Doing Oral History 2/e
A Practical Guide
1st Edition
Published on 7. July 2005
290 pages
978-0-19-803513-8 (ISBN)
Description
Doing Oral History, originally published in 1994, has become one of the premier sources in the field of oral history. The book contains chapters on the discipline of oral history, especially as it relates to public history, starting an oral history project, including funding, staffing, equipment, processing, and legal concerns, conducting interviews, using oral history in research and writing, including publishing, videotaping oral history, preserving oral history in archives in libraries, teaching oral history, and presenting oral history through community history, family interviewing, museum exhibits, radio, and computer media. Appendices include sample legal release forms and information on oral history organizations. The author has incorporated new trends and scholarship, updated and expanded the bibliography and appendices, and added a new chapter on the internet.
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Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction and Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER 1 An Oral History of Our Time
- Memory and Oral History
- Public History and Oral History
- CHAPTER 2 Setting Up an Oral History Project
- Funding and Staffing
- Equipment
- Processing
- Legal Concerns
- Archiving and the Internet
- CHAPTER 3 Conducting Interviews
- Preparation for the Interview
- Setting up the Interview
- Conducting the Interview
- Concluding the Interview
- CHAPTER 4 Using Oral History in Research andWriting
- Oral Evidence
- Publishing Oral History
- CHAPTER 5 Videotaping Oral History
- Setting and Equipment
- Preserving and Using the Video Recordings
- CHAPTER 6 Preserving Oral History in Archives and Libraries
- Managing Oral History Collections
- Sound Recordings
- Digitizing Oral Archives
- Donated Interviews
- Legal Considerations
- Public Programs
- CHAPTER 7 Teaching Oral History
- Oral History in Elementary and Secondary Schools
- Oral History in Undergraduate and Graduate Education
- Institutional Review Boards
- CHAPTER 8 Presenting Oral History
- Community History
- Family Interviewing
- Therapeutic Uses of Oral History
- Museum Exhibits
- Radio and Oral History
- Oral History on Stage
- CD-ROM and the Internet
- APPENDIX 1 Principles and Standards of the Oral History Association
- APPENDIX 2 Sample Legal Release Forms
- Notes and References
- Selected Bibliography
- Internet Resources
- Index
