BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RESOURCES
Further Readings
Armitage, S. H., & Hart, P., & Weathermon, K. (2002). Women's Oral History: The Frontiers Reader. University of Nebraska Press.
Bornat, J., & Perks, R., & Thompson, P., & Walmsley, J. (2000). Oral History, Health and Welfare. Routledge.
Caunce, S. (1994). Oral History and the Local Historian. London: Longman.
Charlton, T. L., Myers, L. E., & Sharpless, R. (Eds.). (2006). Handbook of Oral History. Lanham, MD, USA: AltaMira Press.
Hamilton, P., & Shopes, L. (2008). Oral History and Public Memories. Temple University Press.
Leavy, P. (2011). Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research. Oxford University Press.
Nevins, Allan. (2009). The Columbia Encyclopedia (6th ed.). New York: Columbia University Press.
Perks, R., & Thomson, A. (2006). The Oral History Reader (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Routledge
Ritchie, D. A. (2010). The Oxford Handbook of Oral History. Oxford University Press.
Sommer, B. W., & Quinlan, M. K. (2009). The Oral History Manual (2nd ed.). Lanham, MD, USA: AltaMira Press.
Stokes, C. (2000). Like It Was: A Complete Guide to Writing Oral History. New York, NY: Teachers & Writers Collaborative.
Thompson, P. (2000). The Voice of the Past: Oral History. Oxford University Press.
Yow, V. R. (1994). Recording Oral History: A practical guide for social scientists. California, USA: SAGE.
Journal Articles
Bolick, C. M., & Norberg, L., & Durbin, D. (2007). Listen Up: Studying the American Labor Movement through Oral Histories. Social Education, 71.
Gordon, M. A. (2005). Recording Oral History: A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2d Ed. The Oral History Review, 32.
Launius, R. D. (2003). "We Can Lick Gravity, but Sometimes the Paperwork Is Overwhelming": NASA, Oral History, and the Contemporary Past. The Oral History Review, 30.
McKenzie, B. (2005). Collecting Oral Histories for Entrepreneurship Research. New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, 8.
Valk, A. M. (2006). Recording Oral History: a Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 99.
Other Articles
"Making Oral History". Institute of Historical Research. http://www.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/resources/articles/oral_history.html
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Article on oral history from the Columbia Encyclopedia. http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/oral+history
Definition of oral history from the Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science. http://www.abc-clio.com/ODLIS/odlis_o.aspx#oralhistory
Definition of oral history from the American Heritage Dictionary. http://www.yourdictionary.com/oral-history
Definition of oral history from the Oxford Online Dictionaries. http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/oral+history
Definition of oral history from the Macmillan Dictionary. http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/american/oral-history
Definition of oral history from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary. http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/oral-history
Oral History Projects and Archives
“American Life Histories.” WPA Writers' Project 1936–1940. Library of Congress. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
“Mr. Boder Vanishes.” This American Life. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives http://www.thisamericanlife.org/
“This American Life: the television show!” This American Life. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-03-03. http://web.archive.org/web/20070929081436/http://thislife.org/Default.aspx
Johnson Space Center (JSC) Oral History Project http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/oral_histories.htm
Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries. http://www.kentuckyoralhistory.org/
MEMORO Bank of Memories: http://www.memoro.org/ (VIDEO narrations archive)
National Day of Listening. http://nationaldayoflistening.org/
National Public Radio. http://www.npr.org/series/4516989/storycorps
Oral History of Heavy Metal: http://loudwire.com/louder-than-hell-the-definitive-oral-history-of-metal-book-may-14/
Regional Oral History Office (ROHO), Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/
Southern Oral History Program, University of North Carolina. http://www.sohp.org/
StoryCorps. http://storycorps.org/
The heart of hope: South Africa’s transition from Apartheid to Democracy. http://www.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/
Theater Museum Canada's "The Legend Library" Oral History Project: http://www.youngpeoplestheatre.ca/blog/2012/checkthisout/an-interview-with-our-founder-susan-douglas-rubes
