Oral history

Crossing Cultures: Oral History and Public History by Jill Liddington and Graham Smith, Oral History Society Abstract: Public history takes a past stretching from yesterday right back to prehistory; its concerns lie with the processes by which those parts are...

On the Other Foot: Oral History Students as Narrators by Stephen Solan, the Oral History Review Abstract: An understudied element of the oral history exchange is the experience of a narrator during the interview. Discussions of this topic in the literature on oral...

Four Paradigm Transformations in Oral History by Allistar Thomson, The Oral History Review Abstract: This paper reviews critical developments in the international history of oral history and outlines four paradigmatic revolutions in theory and practice: the postwar...

Community oral history: where we have been, where we are going by Linda Shopes, Oral History Society Abstract: This article is a slightly revised version of Linda Shopes' keynote address to the Oral History Society's 2014 conference in Manchester, UK. In it she...

Crisis Oral History focuses on the intersection of recent events and individual or community trauma and memory in direct response to a societal crisis, including but not limited to: wars, natural disasters, repression of political, economic, or social identity, and...

The Oral History Association (OHA) defines oral history as "a field of study and a method of gathering, preserving and interpreting the voices and memories of people, communities, and participants in past events." Oral history is both the oldest form of history,...