Oral history books

1378 books were found.

Coming Through: Voices of a South Carolina Gullah Community from WPA Oral Histories

Coming Through: Voices of a South Carolina Gullah Community...

Author: Genevieve W. Chandler ,  Kincaid Mills
ISBN: 9781570037214
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Presents interviews, stories, and folktales of former slaves living in the Waccamaw Neck region of South Carolina...  Read More >>

Oral History in a Wounded Country: Interactive Interviewing in South Africa

Oral History in a Wounded Country: Interactive Interviewing...

Author: Philippe Denis ,  Radikobo Ntsimane
ISBN: 9781869141479
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Shows how the cultural, political, socio-economic and intellectual evolutions that gave birth to South Africa affect...  Read More >>

World at War, The

World at War, The

Author: Richard Holmes
ISBN: 9780091917524
Format: Paperback
$71.15

A television work on the Second World War, this work tells the story of the war through the testimony of key participants...  Read More >>

Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War

Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans...

Author: Richard Stacewicz
ISBN: 9781931859608
Format: Paperback
$32.99

The story of the soldiers who spoke their conscience and helped end the war in Vietnam.  Read More >>

Aboriginal Oral Traditions: Theory, Practice, Ethics

Aboriginal Oral Traditions: Theory, Practice, Ethics...

Author: Renee Hulan ,  Renate Eigenbrod
ISBN: 9781552662670
Format: Paperback
$40.95

Selected from a conference on Aboriginal oral traditions, these essays cover three broad Subject areas: oral traditions...  Read More >>

Competing Voices from the Crusades: Fighting Words

Competing Voices from the Crusades: Fighting Words

Author: James Muldoon ,  Andrew Holt (Florida State College at Jacksonville, USA)
ISBN: 9781846450112
Format: Hardback
$84.00

Suitable for students and readers with a general interest in medieval history, this anthology juxtaposes the recorded...  Read More >>

Jazz and Blues Musicians of South Carolina: Interviews with Jabbo, Dizzy, Drink, and Others

Jazz and Blues Musicians of South Carolina: Interviews...

Author: Benjamin Franklin
ISBN: 9781570037436
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Presents an oral history of the tradition and influence of jazz and the blues in the Palmetto State. This book features...  Read More >>

Where Beards Wag All

Where Beards Wag All

Author: George Ewart Evans
ISBN: 9780571244317
Format: Paperback
$51.75

Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.  Read More >>

Spoken History

Spoken History

Author: George Ewart Evans
ISBN: 9780571244324
Format: Paperback
$51.75

Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.  Read More >>

Survival Along the Continental Divide: An Anthology of Interviews

Survival Along the Continental Divide: An Anthology...

Author: Jack Loeffler
ISBN: 9780826344397
Format: Hardback
$34.19

 Read More >>

Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit

Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body,...

Author: Jo-ann Archibald
ISBN: 9780774814027
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Deals with the power of stories to educate and heal the heart, mind, body, and spirit. This book demonstrates how...  Read More >>

Bahamian Memories: Island Voices of the Twentieth Century

Bahamian Memories: Island Voices of the Twentieth Century...

Author: Olga Culmer Jenkins
ISBN: 9780813032726
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Features interviews of people in The Bahamas, who were born between 1900 and 1942.  Read More >>

Royal Succession in the African Kingdom of NSO: A Study in Oral Historiography

Royal Succession in the African Kingdom of NSO: A Study...

Author: Bongfen Chem-Langhee ,  Verkijika Fanso
ISBN: 9780773450417
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Suitable for writers and students of African oral history, particularly ethno-historians and anthropologists.  Read More >>

Their Darkest Hour: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII

Their Darkest Hour: People Tested to the Extreme in...

Author: Laurence Rees
ISBN: 9780091917593
Format: Paperback
$19.99

How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range?  Read More >>

Uqalurait: An Oral History of Nunavut

Uqalurait: An Oral History of Nunavut

Author: John Bennett ,  Susan Rowley
ISBN: 9780773523418
Format: Paperback
$92.27

 Read More >>

Sitting Up With the Dead: A Storied Journey Through the American South

Sitting Up With the Dead: A Storied Journey Through...

Author: Pamela Petro
ISBN: 9780007292295
Format: Paperback
$58.05

An enthralling, rollicking tour among the storytellers of the American Deep South.  Read More >>

Proverbs in African Orature: The Aniocha-Igbo Experience

Proverbs in African Orature: The Aniocha-Igbo Experience...

Author: Ambrose Adikamkwu Monye
ISBN: 9780761838999
Format: Paperback
$67.95

Proverbs in African Orature examines how preliterate Africans handle oral literacy criticism of their proverbs....  Read More >>

The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves

The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former...

Author: Andrew Ward ,  Richard Allen
ISBN: 9781400106141
Format: Audio
$105.57

Groundbreaking, compelling, and poignant, The Slaves' War delivers an unprecedented vision of the nation's bloodiest...  Read More >>

The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves

The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former...

Author: Andrew Ward ,  Richard Allen
ISBN: 9781400136148
Format: Audio
$211.17

Groundbreaking, compelling, and poignant, The Slaves' War delivers an unprecedented vision of the nation's bloodiest...  Read More >>

Oral History and Public Memories

Oral History and Public Memories

Author: Paula Hamilton ,  Linda Shopes
ISBN: 9781592131419
Format: Paperback
$84.35

 Read More >>

Oral History and Public Memories

Oral History and Public Memories

Author: Paula Hamilton ,  Linda Shopes
ISBN: 9781592131402
Format: Hardback
$215.16

Explores the relationship between the well-established practice of oral history and the burgeoning field of memory...  Read More >>

Sister in Sorrow: Life Histories of Female Holocaust Survivors from Hungary

Sister in Sorrow: Life Histories of Female Holocaust...

Author: Ilana Rosen
ISBN: 9780814331293
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Offers a glimpse into the world of Hungarian Holocaust survivors through the stories of fifteen survivors, as told...  Read More >>

Latest Reading Guide

MRG2025CC

 

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List