Week 9: Oral History
Primary Sources
Speaking Archives at Modern Records Centre, Warwick
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Oral Histories of the American South
Further Reading
Abrams, Lynn, Oral History Theory (Routledge, 2016), 2nd ed.
Lummis, Trevor, Listening to History: The Authenticity of Oral Evidence (Barnes and Noble, 1987)
Perks Robert and Alistair Thomson, eds, The Oral History Reader (Routledge, 2006)
Ritchie, Donald, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Oral History (Oxford, 2011)
Tonkin, Elizabeth, Narrating Our Pasts: The Social Construction of Oral History (Cambridge, 1992)
Thompson, Paul, Voices of the Past: Oral History (Oxford, 2000)
Vansina, Jan, Oral Tradition as History (Oxford, 1985)
White, L, S. F. Miescher and D. W. Cohen, eds, African Words, African Voices: Critical Practices in Oral History (Bloomington IN, 2001)