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Thomas L. Charlton is professor of history at Baylor University. He is director of The Texas Collection library/archival center and author of Oral History for Texans (1981, 1985). Lois E. Myers is associate sirector of the Institute for Oral History at Baylor University. Rebecca Sharpless is assistant professor in the Department of History at Texas Christian University.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Looking for Vade Mecum
Part 2 I. Foundations
Chapter 3 1. The History of Oral History
Chapter 4 2. Oral History as Evidence
Part 5 II. Methodology
Chapter 6 3. Research Design and Strategies
Chapter 7 4. Legal and Ethical Issues in Oral History
Chapter 8 5. Oral History Interviews: From Inception to Closure
Chapter 9 6. Oral History and Archives: Documenting Context
Chapter 10 7. The Uneasy Page: Transcribing and Editing Oral History
Part 11 III. Theories
Chapter 12 8. Memory Theory: Personal and Social
Chapter 13 9. Aging, the Life Course, and Oral History: African American Narratives of Struggle, Social Change, and Decline
Chapter 14 10. A Conversation Analytic Approach to Oral History Interviewing
Chapter 15 11. Women's Oral History: Is It So Special?
Chapter 16 12. Narrative Theory
Part 17 IV. Applications
Chapter 18 13. Publishing Oral History: Oral Exchange and Print Culture
Chapter 19 14. Biography and Oral History
Chapter 20 15. Fractious Action: Oral History-Based Performance
Chapter 21 16. Oral History in Sound and Moving Image Documentaries
This handbook is an inspired combination of the practical and the theoretical. An essential companion for anyone interested in the multifarious, cross-disciplinary research movement that has come to be known as 'oral history.'
— Jacquelyn Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Given the range of academic disciplines embracing oral history, college and university libraries should give this book serious consideration. It belongs in the reference library of every oral history program.
— Choice Reviews
A simple conversation can be a key resource in gathering information about the past—yet obtaining, documenting, and preserving this information can be much more complicated. This compilation of essays by top historians dissects oral history, from its deeply rooted origins to its numerous modern applications.
— Museum News
The editors set out to collect essays that could serve as an introduction to the contemporary practice and theory of oral history and succeeded in assembling a guide to the state of the field... The <Handbook for Oral History chapters were written expressly for this book and with its goals in mind, giving this anthology relative thematic coherence... Indeed, among the volume's many strengths is its tendency to promote and extend oral history's most theoretical and practical questions.
— Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
Handbook of Oral History is...an essential purchase for oral historians in the United States....readers...will be stimulated by many insightful essays, and can take advantage of an excellent, consolidated bibliography.
— Alistair Thomson, Monash University; Oral History
This handbook brings together some of the ablest oral historians to offer thoughtful, thorough, and timely assessments of their field. It belongs on the shelf of anyone seriously interested in the theory and practice of oral history.
— Donald A. Ritchie, associate historian, U.S. Senate Historical Office; author of Doing Oral History
The editors set out to collect essays that could serve as an introduction to the contemporary practice and theory of oral history and succeeded in assembling a guide to the state of the field... The chapters were written expressly for this book and with its goals in mind, giving this anthology relative thematic coherence... Indeed, among the volume's many strengths is its tendency to promote and extend oral history's most theoretical and practical questions.
— Register of the Kentucky Historical Society