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4 unusual facts about oral history


Oral history

At that time the Italian historian Alessandro Portelli and his associates began to study the role that memory itself, whether accurate or faulty, plays in the themes and structures of oral history.

A more complete account of the history of oral history in Britain and Northern Ireland can be found at "Making Oral History" on the Institute of Historical Research's website.

In 1946, David P. Boder, a professor of psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, traveled to Europe to record long interviews with "displaced persons"—most of them Holocaust survivors.

Rod Kedward

Oral history formed a central part of Kedward's historical approach, as he has interviewed hundreds of ordinary Frenchmen and women about their experience of being in the Resistance.


Birmingham History Galleries

For instance, local poet, Benjamin Zephaniah’s typewriter can be seen in the gallery alongside an oral history in which he talks about growing up and living in Birmingham and how this influenced his career.

Clarence Faulk

A source of oral history on the general Ruston area, Faulk was considered an expert on the 1934 ambush in Bienville Parish of the bandits Bonnie and Clyde, having covered the scene as the young publisher of the Ruston Daily Leader.

David King Dunaway

He is a national radio producer/podcaster, the biographer of Pete Seeger, and a national expert in American studies specializing in oral history, folk music, and Route 66.

Fred J. Lincoln

Lincoln was one of the interviewees in Legs McNeil's oral history, The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry (Regan Books, 2006).

Rose Bird

In a 1998 oral history interview, Stanley Mosk explained that Bird was a bright and intelligent judge but a terrible administrator (one of the Chief Justice's major responsibilities); she did bizarre things like forcing all the Associate Justices to make appointments just to talk to her for any reason.

Stephen F. Kelly

He has written a number of biographies of football managers including Bill Shankly, Sir Alex Ferguson, Kenny Dalglish and Gerard Houllier as well as an oral history of Liverpool Football Club.

StoryCorps

Another inspiration for the organization was oral historian Studs Terkel, who cut the ribbon at the opening of StoryCorps’ first recording booth in Grand Central Terminal.

Voices of war

Voices of war: Australians tell their stories from World War I to the present (2006) is a telling of the oral history of the Australian experience of war edited by Michael Caulfield.

Wampum

Shinnecock oral history ascribed the wampum market demise to a deadly red tide that decimated the whelk and quahog populations, though this cannot be true because a reduction in whelk and quahog populations would increase the scarcity and value of wampum.


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Alfonso Ortiz

His San Juan Pueblo, Oral History tapes and papers are held at Princeton.

Annie Elizabeth Delany

Annie Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany (3 September 1891 – 25 September 1995) was an American dentist and civil rights pioneer who was the subject, along with her elder sister Sarah "Sadie" Delany, of the New York Times bestselling oral history, Having Our Say, written by journalist Amy Hill Hearth.

Anthony McIntyre

McIntyre was involved with the Boston College oral history project on the Irish troubles, conducting interviews with former IRA members such as Brendan Hughes and Dolours Price and loyalists such as David Ervine.

Baylor University Institute for Oral History

In 1971, Dr. Charlton received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop undergraduate and graduate curriculum offerings in oral history.

Buddhist Women's Association

Although occasionally misunderstood or stereotyped by modern Buddhist scholars as a subservient and outdated identity for ethnic Buddhist women, the BWA in fact is important for the vitality of temple sanghas, particularly in the preservation of Japanese and Japanese-American Buddhist traditions, and oral history.

Bunny McBride

Her articles appeared in various US newspapers and magazines, including the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, International Wildlife, Travel & Leisure, Sierra, Yankee Magazine, Downeast, and Reader's Digest. From 1981 onwards, she was also actively involved in oral history and community development projects with Micmac Indians in Maine.

Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil

There are also 1.1 thousand oral history interviews, with over 6 thousand hours and covering testimonials by social actors in politics, the Brazilian Armed Forces, science, technocracy, economy, journalism, the intellectual realm, the law, the third sector and grassroots movements.

