Learn more about lloyd cutler, jack kemp, congressional affairs, and speechwriting. By showing how national or international events affected the lives of individuals, oral history adds a personal dimension to the study of the past. We hope that the smithsonian folklife and oral history interviewing guide inspires you to turn to members of your own family and community as key sources of. Through dynamic, recorded interviews, oral history preserves the stories of individuals who helped create the fabric of history and whose lives, in turn, were shaped by the people, places, events, and ideas of their day. Oral history collection the state historical society of. Principles and best practices oral history association. In this interview, she vividly describes life in richland during the manhattan project.
Pdf on apr 22, 2007, tiiu jaago and others published oral history and life stories as. Roberts champions the role of women in local history, including leona marshall libbys work on the b reactor. It also requires a solid grounding in the principles and protocols of. Oral history project design columbia university libraries. Project muse phenomenology and the problems of oral history.
Written by linda shopes, this guide presents an overview of oral history and ways historians use it, tips on questions to ask when reading or listening to oral history interviews, a sample. The vietnam center and sam johnson vietnam archive. The vietnam center and sam johnson vietnam archive oral history project seeks to preserve the history of the vietnam war era through the spoken word of the participants. It can be autobiographical, a person telling their own life history, or biographical. To prepare to ask informed questions, interviewers should conduct background research on the person, topic, and larger context in both primary and secondary sources. Oral history depends upon human memory and the spoken word. Whether conducting their own research or developing an institutional project, first time interviewers and others involved in oral history projects should seek training. Oral history project guidelines only equality prepares us to accept difference in terms of other than hierarchy and subordination. A third approach is concerned with recording oral history interviews with family members about aspects of their lives and memories of other relatives and important events in the familys history. Please select advanced search to search full text of oral histories across the entire collection, as well as other features. The project is coordinated by jim hubbard and sarah schulman, with principal camera work by james wentzy and additional camerawork on the west coast by s. The means of collection can vary from taking notes by hand to elaborate electronic aural and. The oral history conveys a surfacelevel idea relevant to topics explored in class.
Planning a project 3 oral history projects may be carried out by one person or by a group of people and may result in a collection of interviews with an individual or with several people. Designing an oral history project phmc oral history. Barbara smith, interview by loretta ross, transcript of video recording, may 7, 2003, voices of feminism oral history project, sophia smith collection, pp. Voces oral history project is dedicated to recording and disseminating the stories of us latinas and latinos and weaving the many perspectives into our historical narrative at the national, state and local levels. The organizations mission is to present life storiesnot just illness narrativesto educate the public, humanize people with mental illness, and reduce. Managing an oral history project requires the qualities of any good manager. Fields in which you might be assigned an oral history paper include history, anthropology, and other disciplines that study the experiences of specific social groups such as women or ethnic groups. Sample questions to conduct an oral history interview. The goals of these fields affect the ways they use this kind of project. Oral history project i now developed a more structured and integrated oral history component within the course framework, as follows.
Geraldine miller, interview by loretta ross, transcript of video recording, october 14, 2004, voices of feminism oral history project, sophia smith collection, pp. An oral history, loosely defined, is the personal story of a persons life. Oral history project guidelines minnesota historical society. Doing your oral history project bournemouth university. Oral histories are not life histories, although some can be. Rather, oral history projects generally have a more specific aim to direct interview questions as opposed. Oral history projects are initiatives planned, designed, and executed by individuals or groups to create and preserve oral histories.
This toolkit is number 2 in a series produced by manchester histories as part of our heritage lottery funded hidden histories hidden historians project. Voices of feminism oral history project, sophia smith collection. At the outset of your project, ask yourself the following questions. A total of sixteen participants ten world war ii veterans, two military experts one retired, the other on. I found the oral history project stimulating and rewarding. Transcribing andor indexing oral history tapes creating verbatim transcription of tapes is ideal, but these are incredibly time consuming. Project design for community oral history projects mary marshall clark, columbia university center for oral history purpose the purpose of a project design, or blueprint, is to define the overarching as well as the specific goals of an oral history project. Introduction oral history refers both to a method of recording and. Oral history interview questions worksheet oral history is an interview that records a persons recollection of experiences, thoughts, and feelings about a specific event or a period of time. The miller centers latest presidential oral history project is open to the public. Oral history programs carry out oral history projects on multiple major topics or focus on one major theme. Voces oral history project is dedicated to recording and disseminating the stories of us latinas and latinos and weaving the many perspectives into our historical. When a key volunteer for the friends of georgetown history fogh oral history project was unable to conduct interviews that had been identified as part of the deliverables of a department of neighborhoods small and. Oral histories of the comfort women kim tokchin i have much to say to the korean government it was the middle of january or perhaps a little later, say the beginning of february, 1937.
