World War II continues to generate an astonishingly rich trove of historical...  Read More >>

The Second World War widows were the ‘forgotten women’, largely ignored by the government and the majority of the...  Read More >>

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A definitive television work on the Second World War. It set out to tell the story of the war through the testimony...  Read More >>

A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive study of one city, Baltimore, forty years after the unrest that swept across some 120 U.S....  Read More >>