I dived into Abigail Perkiss’ Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey’s Forgotten Shore, after listening to a short podcast episode with the author about the book hosted by the New Books Network. I appreciated the conversation for the context it helped provide about the oral histories featured in the book and more specifically, how her own …
Monthly Archives: October 2025
Talking through trauma.
While every week of this course thus far has provided me with the opportunity to think about the practice of oral history alongside my own experience as a journalist, this week’s reading of Lynn Abrams’ Oral History Theory put it in most stark relief. The chapter on trauma in particular brought up a lot of …