Methods and Theory

Ethics/Legal Issues

Journals

Videos

Selected Examples of Oral History Texts




SOHP Bibliography

Methods and Theory
Clifford, James. "Notes on Field(notes)," Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology, ed. Roger Sanjek. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.

Dunaway, David K. and Willa K. Baum, ed. Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology. American Association for State and Local History Book Series. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 1996.

Forrest, John and Elisabeth Jackson. "Get Real: Empowering the Student through Oral History." Oral History Review 18 (Spring 1990): 29-44.

Frisch, Michael. A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. Albany: SUNY Press, 1990.

Gluck, Sherna Berger, and Daphne Patai, eds. Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History. New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc., 1991.

Hoopes, James. Oral History: An Introduction for Students. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.

Ives, Edward D. The Tape-Recorded Interview: A Manual for Fieldworkers in Folklore and Oral History. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1995, 2nd edition.

Perks, Robert and Alistair Thomson. The Oral History Reader. New York: Routledge, 1998.

Portelli, Alessandro. The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History. Albany: SUNY Press, 1991.

Ritchie, Donald A. Doing Oral History. New York: Twayne, 1995.

Slim, Hugo and Paul Thompson. Listening for a Change: Oral Testimony and Community Development. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1995.

Thompson, Paul. The Voice of the Past: Oral History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, 1988.

Yow, Valerie Raleigh. Recording Oral History: A Practical Guide for Social Scientists. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 1994.

Ethics/Legal Issues
American Anthropological Association, Revised Principles of Professional Responsibility, 1990. Ethics and the Profession of Anthropology: Dialogue for a New Era, ed. Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, pp. 274-279. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.

Graves, William, III, and Mark A. Shields. "Rethinking Moral Responsibility in Fieldwork," Ethics and the Profession of Anthropology: Dialogue for a New Era, ed. Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, pp. 132-151. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.

Neuenschwander, John N. Oral History and the Law. Denton, TX: Oral History Association, 1985.

Oral History Association. Principles and Standards of the Oral History Association. Los Angeles: Oral History Association, 1992.

Journals
International Journal of Oral History (1980- ). Mecklen Publishing, 520 Riverside Ave., P.O. Box 405, Saugatuck Station, Westport, CT 06880.

Journal of American History (1964- ). The Organization of American Historians, 112 North Bryan St., Bloomington, IN 47408. (Beginning with volume 74, September 1989, the JAH periodically publishes a section on oral history, edited by Michael Frisch and Linda Shopes.)

Oral History: The Journal of the Oral History Society (1972- ). Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Colchester, Essex, England.

Oral History Review. Journal of the Oral History Association. Published twice yearly by the University of California Press, Journals Division, 2120 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94720; journals@ucop.edu . In its 26th volume in 1999, the OHR began publication in 1973.

The Public Historian. (1978- ) Graduate Program in Public Historical Studies, Dept. of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.

Videos
Ives, Edward D. (Sandy). An Oral Historian's Work. Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History, South Stevens Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469.

Long, Jennifer N. History From the Living: The Organization and Craft of Oral History. Grin Productions, 1998. 80 Divison Street, Newport, RI 02840.

T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History. You've Got To Hear This Story: A Video On How To Do Oral History Interviews. Louisiana State University, 1998. T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History, 226 Middleton Library, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803.

Selected Examples of Oral History Texts
Ball, Edward. Slaves in the Family. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998.

Bamberger, Bill, and Cathy Davidson. Closings: The Life and Death of an American Factory. New York: W.W. Norton and DoubleTake Books, 1998.

Brodkin, Karen. Caring by the Hour: Women, Work, and Organizing at Duke Medical Center. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.

Brown, Wesley, and Amy Ling, eds. Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land. New York: Persea, 1991.

Cecelski, David. Along Freedom Road: Hyde County, North Carolina and the Fate of Black Schools in the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

Davis, Marilyn. Voices/American Dreams: An Oral History of Mexican Immigration to the United States. New York: Henry Holt, 1990.

Egerton, John. Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Eller, Cynthia. "Oral History as Moral Discourse: Conscientious Objectors and the Second World War." Oral History Review 18 (Spring 1990): 45-75.

Federal Writers' Project. These Are Our Lives. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1939; reprint, New York: Norton, 1975.

Grundy, Pamela. You Always Think of Home: A Portrait of Clay County, Alabama. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991.

Hall, Jacquelyn, James Leloudis, Robert Korstad, Mary Murphy, Lu Ann Jones, and Christopher B. Daly. Like a Family: The Making of A Southern Cotton Mill World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000, 2nd ed.

Jones, Lu Ann. "Voices of Southern Agricultural History," International Annual of Oral History 1990. ed. Ronald J. Grele, pp. 135-144. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.

____________. "Talking in Class: The Stories of North Carolina Teachers." North Carolina Literary Review 7 (1998): 51-71.

Love, Spencie. One-Blood: The Death and Resurrection of Charles R. Drew. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Nabakov, Peter. Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1494-1992. New York: Viking, 1991.

Payne, Charles. I've Got the Light of the Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995,

Rosengarten, Theodore. All God's Dangers: the Life of Nate Shaw. New York: Vintage Books, 1984, 2nd ed.

Rymer, Russ. American Beach: A Saga of Race, Wealth, and Memory. New York: Harper Collins, 1998.

Stack, Carol B. Call to Home: African Americans Reclaim the Rural South. New York: BasicBooks, c. 1996.

Terkel, Studs. Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do. New York: Pantheon Books, 1972.

Youth of the Rural Organizing and Cultural Center. Minds Stayed on Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Rural South. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991.

 

 

 




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