What does a scientist do when an experiment returns unexpected results? They can edit their conclusion as need be – something that historians both oral and conventional can and must do when a thesis is not supported by evidence. But what if the process of getting there – the method – proves more complicated than …
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For most of my life, I lived on Forsyth Street in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. By the time I was born, the LES was on the march to gentrification, and many of the immigrant families who once called its tenements home have long since left for greener (and less pricey) pastures. But institutions like Orchard …
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This week’s readings are primarily concerned with the history and development of oral history as a practice. First, two chapters of oral History: an Interdisciplinary Anthology provide insight from and about the originators of modern oral history oin the US, Allen Nevins and Louis Starr. Their perspective is on the early evolution of oral history …
Upon my first reading of both introductory chapters in Sommer & Quinlan’s The Oral History Manual and Donald Ritchie’s Doing Oral History, it’s clear that my preconceived notion of what oral history entails is both broader than reality and yet simultaneously insufficient to describe it. Prior to this class, I thought that “oral history” was …
Hello! My name is Eddie Glass, a second-year Masters student in History here at Temple University. My undergraduate degree, earned in 2018 from Allegheny College, was political science, although my career path since has diverged from that original idea. I have always had an intense interest in history, having started as a kid with one …
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