The Oral History Manual

• Main Authors: Sommer, Barbara W. (Author), Quinlan, Mary Kay (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Lanham, Maryland Rowman & Littlefield 2018
• Edition: Third Edition
• Series: American Association for State and Local History book series
• Subjects: Oral history > Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Oral history > Methodology; Interviewing |v > Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Historiography
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• Physical Description: viii, 145 pages illustrations 29 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9781442270794; 9781442270787

The Oral History Manual is designed to help anyone interested in doing oral history research to think like an oral historian. Recognizing that oral history is a research methodology, the authors define oral history and then discuss the methodology in the context of the oral history life cycle - the guiding steps that take a practitioner from idea through access/use. They examine how to articulate the purpose of an interview, determine legal and ethical parameters, identify narrators and interviewers, choose equipment, develop budgets and record-keeping systems, prepare for and record interviews, care for interview materials, and use the interview information.