Achieving the Promise of Oral History in a Digital Age
Doug Boyd
The phrase “digital revolution” is frequently used in both popular and academic discourse to describe the multiple contexts of our increasingly electronically enriched and ...
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The Atlantic Northeast
Neal Salisbury
The Atlantic Northeast emerged as a distinctive region between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries. Its largest tribal groupings were the Abenaki, Mi’kmaq, Penobscot, and other Wabanaki ...
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Can Memory Be Collective?
Anna Green
This article explains the collectivity of memory. Memory, in all its guises, has been at the heart of historical inquiry over the past three decades. Cultural and social historians, ...
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Case Study: Opening Up Memory Space: The Challenges of Audiovisual History
Albert Lichtblau
The emergence of oral history was connected with a technical development—namely the possibility of recording human voices. The recording techniques developed rapidly. This article ...
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Case Study: Oral History and Democracy: Lessons from Illiterates
Mercedes Vilanova
This article focuses on case studies in oral history with the backdrop of democracy and lessons learnt form illiterates. The “discovery” of illiteracy and its defining characteristics ...
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Case Study: What is it That University-Based Oral History Can Do? The Berkeley Experience
Richard Cándida Smith
University-based oral history needs to undergo a transformation. The process of going out and interviewing people for first-hand knowledge of historical events is as old as the historical ...
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Doing Video Oral History
Brien R. Williams
Oral historians once tended to regard the sound recording of interviews as only the collecting stage of their enterprise. They considered the transcript as the authoritative document of ...
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The Dynamics of Interviewing
Mary Kay Quinlan
The focus of this article is the dynamics of oral history and the significance of interviewing while recording oral history. From the profound to the perfunctory, question-asking permeates ...
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Ethical Challenges in the Oral History of Medicine
Michelle Winslow and Graham Smith
Ethical challenges in the oral history of medicine are the essence of this article. It is a mark of the contribution of oral history to the history of medicine that studies located within ...
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Finding Slave Voices
Kathleen Hilliard
The aims of this article are twofold. First, it traces the broad contours of the historiography, examining the myriad ways in which scholars have come to incorporate the slave perspective ...
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