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Doing Oral History is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional oral historians, public historians, archivists, and genealogists as a core text in college courses and throughout the public history community. Over the past decades, the development of digital audio and video recording technology has continued to alter the practice of oral history, making it even easier to produce quality recordings and to disseminate them on the
Internet. This basic manual offers detailed advice on setting up an oral history project, conducting interviews, making video recordings, preserving oral history collections in archives and libraries, and
teaching and presenting oral history.Using the existing Q&A format, the third edition asks new questions and augments previous answers with new material, particularly in these areas: 1. Technology: As before, the book avoids recommending specific equipment, but weighs the merits of the types of technology available for audio and video recording, transcription, preservation, and dissemination. Information about web sites is expanded, and more discussion is provided
about how other oral history projects have posted their interviews online. 2. Teaching: The new edition addresses the use of oral history in online teaching. It also expands the discussion of
Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) with the latest information about compliance issues. 3. Presentation: Once interviews have been conducted, there are many opportunities for creative presentation. There is much new material available on innovative forms of presentation developed over the last decade, including interpretive dance and other public performances. 4. Legal considerations: The recent Boston College case, in which the courts have ruled that Irish police should
have access to sealed oral history transcripts, has re-focused attention on the problems of protecting donor restrictions. The new edition offers case studies from the past decade. 5.
Theory and Memory: As a beginner's manual, Doing Oral History has not dealt extensively with theoretical issues, on the grounds that these emerge best from practice. But the third edition includes the latest thinking about memory and provides a sample of some of the theoretical issues surrounding oral sources. It will include examples of increased studies into catastrophe and trauma, and the special considerations these have generated for interviewers. 6. Internationalism:
Perhaps the biggest development in the past decade has been the spreading of oral history around the world, facilitated in part by the International Oral History Association. New oral history projects have
developed in areas that have undergone social and political upheavals, where the traditional archives reflect the old regimes, particularly in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The third edition includes many more references to non-U.S. projects that will still be relevant to an American audience. These changes make the third edition of Doing Oral History an even more useful tool for beginners, teachers, archivists, and all those oral history
managers who have inherited older collections that must be converted to the latest technology.
Doing Oral History is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional oral historians, public historians, archivists, and genealogists as a core text in college courses and throughout the public history community. Over the past decades, the development of digital audio and video recording technology has continued to alter the practice of oral history, making it even easier to produce quality recordings and to disseminate them on the
Internet. This basic manual offers detailed advice on setting up an oral history project, conducting interviews, making video recordings, preserving oral history collections in archives and libraries, and
teaching and presenting oral history.Using the existing Q&A format, the third edition asks new questions and augments previous answers with new material, particularly in these areas: 1. Technology: As before, the book avoids recommending specific equipment, but weighs the merits of the types of technology available for audio and video recording, transcription, preservation, and dissemination. Information about web sites is expanded, and more discussion is provided
about how other oral history projects have posted their interviews online. 2. Teaching: The new edition addresses the use of oral history in online teaching. It also expands the discussion of
Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) with the latest information about compliance issues. 3. Presentation: Once interviews have been conducted, there are many opportunities for creative presentation. There is much new material available on innovative forms of presentation developed over the last decade, including interpretive dance and other public performances. 4. Legal considerations: The recent Boston College case, in which the courts have ruled that Irish police should
have access to sealed oral history transcripts, has re-focused attention on the problems of protecting donor restrictions. The new edition offers case studies from the past decade. 5.
Theory and Memory: As a beginner's manual, Doing Oral History has not dealt extensively with theoretical issues, on the grounds that these emerge best from practice. But the third edition includes the latest thinking about memory and provides a sample of some of the theoretical issues surrounding oral sources. It will include examples of increased studies into catastrophe and trauma, and the special considerations these have generated for interviewers. 6. Internationalism:
Perhaps the biggest development in the past decade has been the spreading of oral history around the world, facilitated in part by the International Oral History Association. New oral history projects have
developed in areas that have undergone social and political upheavals, where the traditional archives reflect the old regimes, particularly in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The third edition includes many more references to non-U.S. projects that will still be relevant to an American audience. These changes make the third edition of Doing Oral History an even more useful tool for beginners, teachers, archivists, and all those oral history
managers who have inherited older collections that must be converted to the latest technology.
