Books & Web Sites About: Oral History

Internet Resources

Baylor University, Oral History Workshop http://www.baylor.edu/oral_history/index.php?id=23560

St. Andrew's Episcopal School, The American Century Project http://www.americancenturyproject.org/

Indiana University, Center for the Study of History and Memory
http://www.indiana.edu/~cshm/

Oral History Association home page at Dickinson College http://www.dickinson.edu/oha/

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Southern Oral History Program
http://www.sohp.org/

Books and Other Print Resources

Baum, Willa K. Oral History for the Local Historical Society. 3rd ed., rev. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press, 1995.

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

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

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

Dunaway, David K., and Willa K. Baum, ed. Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology. 2^nd ed. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, c1996.

Everett, Stephen E. Oral History Techniques and Procedures. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1992. Available online at http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/oral.htm

Fletcher, William. Recording Your Family History: A Guide to Preserving Oral History with Video Tape, Audio Tape, Suggested Topics and Questions. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1986.

Frank, Benis M. A "Do-It-Yourself" Oral History Primer. Washington, D.C.: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 1982.

Havlice, Patricia Pate. Oral History: A Reference Guide and Annotated Bibliography. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1985.

Hoopes, James. Oral History: An Introduction for Students. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.

Hsieh-Yee, Ingrid. Organizing Audiovisual and Electronic Resources for Access: A Cataloging Guide. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, c2000.

Ives, Edward. The Tape Recorded Interview. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1980.

Jackson, Bruce. Fieldwork. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Lance, David. An Archive Approach to Oral History. London: Imperial War Museum, 1978.

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

Moss, William. Oral History Program Manual. New York: Praeger, 1974.

Neuenschwander, John A. Oral History and the Law. 2d. ed., rev. Denton, Tex.: Oral History Association, 1993.

Oral History Association. Oral History Evaluation Guidelines. Carlisle, Pa.: Dickinson College, 1989, rev. Sept. 2000. Available online at http://omega.dickinson.edu/organizations/oha/pub_eg.html

Ritchie, Donald A. Doing Oral History. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995.

Sitton, Thad, George L. Mehaffy, and O. L. Davis, Jr. Oral History: A Guide for Teachers (and Others). Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983.

Sommer, Barbara W. and Mary Kay Quinlan. "A Guide to Oral History Interviews." Technical Leaflet #210. American Association for State and Local History. Included in History News, Vol. 55, No. 3, Summer 2000.

Sommer, Barbara W. and Mary Kay Quinlan. The Oral History Manual. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 2002.

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

Thompson, Paul. The Voice of the Past: Oral History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Oral History Interview Guidelines. Washington, D.C.: The Museum, 1998. Available online at http://www.ushmm.org/archives/oralhist.pdf

Ward, Alan. A Manual of Sound Archive Administration. Brookfield, Vt.: Gower Publishing Co., c1990.

Whitman, Glenn. Dialogue with the Past: Engaging Students and Meeting Standards Through Oral History. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2004.

Yow, Valerie Raleigh. Recording Oral History: A Practical Guide for Social Scientists. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 1994.