Volume 37 of "Oral History Review" magazine
Volume 37 Issue 2 Summer-Fall 2010
Editor''s Introduction: articleKim Porter
ARTICLES: McCarthy
“Is Oral History Good for You?” Taking Oral History beyond Documentation and into a Clinical
Noah Riseman
Contesting White Knowledge: Yolngu Stories from World War II
Select this article: Anna Sheftel and Stacey Zembrzycki
Only Human: A Reflection on the Ethical and Methodological Challenges of Working with “Difficult” Stories
Select this article: Rob Perks
The Roots of Oral History: Exploring Contrasting Attitudes to Elite, Corporate, and Business Oral History in Britain and the U.S.
Select this article: Rina Benmayor
Contested Memories of Place: Representations of Salinas’ Chinatown
Select this article: Debbie Lee
Listening to the Land: The Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness as Oral History
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Select this articleNancy Anderson
It''s all for the Kids: Gender, Families, and Youth Sports
Select this articleLinda M. Baeza Porter
The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling Under Communism
Select this article: Mary Barr
The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship
Select this article: Teresa Bergen
Them that Believe: The Power and Meaning of the Christian Serpent-Handling Tradition
Select this articleJoanna Bornat
Negotiating Boundaries in the City: Migration, Ethnicity, and Gender in Britain
Select this article: Ted Buswick
Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock ‘N’ Roll Pioneers
Select this article:Donna M. DeBlasio
California Hotel and Casino: Hawai‘i''s Home Away from Home
Select this article: Luisa Del Giudice
Storie Orali: Racconto, Immaginazione, Dialogo (Oral [Hi]stories: Narrative, Imagination, Dialogue)
Select this article: Peggy M. Dillon
Crooked Road: The Story of the Alaska Highway
Select this article: Michael B. Dougan
Looking Back at the Arkansas Gazette: An Oral History
Select this articleMeagan Gough
Catching Stories: A Practical Guide to Oral History
Select this article: Hanna Griff-Sleven
It''s Good to be a Woman
Select this article: Timothy Hensley
48 Hours of Kristallnacht: Night of Destruction/Dawn of the Holocaust
This is Home Now: Kentucky''s Holocaust Survivors Speak
Select this article: Leonard Kamerling
Isuma—Inuit Video Art
Select this article: Daniel Kerr
Counting the Dead: The Culture and Politics of Human Rights Activism in Colombia
Select this article: Mary E. Kohler
Why i am not a Scientist
Select this articleGuy Lancaster
Boom Town: How Wal-Mart Transformed an All-American Town into an International Community
Select this article: Katherine Sharp Landdeck
Good Girls, Good Food, Good Fun: The Story of USO Hostesses During World War II
Select this article: Courtney A. Lyons
The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee
Select this article: Marta Marciniak
Southern Cultures: Fall 2009. Music
Select this article: Michella M. Marino
A Woman at War: Marlene Dietrich Remembered
Select this articleErin McCarthy
Old Leather: An Oral History of Early Pro Football in OHIO, 1920–1935
Oral History Review (2010) 37(2): 296-297 first published online July 22, 2010 doi:10.1093/ohr/ohq073
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Select this articleLaurie Mercier
The Good Times are all gone now: Life, Death, and Rebirth in an Idaho Mining Town
Select this article: Joanna Parson
Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky Tonk Angels: The Women of Barn Dance Radio
Select this article: Kimberly K. Porter
Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History
Select this article: Mary Kay Quinlan
Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists who Covered it
Select this article: Susan D. Rose
Voices from the Nueva Frontera: Latino Immigration to Dalton, Georgia
Latino Voices in New England
Select this article: Molly Rosner
Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home
Select this articleBetty Sample
Overcoming Katrina: African American Voices from the Crescent City and Beyond
Select this article: Emily Saunders
Hikâye: Turkish Folk Romance as Performance Art
Select this articleJody Sowell
A Different Shade of Orange: Voices of Orange County, California, Black Pioneers
Select this article: Pramod K. Srivastava
The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories
Select this article: Jeremy Strachan
Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music
Select this article: Sady Sullivan
Sisters in The Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City
Select this article: Kieran W. Taylor
Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times
Select this article: Elizabeth Thomas-Hope
Jamaican Hands Across the Atlantic
Select this articleSamuel R. Thomas
Maqam and Liturgy: Ritual, Music, and Aesthetics of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn
Select this articleJanice E. Tulk
Masters of the Sabar: Wolof Griot Percussionists of Senegal
Select this articleLois Wilcken
Caribbean Journeys: An Ethnography of Migration and Home in Three Family Networks
Select this article: Linda P. Wood
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Validation: Challenges and Necessities
Where does truth stand in oral history? How can the correctness of a narrative be recognized? Does fact-checking matter? If there is exaggeration in the reporting of some accounts, how can it be detected? Is it possible to record an event accurately through the recording of a narrative? Readers and users of oral history works are often faced with these questions, and sometimes encounter doubts about some oral history works.From Revolutionary Circles to the Military Arm of the Islamic Government
In those days, it became clear that certain institutions had to be established very quickly—institutions suited to the temperament, expectations, and lingering aspirations of the younger generation; young people who had been politically active before the Revolution and, in some cases, had been directly entangled in arrests, imprisonment, ...Authenticating Oral History: From Possibility to Necessity
The use of oral history as one of the historical sources has long been one of the principal challenges facing oral historians and those who employ it in contemporary historiography. The development of international standards for oral history, as well as IRIB standards, was intended to address the criticisms raised in this regard. The relationship between Diplomatics in written records and oral history is reciprocal.100 Questions/27
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