Introduction and Acknowledgments
1. An Oral History of Our Time
Memory and Oral History
Public History and Oral History
2. Setting Up An Oral History Project
Funding and Staffing
Equipment
Processing
Legal Concerns
Archiving and the Internet
3. Conducting Interviews
Preparing for the Interview
Setting up the Interview
Conducting the Interview
Concluding the Interview
4. Using Oral History for Research
Oral Evidence
Theory
Publishing Oral History
5. Videotaping Oral History
Setting and Equipment
Processing and Preserving Video Recordings
Video Documentaries, Exhibits, and the Internet
6. Preserving Oral History in Archives and Libraries
Managing Oral History Collections
Sound Recordings
Digital Oral Archives
Donated Interviews
Legal Considerations
Public Outreach
7. Teaching Oral History
Oral History in Elementary and Secondary Schools
Oral History in Undergraduate and Graduate Education
Institutional Review Boards
8. Presenting Oral History
Oral History Web Sites
Community History
Family Interviewing
Therapeutic Uses of Oral History
Museum Exhibits
Radio and Television
Performance
Appendix 1: Best Practices of the Oral History Association.
Appendix 2: Sample Legal Release Forms
Notes and References
Bibliography
Internet Resources
Index
Donald A. Ritchie is Historian, U.S. Senate Historical Office; past president of the Oral History Association; editor of the The Oxford Handbook of Oral History and author of Press Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents and Reporting from Washington.
"Donald Ritchie...has produced an invaluable manual that will serve
research scholars and teachers equally well...Without pretension,
Doing Oral History fulfills the promise touted on the jacket cover:
to provide 'practical advice and reasonable explanations for
anyone.'...[A] significant contribution to making oral history
accessible to a wide audience of potential users."--The History
Teacher
"Written in a friendly question-and-answer format, this book gives
advice for preparing, setting up, and conducting an
interview...Ritchie's step-by-step guide will help you preserve
your family's experiences for generations to come."--Family
Tree
"Ritchie has laid out the fundamentals to guide novices and given
long-term practitioners material that will help them re-evaluate
their own approaches. This book needs to be on every oral
historian's shelf."--Northwest Oral History Association
"This book is not a dustcatcher. It is destined to be dog-eared and
full of underlined passages, from the first time you pick it up. In
a user-friendly question-and-answer format, much like an oral
history interview, Don Ritchie has packed into one modest volume
enough practical advice to get an oral history project off the
ground, help a novice oral historian conduct a responsible
interview, and challenge more experienced oral historians,
librarians, and
archivists who might use oral history to think broadly about the
impact of what they are doing."--Mid-Atlantic Archivist
"[The] standard work for many years to come."--Public Historian
"Simple, straightforward, and effective...[A] stimulating and
formidable work...[I]t is indeed a guide to practice, but it is
much more: it is a stepping-off point to the increasingly large
universe that oral history pracititioners occupy."--Oral History
Review
"[An] all-purpose guide to the entire range of the oral history
process...[T]his volume provides extensive background on oral
history and its relation to the larger realm of historical inquiry,
discusses how oral history interviewing compares with journalistic
and other interviewing techniques, and considers the workings of
the human memory."--American Archivist
"A definitive guide that provides all the practical advice and
explanations needed to turn your ideas and goals into action and to
create recordings that illuminate the human experience for
generations to come. Definitely recommended."--The Ultimate Puzzle:
Family Research
"A comprehensive handbook on the theory, methods, and practice of
oral history, based on work by the Oral History Association to
revise its professional standards and principles."--Book News,
Inc.
"[A] comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the art of oral
history."--Oral History in New Zealand
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