Oral history books

The Interviewing Inuit Elders series grew out of the Oral Traditions course, held at the Iqaluit campus of Nunavut...  Read More >>

Perpectives on Traditional Law does not address Western perspectives on law or means of social control, nor Western...  Read More >>

Portelli offers a new and challenging approach to oral history, with an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective....  Read More >>

One of the Holocaust's literary classics, The House of Ashes was first published in 1964. It has been extensively...  Read More >>

"Acknowledgments Introduction I. Memory, History, and Cultural Authority Headnotes 1. Oral History and...  Read More >>

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Richard Lukas's book, encompassing the wartime recollections of sixty ordinary Poles under Nazi occupation, constitutes...  Read More >>

Using methods of conversation/discourse analysis, the author describes the collaborative processes that enable interviewers...  Read More >>

From hundreds of interviews gathered by the Appalachian Oral History Project, editors Laurel Shackelford and Bill...  Read More >>

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In this revised edition, Paul Thompson shows how important oral history is in promoting contact between generations...  Read More >>

An account of the development of oral history is traced through its past and into its future, the new evidence,...  Read More >>

From ordinary soldiers to commanding officers, thirty-three tours of duty are presented in rough chronological order,...  Read More >>

A classic work from Terence Ranger now back in print.  Read More >>

Since the publication of Vansina's earlier book, oral traditions have now become widely accepted as a legitimate...  Read More >>

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.,.""Two major sections deal with the Resistance and with concentration camp life; a shorter final section concerns...  Read More >>

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The Chumash, reduced by the 20th century from one of the most populous groups in California to a pitiful remnant,...  Read More >>

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This text takes a look at work in the 20th century, with accounts from a variety of people about their jobs.  Read More >>

I Have Spoken is a collection of American Indian oratory from the 17th to the 20th century, concentrating on speeches...  Read More >>

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