Oral History

***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes...

Entering the Frame is the first complete study of the cinema of Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, pioneers of archival and found-footage f...

This book is rooted in the authors experience as an interviewer and researcher in the Mauthausen Survivors Documentation Project the biggest Europ...

*Highly Commended by the British Records Association for the 2019 Janette Harley Prize* In September 1943, at the height of World War II, the Aege...

The year 1968 witnessed one of the great upheavals of the twentieth century, as social movements shook every continent. Across the Global North, pe...

***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes...

A groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global historyPick up almost any book on early and medieval world hist...

There has been extensive research into the impact of the Holocaust on the children of survivors who immigrated to the US and Israel. But very littl...

A groundbreaking history that puts early and medieval West Africa in a global context Pick up almost any book on early and medieval world history ...

As debate continues about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and its root causes simmer, Palestinian refugees have become increasingly invisible. Voi...

Someday,” Candelaria Garcia said to the author, “you will get all the stories.” It was a tall order in Magdalena, New Mexico, a once booming fronti...

Although historians today turn increasingly to oral tradition as a source of data on the history of non-literate peoples, Paul Irwin cautions them ...

As uncontrolled development forces crises in the natural world, deeply ingrained human connections with the earth are changing. Oral history's prov...

What role does memory play in migrants’ adaption to the emotional challenges of migration? How are migrant selfhoods remade in relation to changing...

After the Restoration, parliamentarians continued to identify with the decisions to oppose and resist crown and established church. This was despit...

Life history and the Irish migrant experience offers a fresh perspective on the significance of England’s largest post-war migrant group for curren...

History students read a lot. They read primary sources. They read specialized articles and monographs. They sometimes read popular histories. And t...

Thousands of young Jews were orphaned by the Nazi genocide in the German-occupied Soviet Union and struggled for survival on their own. This book w...

Between 500,000 to 2 million people died in the Cultural Revolution. Yet a silence remains as to why. Over eleven years in Mao’s China, an all-out...

The moorlands of Gascony are often considered one of the most dramatic examples of top-down rural modernization in nineteenth-century Europe. From ...