Voice of Witness: Illuminating human rights crisis through oral history. www.voiceofwitness.com
Voices: Palestinian women narrate displacement. http://almashriq.hiof.no/palestine/300/301/voices/index2.html
WW2 People's War. (2006). British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/
From the British Library:
- Food Stories - Food-related oral history recordings from the BL Sound Archive. http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/foodstories/index.html
- Oral history collections and activities, including National Life Stories. http://www.bl.uk/oralhistory
From the US Government:
- Oral History of the US House of Representatives. http://oralhistory.clerk.house.gov/
- US Senate Oral History Project. http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/g_three_sections_with_teasers/oralhistory.htm
From Academia:
- African American Oral History Collection at University of Louisville (Louisville, Kentucky). http://digital.library.louisville.edu/collections/afamoh/
- American Century Oral History Project at St. Andrew's Episcopal School is one of the largest pre-collegiate oral history projects and archives in the US. http://www.americancenturyproject.org/
- Canadian Military Oral History Collection at University of Victoria, Special Collections. http://library.uvic.ca/spcoll/military/miloral.html
Other
- FirstPersonUSA.org - A project of citizen historians concerned with preserving the memories of ordinary Americans, http://www.wix.com/malibupat/firstpersonusa
- In the First Person - Index of 2,500+ collections of international oral histories in English, http://www.inthefirstperson.com/firp/index.shtml
- NYC records from Sept. 11 - Includes more than 12,000 pages of oral histories as told by 503 firefighters, paramedics, and emergency medical technicians, http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/met_WTC_histories_full_02.html
- Oral history in the teaching of US History, http://www.ericdigests.org/1996-4/oral.htm
- Recollections of WWII - Directory of oral history collections relating to WWII, http://www.recollectionsofwwii.co.uk/
- The HistoryMakers: African American Video Oral History Archive (non-profit), http://thehistorymakers.com/
- Voices Through Corridors - Oral History accounts of hospital patients and staff in Walsall, http://www.voicesthroughcorridors.co.uk/
- Witness to War Foundation (non-profit) - Over 600 oral histories of combat veterans, http://www.witnesstowar.org/
Oral History Centers/Organizations/Associations/Societies
- Canadian Oral History Association: http://www.canoha.ca/
- Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling - Concordia University: http://storytelling.concordia.ca/
- Columbia Center for Oral History: http://library.columbia.edu/indiv/ccoh.html
- H-Oralhist (H-Oralhist is a network for scholars and professionals active in studies related to oral history): http://www.h-net.org/~oralhist/
- Institut d'histoire du temps présent (French): http://www.ihtp.cnrs.fr/
- International Oral History Association: http://www.iohanet.org/
- Oral History Association (USA): http://www.oralhistory.org/
- Oral History Association of Australia: http://www.ohaa.net.au/
- Oral History Society (UK): http://www.ohs.org.uk/ & http://www.ohs.org.uk/resources.php
- The Australian Centre for Oral History: http://www.acoh.com.au/
- The Cyprus Oral History: http://www.frederick.ac.cy/research/oralhistory/
Oral History Projects in Cyprus
- The Cyprus Oral History and Living Memory project. www.frederick.ac.cy/research/oralhistory/
- Sociopolitical Studies Institute. www.ikme.eu
- Turkish Cypriot Heritage Project. http://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/
- http://www.memoro.org/
Other resources
Cyprus Community Media Center. http://www.cypruscommunitymedia.org/
Technical
- Digital Audio and Portable Recorders: The Basics by Doug Boyd. http://www.oralhistory.org/technology/audio_basics/
- General principles and best practices for oral history. http://www.oralhistory.org/do-oral-history/principles-and-practices/
- Dédalo Project - Open software platform for management of intangible cultural heritage and oral history. http://www.fmomo.org/dedalo/pg/?lang=en
- Advice on how to conduct oral history interviewing from the East Midlands Oral History Archive. http://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/training.html
- Testimony software from the Australian Centre for Oral History. http://www.attendonline.com/Testimony/testimony.html
- The manual of analogue restoration techniques by Peter Copeland is designed to aid audio engineers and audio archivists, and is available via the British Library Sound Archive. http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/sound/anaudio/manual.html