Oral History Review - current issue

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

Porter, K. — 2008-01-01

Through Hell and High Water: New Orleans, August 29-September 15, 2005

Cave, M. — 2008-01-01

Abstract: In October of 2005 the Historic New Orleans Collection initiated an oral history project entitled "Through Hell and High Water: New Orleans, August 29–September 15, 2005." The intent of the project was to capture the stories of first responders who worked in the New Orleans metropolitan area during the storm and the weeks that followed. The interview process has been linked with the after-action studies done by some of the local first-responding agencies and has provided a much-needed outlet for first responders. To date over three hundred subjects have been interviewed, and our work thus far has shown us that top-down methods of documentation do not work with an event like Katrina. The almost total loss of communications made it impossible for high-ranking members of the different agencies to control or even know what lower-ranking members were doing. As a result it will be necessary to cast a wide net in our documentation effort.

Diagnosis versus Dialogue: Oral Testimony and the Study of Pediatric Pain

Nutkiewicz, M. — 2008-01-01

Abstract: Through the perspectives of the children, this essay examines the communication between pediatric pain patients and their doctors. Based upon the oral history responses of thirty-two patients with chronic pain present for evaluation at the Pediatric Pain Clinic at UCLA, oral testimony was employed to uncover a wide range of topics related to a child's experience with pain such as family dynamics, how and when pain became a life-changing factor, coping strategies, and external sources that contribute to the child's understanding of pain. Most important, children were encouraged to explain what it was like to be in pain, not only to describe symptoms but also to share their dreams and hopes, their fears and uncertainties—as well as the place of pain in their world.

Phenomenology and the Problems of Oral History

Kirby, R. K. — 2008-01-01

Abstract: In this article, the author argues that many of the best practices of oral history reflect phenomenological thinking even though practitioners may not describe themselves as using phenomenological methods. The author suggests that knowledge and application of phenomenology can clarify or minimize such potential problems as interviewer bias and informant unreliability and can refute accusations that oral history is less reliable than history taken from documents.

Teaching and Social Reform in the 1960s: Lessons from National Teacher Corps Oral Histories

Rogers, B. L. — 2008-01-01

Abstract: This article draws on oral history narratives to examine the beliefs and expectations that brought a group of young people to the field of teaching in the 1960s through the National Teacher Corps (NTC). The oral histories address the identities, politics, aims, and backgrounds of a dozen NTC participants. By situating the voices of these young people within a larger social and historical context, the article uses oral history testimony to reconsider existing accounts of social reform movements and teaching in the 1960s and early 1970s. Specifically, the oral histories allow Teacher Corps participants to emerge as individuals who represent an important if largely unexplored population that took part in 1960s movements toward greater equality and social justice and who embraced the unique perspective that teaching in ordinary schools serving poor and minority students could offer meaningful opportunities for grassroots, social reform activity.

Oral History and al-Nakbah

Gluck, S. B. — 2008-01-01

"No Flies on Bill": The Story of an Uncontrollable old Woman, My Grandmother, Ethel "Billie" Gammon

Corbett, K. T. — 2008-01-01

The Face of Decline: the Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century

DeBlasio, D. M. — 2008-01-01

The Italian American Experience In New Haven: Images and Oral Histories

DeBlasio, D. M. — 2008-01-01

The Oral History Project: Connecting Students to Their Community, Grades 4-8

Hickey, M. G. — 2008-01-01

Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis that Shocked A Nation

Lancaster, G. — 2008-01-01

Reclaiming the Ancestors: Decolonizing a Taken Prehistory of the Far Northeast

MacDougall, P. — 2008-01-01

Turkey's Modernization: Refugees From Nazism and Ataturk's Vision

Ozturkmen, A. — 2008-01-01

Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986

Piliawsky, M. — 2008-01-01

Red Brick in the Land of Steady Habits: Creating the Univeristy of Connecticut, 1881-2006

Porter, K. K. — 2008-01-01

Fishing for Gold: The Story of Alabama's Catfish Industry

Preuss, G. — 2008-01-01

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation

Quinlan, M. K. — 2008-01-01

Renewing the Countryside: Wisconsin

Reeves, T. — 2008-01-01

Talk Back: Sex Workers in the Maritimes

Rickard, W. — 2008-01-01

Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President

Ritchie, D. A. — 2008-01-01

Historia, Antropologia, Y Fuentes Orales

Junco, N. R. — 2008-01-01

A Florida Fiddler: The Life and Times of Richard Seaman

Seemann, C. — 2008-01-01

In Our Own Voices: a Guide to Conducting Life History Interviews with American Jewish Women

Thomopoulos, E. — 2008-01-01

Creating Choice: A Community Responds to the Need for Abortion and Birth Control, 1961-1973

Valk, A. M. — 2008-01-01

Inconstant Companions: Archaeology and North American Indian Oral Traditions

Woodworth-Ney, L. — 2008-01-01

Clio's Southern Sisters: Interviews with Leaders of the Southern Association for Women Historians

Yow, V. — 2008-01-01