Volume 37 of "Oral History Review" magazine

Oral History Review magazine Volume 37 Issue 2 Summer-Fall 2010 : it s inclusive: ARTICLES: McCarthy - “Is Oral History Good for You?” Taking Oral History beyond Documentation and into a Clinical ...

Covert Relationship

This modern study of the Iran-Iraq War utilizes newly available primary materials to analyze American policy towards the war and question the veracity of the United States' claims of strict neutrality. The Iran-Iraq War was one of the deadliest and most costly conflicts in the modern era; well over a million lives were lost, and America alone spent a shocking $1.2 trillion backing both Iran and Iraq's efforts.

In Memory of Memoir

This book; »In Memory of Memoir «has been arranged in 3 volumes. In the first volume )this book( generalities of memoirs studies - including definitions, scientific terms and dimensions of the subject from the view point of religion, mysticism, history, literature and to some extent social science - has been concisely noted and analysed.
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Experts Answer to Oral History Questions

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To what extent are we allowed to use narrative techniques (however simple) in compiling an oral history text?
We asked several researchers and activists in the field of oral history to express their views on oral history questions. The names of each participant are listed at the beginning of their answers, and the text of all answers will be published on this portal by the end of the week.

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.
A Portion of Abbas Douzduzani’s Memoirs

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.