ORAL
HISTORY: A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Prepared by Linda Shopes
Pennsylvania Historical
& Museum Commission
MANUALS
Baum,
Willa K. Oral History for the Local Historical Society, 3rd ed.
Nashville: AASLA, 1987.
----------. Transcribing
and Editing Oral History.
Nashville: AASLH, 1977.
Hoopes,
James. Oral History: An Introduction for Students. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1979.
Ives,
Edward D. The Tape Recorded Interview: A Manual for Field Workers in Folklore and
Oral History.
Knoxville: University of
Tennessee Press, 1974.
Jackson,
Bruce.
Fieldwork. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
Mercier,
Laurie and Madeline Buckendorf. Using Oral History in Community History
Projects. Los
Angeles: Oral History Association, 1992.
Neuenschwander,
John H. Oral History and the Law, rev. ed.
Albuquerque: Oral History
Association,
1993.
Oblinger,
Carl. Interviewing the People of Pennsylvania. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania
Historical & Museum
Commission, 1978.
Ritchie,
Donald A. Doing Oral History. New
York: Twayne Publishers, 1995.
Schorzman,
Terri A. A Practical Introduction to Videohistory: The Smithsonian Institution and Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation Experiment. Melbourne, Fla.: Krieger
Publishing Co., 1993.
Yow,
Valerie Raleigh. Recording Oral History: A Practical Guide for Social Scientists. Thousand Oaks,
Calif.: Sage Publications, 1994.
USING AND INTERPRETING ORAL
HISTORY MATERIALS
Allen,
Barbara, and Linwood Montell. From Memory to History: Using Oral Sources in Local History Research. Nashville:
AASLA, 1981.
Coles,
Robert. Doing Documentary Work. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Dunaway,
David K. And Willa K. Baum, eds. Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Reader, 2nd ed..
Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publishers, 1996.
Frisch,
Michael. A Shared Authority: Essays on
the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History.
Albany: SUNY Press. 1991.
Grele,
Ronald. Envelopes of Sound: The Art of
Oral History, 2nd ed.
New York: Praeger, 1991.
Gluck,
Sherna and Daphne Patai. Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History. New York:
Routledge, 1991.
Jeffrey,
Jaclyn and Glenace Edwall, eds. Memory and History: Essays on Recalling and Interpreting
Experience. Lanham,
Md.: University Press of America (for Institute for Oral History), 1991.
Kuhn,
Cliff and Marjorie L. McLellan, eds. Magazine of History, v. 11, no. 3
{Srping 1997}; special "oral
history" theme issue of the
magazine; published by the Organization of American Historians and
directed at secondary and
undergraduate teachers.
Perks,
Robert, and Alistair Thomson. The Oral History Reader. New York:
Routledge, 1998.
Portelli,
Alessandro. The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History.
Albany: SUNY Press, 1991.
----------. The
Battle of Valle Giulia: Oral History and the Art of Dialogue. Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 1997.
Shopes,
Linda. "Oral History and Community
Involvement: The Baltimore Neighborhood Heritage
Project," in Presenting the Past: Essays on History and
the Public. Susan Porter Benson,
Stephen
Brier, and Roy Rosenzweig, eds. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.
Thompson,
Paul. The Voices of the Past: Oral History, 2nd ed. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1988.
See
also the September issue of the Journal
of American History, which since 1987 has included short essays on oral
history as it relates to various topics and themes in United States history.
DOING/USING ORAL HISTORY IN
THE CONTEXT OF A COMMUNITY HISTORY PROJECT
Felt,
Thomas E. Researching, Writing, and Publishing Local History, 2nd
ed. Nashville: AASLH, 1982.
Kyvig,
David, and Myron A. Marty. Nearby History: Exploring the Past around
You. Nashville: AASLH,
1984. This publication is the first in a series of technical manuals
published by AASLH detailing
how to research specific aspects of local history,
including schools, houses and homes, public places, places of worship, and
businesses.
Metcalf,
Fay D., and Matthew T. Downey. Using Local History in the Classroom. Nashville:
AASLH,
1982.
Weitzman,
David. Underfoot: An Everyday Guide to Exploring the American Past. New
York:
Schribner's, 1976.
LOCAL HISTORY PLACED WITHIN
BROADER HISTORICAL CONTEXT
American
Social History Project Who Built America?, Vols. I &
2. New York: Pantheon Books, 1989,
1992.
Bender,
Thomas. Community and Social Change in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
1982.
Foner,
Eric, ed. The New American History, 2nd ed. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1997.
Gardner,
James B., and George Rollie Adams, eds. Ordinary People and Everyday Life:
Perspectives on
The New Social History.
Nashville: AASLH, 1983.
Gerber,
David A. "Local and Community
History: Some Cautionary Remarks on an Idea Whose Time Has
Returned." History
Teacher. Vol. XII (November 1979),
7-30.
Hanly,
Alice. Love across the Color Line: The
Letter of Alice Hanley to Channing Lewis.
Helen
Lefkowitz Horowitz and Kathy Peiss, eds. Amherst:
University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.
Kammen,
Carol. On Doing Local History: Reflections on What Local Historians Do, Why,
and What It
Means. Nashville: AASLH, 1986.
----------,
ed. The
Pursuit of Local History: Readings on Theory and Practice. Thousand Oaks,
Calif.: AltaMira Press and AASLH,
1996.
Russo,
David. Families and Communities: A New
View of American History.
Nashville: AASLH, 1974.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
Oral
History Association
Dickinson
College
Carlisle,
PA 17013
·
Holds
an annual conference; 2001 conference is in St. Louis, MO, October 16-21.
·
Publishes
the biannual Oral History Review
·
Publishes
a triannual newsletter
·
Publishes
technical manuals on oral history
·
Maintains
a Web site at <http://www.dickinson.edu/organizations/oha/>
·
Sponsors
H-Oralhist, a listserv affiliated of H-NET; to subscribe, send the following
e-mail message (with no subject line) to <listserv@h-net.msu.edu>: SUBSCRIBE H-ORALHIST firstname lastname
affiliation (if you have an automatic signature file, you will need to delete
it temporarily). H-Oralhist also has an
excellent Web site with many good links at http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~oralhist.
Oral
History in the Mid-Atlantic Region (OHMAR)
PO
Box 2351
Gallaudet
University
Washington,
DC 20002
·
Holds
spring and fall meetings; Fall 2000
meeting is at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, November 4th;
Spring 2001 meeting is in Annapolis, Maryland, April 6th.
·
Publishes
a triannual newsletter
·
Sponsors
oral history workshops in the mid-Atlantic region