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Section 3: Analyzing Oral HistoriesDirectionsNow you will analyze excerpts of oral histories collected by the Federal Writers' Project. You can find complete versions of these oral histories, and many more interviews in the on-line American Memory collection, American Life Histories, 1936-1940.In your group, choose one of the Primary Source Sets below. Read as many excerpts as your teacher assigns. In your group discuss and record answers to the questions that accompany each interview. When you have finished answering questions, as a group select a research topic related your primary source set that you want to investigate further. Your group might want to investigate a different aspect of the topic during the same time period, or investigate the same topic in another time period. Once your group has chosen a topic for further research, go ahead to Background Research for Oral History Interviews.
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