Oral History Resources on the Web

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Oral History Association: http://www.baylor.edu/~OHA

From the OHA home page, you can access much useful information, especially:

� Principles and Standards--a good guide to mutual responsibilities of interviewer and interviewee

� Oral History Evaluation Guidelines

 

 

The Southern Oral History Program: http://www.sohp.org

This is a remarkably deep and rich site that includes an excellent "How to" section at http://www.sohp.org/howto/index.html

Regional Oral History Office at the University of California Berkeleyhttp://.bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO

The Library has a rich collection of materials, as well as some wonderful brief "how tos" including:

*The One Minute Guide to Oral History: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/1minute.html
Prepared by experts at a well respected project, this very brief piece gives essential advice to prepare for interviews.

*Tips for Interviewers by Willa K. Baum: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/rohotips.html
A very down-to-earth and practical guide by an outstanding practitioner

Oral History Lesson Plans and Other Resources
Oral History Lesson Plan from the Library of Congress:http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/oralhist/ohhome.html
From the American Memory Series, this lesson plan describes ways of using WPA life histories (found on the web at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html) to teach U.S. History.

Examples of  Oral History Websites Created by High School Students:

See also Mary Larson, "Potential, Potential, Potential: The Marriage of Oral History and the Web" Journal of American History 88 (September 2001) available on the web

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