Select Oral History Bibliography

Books and Pamphlets

Allen, Barbara, and William Lynwood Montell. From Memory to History: Using Oral Sources in Local Historical Research. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1981.

Baum, Willa K. Transcribing and Editing Oral History. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1977.

Brecher, Jeremy. History from Below: How to Uncover and Tell the Story of Your Community, Association, or Union. New Haven, Conn.: Commonwork Pamphlets/Advocate Press, 1986.

Brown, Cynthia Stokes. Like It Was: A Complete Guide to Writing Oral History. New York: Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 1988.

Davis, Cullom, Kathryn Back, and Kay MacLean. Oral History: From Tape to Type. Chicago: American Library Association, 1977.

Dunaway, David K., and Willa K. Baum, eds. Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History in cooperation with the Oral History Association, 1984.

Everett, Stephen E. Oral History Techniques and Procedures. Washington: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1992.

Frisch, Michael. A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990.

Grele, Ronald J. Envelopes of Sound: The Art of Oral History. Revised edition. New York: Praeger, 1991.

Hoffman, Alice M. and Howard S. Hoffman. Archives of Memory: A Soldier Recalls World War II. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1991.

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 Fieldworkers in Folklore and Oral History. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1980.

Jeffrey, Jaclyn, and Glenace Edwall, eds. Memory and History: Essays on Recalling and Interpreting Human Experience. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1994.

Matters, Marion. Oral History Cataloging Manual. Chicago: The Society of American Archivists, 1995.

Mishler, Elliot G. Research Interviewing: Context and Narrative. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986.

Nathan, Harriet. Critical Choices in Interviews: Conduct, Use, and Research Role. Berkeley, Calif.: Institute of Governmental Studies, 1986.

Neuenschwander, John A. Oral History and the Law. Revised ed. Albuquerque: Oral History Association, Pamphlet No. 1, 1993.

Oral History Evaluation Guidelines. Los Angeles: Oral History Association, Pamphlet No. 3, 1992.

Oral History Index. Westport, Conn.: Meckler, 1990.

Portelli, Alessandro. The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991.

Ritchie, Donald R. Doing Oral History. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1994.

Schorzman, Terri A., ed. A Practical Introduction to Video History: The Smithsonian Institution and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Experiment. Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1993.

Smith, Allen, ed. Directory of Oral History Collections. Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryz Press, 1987.

Stielow, Frederick J. The Management of Oral History Sound Archives. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Stricklin, David, and Rebecca Sharpless, eds. The Past Meets the Present: Essays on Oral History. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1988.

Thompson, Paul. Oral History: The Voice of the Past. Revised Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Vansina, Jan. Oral Tradition as History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.


Articles

Blatti, Jo. "Public History and Oral History," Journal of American History 77 (September 1990): 615-25.

Blatz, Perry K. "Craftsmanship and Flexibility in Oral History: A Pluralistic Approach to Methodology and Theory," The Public Historian 12 (Fall 1990): 7-22.

Clark, E. Culpepper, Michael J. Hyde, and Eva N. McMahan. "Communication in the Oral History Interview: Investigating Problems of Interpreting Oral Data," International Journal of Oral History 1 (February 1980): 28-40.

Frank, Benis M. "Oral History for the Military Collector and Historian," Military Collector & Historian 37 (Winter 1985): 188-89.

Freund, Alexander, and Laura Quilici, "Exploring Myths in Women's Narratives: Italian and German Immigrant Women in Vancouver, 1947-1961," BC Studies (Spring-Summer 1995): 159-81.

Grele, Ronald J. "On Using Oral History Collections: An Introduction," The Journal of American History 74 (September 1987): 570-78.

Moss, William W. "Oral History: An Appreciation," American Archivist 40 (October 1987): 429-39.

"OHR Cumulative Index, 1973-1995, Vols. 1-22," Oral History Review 23 (Summer 1996): 68-191.

Ritchie, Donald A., Holly Cowan Shulman, Richard S. Kirkendall, and Terry Birdwhistle. "Interviews as Historical Evidence: A Discussion of New Standards of Documentation and Access," History Teacher 24 (February 1991): 223-38.

Soffer, Jonathan. "Oral History and the History of American Foreign Policy," Journal of American History 82 (September 1995): 607-16.