Oral History

What is the nature of Muslim-Jewish relations in Europe today? Based on qualitative interview data, this book explores narratives about Jews among ...

This book introduces lexomics, the use of computer-aided statistical analysis of vocabulary, to measure influence and integrate research from cogni...

This is a work of 11 self-contained chapters, one for each day of September before the attack on the World Trade Center in New York, each containin...

This carefully researched history draws on archival sources as well as a wealth of new interviews with on-the-ground activists, political actors, i...

In the time of the Troubles, when bombs blew through the night and soldiers prowled down the roads, Henry Glassie came to the Irish borderland to l...

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED S...

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED S...

In the 1950s and 60s, six young women left their families to join a strict enclosed order of nuns in Melbourne. They never left the convent except ...

Remembering Mass Violence breaks new ground in oral history, new media, and performance studies by exploring what is at stake when we attempt to re...

Inspired by the question of whats next? in the field of Canadian womens and gender history, this broadly historiographical volume represents a conv...

In this important new book, Paul T. Phillips argues that most professional historians aside from a relatively small number devoted to theory and m...

The first twenty-five years of life in post-socialist Europe have seen vast political, economic, and cultural changes, as societies that lived unde...

Few cultural activities speak more powerfully to international histories of the modern world than football. In the late nineteenth century, this ch...

Few cultural activities speak more powerfully to international histories of the modern world than football. In the late nineteenth century, this ch...

***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING***'Read this book. Don't put it off until you'll supposedly be strong enough and re...

In this insightful and provocative volume, Rameyreveals spirituals and slave songs to be a crucial element in American literature. This book shows ...

This oral history reader, designed to supplement texts on the second half of the U.S. history survey, features the words of ordinary people who des...

This book collects original research essays to explore the diverse uses of photographs and photography in oral history, from the use of photos as m...

Based on archival sources and oral history, this book  reconstructs a border-building process in Namibia that spanned more than sixty years. The pr...

Using first-person narratives collected through oral history interviews, this groundbreaking book collects black women's memories of their public a...

This book uses oral history methodology to record stories of people who experienced the brunt of racist forced removals in the city of Cape Town, S...

Immigrants from Pakistan, Egypt, India, and Palestine who were racially profiled and detained following the September 11 attacks tell their persona...

A headman of a remote Kelabit longhouse in Borneo is wrestling with recent changes caused by logging and roadbuilding. During this time of tension,...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA LANDMARK NEW ACCOUNT OF THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT DAY OF WW2, IN THE WORDS OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED IT**** 'Comprehe...

Condemned as a fascist putsch in the East and praised as a 'people's uprising' in the West, the uprising of 17 June 1953 shook East Germany. Drawin...

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Places to meet other LGBT people were much rarer in the 1970s and 80s than they are now, especially outside of big cities. This book takes us back ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA LANDMARK NEW ACCOUNT OF THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT DAY OF WW2, IN THE WORDS OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED IT**** 'Comprehe...

Based on extensive oral history interviews, Dreaming the New Woman uncovers the experiences of girls who attended missionary middle schools in Repu...

A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families Forty ...

Over a span of eighteen years, Lady Bird Johnson recorded forty-seven oral history interviews with Michael Gillette and his colleagues. These conve...

The Second World War is famed for being the conflict that changed the face of warfare, and it is the last that changed the face of the world. In ad...