Oral History

Dreams of steady employment in the mining sector led thousands of Ukrainian immigrants to northern Ontario in the early 1900s. As a child, Stacey Z...

This book explores the entangled relationship between marching and political ceremonies for the consolidation of the nation-state. The main questio...

The concept that oral history can give voice to people or allow hidden voices to become part of history is one of its most celebrated achievements....

Histories of voice are often written as accounts of greatness: great statesmen, notable rebels, grands discours, and famous exceptional speakers an...

This book thematizes the tension between education, politics, and religion in Norway after the Second World War, with an emphasis on the years betw...

This open access book commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Special Olympics (1968-2018). This is the fourth volume of the first oral history ab...

Angela Zusman offers an informative guidebook with step-by-step directions for planning and implementing intergenerational oral history projects, u...

Winner of the Stella PrizeWinner of the Magarey Medal for BiographyWinner of the Queensland Literary AwardTracker is a collective memoir of the Abo...

Increasingly, as we come to terms with what a cesspit the internet really is, there has been a revival of interest in various artefacts once though...

This book details the perspectives of women of African ancestry who witnessed a twentieth-century uprising in St. Kitts. They chronicle the story o...

Nearly thirty years ago, Monika Vrzgulová took part in the very first oral history research project aimed at Holocaust survivors in Slovakia. That ...

This book is about how Australians have responded to stories about suffering and injustice in Australia, presented in a range of public media, incl...

This book is an oral history project and a vivid portrait of the civil rights struggle in one Mississippi county. It tells the story of the Holmes ...

Engaging and interrogating the idea of a Global Africa, this book examines how African literary and cultural productions have changed over the year...

Bonzer. Arvo. Tucker. Sickie. Pash. Illywhacker.There are plenty of words to choose from to tell the story of Australia from iconic Australianisms...

Counting on Computers: New Information Technologies and Curricular Change in East Germany, 1960s to 1990 is a compelling exploration of socialist a...

The unusually long version of West African Mande epic transcribed and translated for this book is an extravagant demonstration of the extremes to w...

Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies guides the reader through the process of sourcing a relevant oral history archive for linguis...

Wedding, Gender, and Performance in Ancient Greece traces the wedding song tradition, its imagery, and its tropes as a genre that became crystalliz...

In the past sixty years, oral history has moved from the periphery to the mainstream of academic studies and is now employed as a research tool by ...

Learning behind Bars is an oral history of former Irish republican prisoners in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland between 1971, the year...

As the COVID-19 pandemic struck peoples throughout the world, it disproportionately devastated Native American communities. The inequalities, dispa...

A tasty oral historyIn 2018, Janis Thiessen, Kimberley Moore, and collaborator Kent Davies refashioned a used food truck into a mobile oral history...

A landmark reissue of Studs Terkels classic microcosm of America, with a new foreword by the Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist and co-creator of the...

George Ewart Evans, who wrote the classic Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay, was one of the pioneers of oral history. This anthology is drawn from h...

This book is an oral history of the punk scene in Belfast from the mid-1970s to the mid-80s. It explores what it was like to be a punk in a city sh...

After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visitin...

The First Black Marines: An Oral History tells the extraordinary stories of the men who made history as the first African Americans to serve in the...

Corpus Linguistics for Oral History takes a step-by-step approach to presenting how corpus linguistics tools and techniques can be applied to oral ...