Oral History

An introduction about the Women's Land Army in the First and Second World Wars is followed by reminiscences, recorded recently by the editor, of te...

The United States is embroiled in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan - wars that seem as far from our understanding as they are distant from our sho...

Telling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousa...

Just in time for the one-hundredth anniversary of Miami Beach, It Happened in Miami, the Magic City: An Oral History features nearly seventy fabulo...

During the Great Depression, Henry Alsberg, a journalist with a passion for social justice, directed the Federal Writers' Project, a New Deal pr...

During World War II, Guam was the only American territory where Japan administered the occupied local people. Organic integration was the purpos...

The community of East Harlem in New York City lays claim to a rich and culturally diverse history. Once home to 35 ethnicities and 27 languages,...

In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City boroughbefore, during, and after the ...