Series: Practicing Oral History

It has been half a century since the last book that addressed how historical societies can utilise oral history. In this brief, practical guide, internationally known oral historian Barbara W. Sommer applies the best practices of contemporary oral historians to the projects that historical organisations of all sizes and sorts might develop. The book covers project personnel options, funding options,...

In addition to the problem of language, conducting oral histories with immigrant narrators often requires special considerations: past violence, cultural sensitivity, and lack of trust. Yet, these narrators are often witnesses to, or participants in, important historical events, or can describe otherwise-undocumented social phenomena. The first book to focus specifically on oral history practices with immigrant narrators, Practicing Oral History...

Story Bridges by Angela Zusman offers an informative guidebook with step-by-step directions for planning and implementing intergenerational oral history projects, using youth to interview elders. An expert on these programs, Zusman draws on her experiences and those of other oral historians to illustrate how community projects are organized, youthful historians located and trained, interviews conducted, and the project archived for...

It has been half a century since the last book that addressed how historical societies can utilise oral history. In this brief, practical guide, internationally known oral historian Barbara W. Sommer applies the best practices of contemporary oral historians to the projects that historical organisations of all sizes and sorts might develop. The book covers project personnel options, funding options,...