The Oral History Manual

By: Barbara W Sommer, Mary Kay Quinlan

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Paperback | 2 August 2024 | Edition Number 4

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The Oral History Manual, Fourth Edition, is a comprehensive and user-friendly book designed to take novice or experienced oral historians through the entire life cycle of creating an oral history project, from idea through planning, interviewing, caring for, and making oral history interviews accessible. It includes updated information on: evolving technology, including the use of--and challenges associated with--automated transcription apps; ethical and practical considerations related to oral history and social justice, including interviews with people experiencing trauma; and challenges associated with real-time interviews conducted in the wake of natural and human-caused disasters. It emphasizes that an oral historian's work is not finished when the recorder is turned off, describing in detail the importance of fully processing and preserving oral histories and related materials. The book emphasizes the importance of oral history practitioners providing context for their work so researchers and others who encounter the materials in the future will understand fully the circumstances in which the oral histories were created. The Oral History Manual, Fourth Edition also provides readers background on the evolution of oral history practice and includes appendices with sample forms that oral historians will find useful as they develop their own projects.

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The Oral History Manual sits on my office shelf, never gathering dust, because when I need an oral history reminder, I check it first. --Troy Reeves, Oral Historian; UW-Madison Archives & Records Management Services; President, Oral History Association, 2024-2025 The Oral History Manual is a thorough and thoughtful guide that puts ethics at the heart of every step of the oral history process. It incorporates new ideas and examples that illustrate why oral history is such a dynamic methodology in the 21st century. Useful and inspiring for novice and veteran oral history practitioners alike." --Lu Ann Jones, National Park Service historian (retd.) The Oral History Manual provides my students, in the most understandable terms, the functional scaffolding of an oral history project. --Matt Jones, Coordinator, EMU Archives Oral History Program, Eastern Michigan University.

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