What are the most important lessons youve learned in life. Oral history and readers theater project sometimes great projects are unplanned. The smithsonian folklife and oral history interviewing guide. Commission for unesco supported the project oral history sources as part of the cultural. The oral history conveys ideas relevant to topics explored. The assumption is that oral histories generate new research and historical understandings that, in turn, influence the research goals of the oral history project.
Pdf oral history and life stories as a research area in estonian. This material shall not be used for commercial purposes without the express written consent of the kokua hawaii oral history project. Sample questions to conduct an oral history interview please tell me your name, your birthdate, our relationship, and where we are. To browse the entire oral history center collection, please see the projects page. It is a great privilege to record someones life story and a great responsibility to care for that story in a. Texas tech university directory raiderlink az index. This manual includes tips on designing an oral history project. The miller center has conducted a number of special oral history projects and symposia. On the first saturday of each month the museum invites descendants to present to the public. Thus, oral history is valuable for present and future generations as an emerging discipline with considerable unity and practically useful.
The institute for oral history has recorded and preserved oral histories since. Our project has benefited very much from your comments. Its objective was to provide department of the army da oral history guidance for the growing number of historians tasked with conducting interviews. Established in 1996, the goal of the nasa johnson space center oral history project jsc ohp is to capture history from the individuals who first provided the country and the world with an avenue to space and the moon. Making sense of oral history offers a place for students and teachers to begin working with oral history as historical evidence. Phenomenology resists a brief, laymanfriendly definition, but it addresses the structures of consciousness, both of what we perceive and how we perceive it, and end page 22 advocates a bracketing or suspension of takenforgranted attitudes about reality in order to reconstruct a more accurate view of self and world. Voces oral history project the university of texas at austin. Programs may offer training and consultation services for the broader. My mum was rather surprised at how involved i got doing my project.
Project muse the schizophrenia oral history project by. As a potential participant in the sam johnson vietnam archive oral history project, you may be curious about what is involved with being interviewed. It is a great feeling when you commit yourself, your organization or your community to an oral history project. Provide students with background on the oral history, particularly its historic value as a primary source document.
Anyone from any country is welcome to participate in the oral history project. Part of our mission is to assist you in exploring oral history. Identify your narratorwho can tell interesting stories, who has lived through a unique time period, who can document an era for which little other information exists. Because oral history papers can vary a great deal according to their aims, make sure to develop a clear sense of your purpose. The assignment itself may specify quite clearly what kind of an oral history project you may do or leave many of the choices up to you. Roberts mentions local segregation, dust storms, the housing, social opportunities, and the challenges women faced in raising a family. Oral history project assessment rubric criteria emerging 1 progressing 2 accomplishing 3 exceeding 4 content the oral history does not convey information or ideas relevant to topics explored in class. Through the descendants oral history project we have connected with over 4,000 descendants of usct soldiers and collected over 200 filmed narratives. Oral historians or others responsible for planning the oral history project should choose potential narrators based on the relevance of their experiences to the subject at hand. Designing an oral history project oral history in the. In oral history projects, an interviewee recalls an event for an interviewer who records the recollections and creates a historical record.
Oral history goodpractice guidance 6 an oral history project does not necessarily entail the collection of new oral histories. Conclusion the oral history has its own research methodology to. Transcripts are in a pdf format and require a pdf viewer in order to be accessed. Oral history project, and are published with the permission of the interviewees for scholarly and educational purposes as determined by kokua hawaii oral history project. Oral history project assessment rubric teaching tolerance. This collection of oral histories portrays the lives of pioneers and early settlers in the closelyknit communities of alpine, blue, nutrioso, eagar, springerville, and luna, nm in the late 1800s and first half of the 1900s. The following is a brief synopsis of the steps and procedures involved in the interview process. In addition to the workshops that we offer to community groups, we are happy to provide this manual as a resource and guide to oral history interviewing. At hlf we welcome applications that enable access to, engage with and reinterpret oral history material that is already available in archives across the uk. Identify your narratorwho can tell interesting stories, who has lived through. Page 3 but it can easily be adapted for use in anything from a single interview to a research project involving a number of.
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