In Stories from Small Museums (2022), Fiona Candlin, Toby Butler, and Jake Watts use oral histories to chronicle small museums in the United Kingdom. This…
a practice in progress
In Stories from Small Museums (2022), Fiona Candlin, Toby Butler, and Jake Watts use oral histories to chronicle small museums in the United Kingdom. This…
In Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey’s Forgotten Shore, Abigail Perkiss of Kean University, New Jersey, employs oral history to explore how Hurricane Sandy affected New…
(Slightly updated to include less specific info!) This methodology statement serves as a rough outline of the steps, core beliefs, and concerns that will guide…
Lynn Abrams’s Oral History Theory introduces the notion that theoretical advances in oral history result from its practice. To think more deeply about oral history,…
Sherrie Tucker’s Swing Shift: “All-Girl” Bands of the 1940s seeks to challenge the dominant swing discourse, where all-women bands are infrequently mentioned, and to bridge…
This week, I checked out an interview with Lucy Belanger, which was a part of the Shoe Workers Oral History Project in Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, highlighted…
As I mentioned in my last post, I am interested in preservation, and am intrigued as to how oral histories can be best preserved. In…
Why have spoken history and oral tradition struggled to maintain credibility? This question remained with me through Ritchie’s article, “An Oral History of Our Time,”…