Cluster Publications

Since 1994, the most important themes of South African life have been reflected in its publication list: contextual biblical hermeneutics, gender issues, HIV and AIDS, oral history, philosophical and ethical issues, significant figures in South African church history, and socio-political issues.

Ebrié

Their oral history relates that the tribe was originally located to the northeast, near the lands of the Ashanti in Ghana, but that they fled to the south after a great defeat in battle by a neighboring tribe.

Keith Gessen

In 2005, Dalkey Archive Press published Gessen's translation of Svetlana Alexievich's Tchernobylskaia Molitva (Voices from Chernobyl), an oral history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Legs McNeil

In Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, McNeil said that the magazine was inspired by two chief influences: cartoonist and editor Harvey Kurtzman, and The Dictators' debut album The Dictators Go Girl Crazy!, indicating that the magazine was started strictly so that its creators could "hang out with the Dictators".

Louis Shotridge

Berman, Judith (2004) "'Some Mysterious Means of Fortune': A Look at North Pacific Coast Oral History." In: Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions, ed.

Lowell D. Holmes Museum of Anthropology

It blends oral history and multimedia to describe the observations of missionaries among the Duna, Hewa and Enga of Papua New Guinea.

Mississippi River Band of Chippewa Indians

According to the oral history of the Mississippi Chippewa, they were primarily of the southern branch of Ojibwe who spread from the "Fifth Stopping Place" of Baawiting (Sault Ste. Marie region) along Lake Superior's southern shores until arriving at the "Sixth Stopping Place" of the St. Louis River.

Newton Gang

Notable enough for the 1924 train robbery near Rondout, Illinois (the world's largest at the time), the brothers gained a second round of fame in retirement, when they participated in a 1975 documentary film, and then a more in-depth oral history project that eventually was published in book form, possibly one of the clearest records of a criminal career of the period, as told by the participants.

Robert Manning

Robert Mannyng (1275–1338), monk and pioneer of recording English oral history

Roy P. Johnson

He captured moments in frontier history at a time when oral history and personal reminiscence could still fill in the blank spaces left by official histories and biographies, producing what remains one of the primary sources for Red River Valley history.

Rukidi IV of Toro

According to oral history, Prince Olimi Kaboyo Kasunsunkwanzi, son of the King of Bunyoro, annexed the southern part of his father's Kingdom in 1822 and founded what is known as Toro today.

Ruth Sergel

Voices of 9.11 – A video oral history archive with over 550 testimonies from survivors, witnesses and first responders in New York, Shanksville, PA, Washington DC and inside the Pentagon of the September 11 attacks recorded in private video booths to be published on-line.

Sarah Louise Delany

Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany (September 19, 1889 – January 25, 1999) was an African-American educator and civil rights pioneer who was the subject, along with her younger sister Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany, of the New York Times bestselling oral history, Having our Say, by journalist Amy Hill Hearth.

Steven W. Plattner

Plattner conducted oral history interviews with the project's key photographers—Clyde Hare, Harold Corsini, Esther Bubley, Russell Lee, James P. Blair, Richard Saunders, Elliott Erwitt, Sol Libsohn, and Arnold S. Eagle—and co-authored and edited Witness to the Fifties, published in 1999 with the help of a grant from the Howard Heinz Endowment.

Victor Andres Triay

In 2001 he was awarded the Samuel Proctor History Prize by the Florida Historical Society for his book, Bay of Pigs: An Oral History of Brigade 2506.

Wallace Terry

Wallace Houston Terry, II (April 21, 1938 - May 29, 2003) was an African-American journalist and oral historian, best known for his book about black soldiers in Vietnam, Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War (1984), which served as a basis for the 1995 crime thriller Dead Presidents.

William Glenn Terrell

On May 17, 1982, an Oral History Dinner remembering the contributions of Justice William Glenn Terrell was held as part of an initiative sponsored by Florida Governor Bob Graham.