oral history

Available online:

Oral History Association

Texas Oral History Association

Linda Shopes, Making Sense of Oral History, "History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/oral/, February 2002

Fundamentals of Oral History: Texas Preservation Guidelines, Texas Historical Commission

Oral history centers and projects

Institute for Oral History, Baylor University

Black Oral History Collection, Washington State University

Black Women Oral History, Columbia University Libraries

Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project: digital archives of video oral histories of Japanese-Americans incarcerated or interned during World War II

The Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement, University of California at Berkeley

Institute of Oral History, University of Texas at El Paso

Telling Their Stories: Oral History Archives Project

Oral History Project at the University of North Texas (UNT)

The T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History, A Division of LSU Libraries' Special Collections, Louisiana State University

Tejano Voices, University of Texas at Arlington

U.S. Latino and Latina World War II Oral History Project, University of Texas at Austin

Voices of Feminism Oral History Project, Sophia Smith Collection, Women's History Archives, Smith College

Katrina oral history projects

Hurricane Digital History Bank (HDHB), Albert Gore, Sr., Research Center, Middle Tennessee State University

Hurricane Katrina Community Advisory Group, Harvard Medical School, Department of Health Care Policy

Hurricane Katrina Diaspora Project, Texas A & M Kingsville, Department of History

The Katrina Experience: An Oral History Project

Katrina-Rita Oral History ProjectNational Policy and Advocacy Council on Homelessness (N-PACH)

Public Radio Exchange (PRX) Katrina Oral History Montage

Available at office (please do not remove):

Joe L. Kincheloe and Peter McLaren. "Rethinking Critical Theory and Qualitative Research," in Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln, eds., The Landscape of Qualitative Research: Theories and Issues. Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2003, 433-488

James E. Fogerty. "Oral History and Archives: Documenting Context." Thomas L. Charloton, Lois E. Myers, and Rebecca Sharpless, eds. History of Oral History: Foundations and Methodology, Lanham, Md. and New York: Alta Mira/Rowman & Littlefield, 2007, 197-226

Our future physical archive:

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History (CAH), University of Texas at Austin
The Texas After Violence Project is an independent oral history project, not run by the Center for American History, but in 2007 we negotiated with the CAH to archive the original audi-recordings and videotapes of oral histories there, once a critical mass of narrators (people we have interviewed) have donated their materials to the project with the understanding that we would share their interviews with CAH, among other libraries and archives. . No materials are at CAH yet.

Terms:

* The person interviewed,
the person who grants an interview,
the interviewee,
the person we interview,
the narrator,
the person who shares or tells her or his story,
the storyteller,
the interview subject,
the informant,
the interview donor,
the donor,
and the consultant

are all phrases that -- in our context -- overlap in meaning. Different people use different phrases, depending on their perspectives on what they're doing; academics will use terms that vary according to their disciplinary training.

Which terms do you prefer? Why?