Oral history books

In the late 1730s, the local inhabitants of South Africa stumbled upon Bessie, a seven-year-old English girl huddled...  Read More >>

Takes the story of outlaw baseball into extra innings, including interviews with the key players and personnel associated...  Read More >>

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Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Lyn Smith visits the oral accounts preserved in the...  Read More >>

Finalist, Montana New Zealand Book Awards. The Silent Migration records the remarkable beginnings of the Ngati Poneke...  Read More >>

More than 10,000 New Zealand servicemen were on active duty with the RAF and the Royal Navy at the time of the D-Day...  Read More >>

This volume begins in the early 1800s and traces oral and archival stories of the Whanganui River. Each chapter...  Read More >>

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In recent decades, oral history has matured into an established field of critical importance to historians and social...  Read More >>

Based on interviews with 76 men who cowboyed in Texas, New Mexico, and other parts of the West before 1932, this...  Read More >>

Details about life among the former Texas Indian peoples, including the Kiowas, Comanches, Wichitas, Caddos, Tonkawas,...  Read More >>

One of Florida's most endangered river systems is the Apalachicola River and Bay basin. This is a collection of...  Read More >>

"Among the classics of ancient Greek and Jewish literature, the story of ""Luke-Acts"" has few rivals. This work...  Read More >>

Providing a history of the institution of slavery in Texas, this text yields insight into the impact of slavery...  Read More >>

A collection of the personal life histories of four female St'at'imc elders: Beverley Frank, Gertrude (Gertie) Ned,...  Read More >>

"""This is a fascinating and important book."" - Moshe Sluhovsky, California State University, Long Beach"  Read More >>

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

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Nineteen-hundred years ago, someone called the Beloved Disciple told stories about Jesus and his days on earth....  Read More >>

In 1960, voters decided that Vinegar Hill would be redeveloped. Vinegar Hill's displaced residents discuss the loss...  Read More >>

Drawing on the work of scholars and practitioners such as Augusto Boal, Gloria Anzaldua, and Trinh Minh-ha, these...  Read More >>

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An Unauthorized Biography of the World explores the practice of engaged oral history: the difficult, sometimes dangerous...  Read More >>

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