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	Oral history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oral history is an account of something passed down by word of mouth from one generation to another.
		Oral history is considered by some historians to be an unreliable source for the study of history.
		The combination of this oral tradition with morals and rituals passed down by word of mouth is known as the folklore of a society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oral_history (916 words)

	P.O.V. - Re: Vietnam: Stories Since the War . Oral History Tips \| PBS
		Oral histories (also known as oral testimony and oral memoirs) convey a dramatic, first-hand view of history, with a storytelling approach and a sense of personal experience.
		Oral testimony can provide powerful insight into the experiences of the women who served in the military in Vietnam, as well as the stories of Vietnamese families now living in the U.S. Social movements played crucial roles in shaping the Vietnam era, and oral testimony is an excellent tool for studying such movements.
		Oral speech is a kind of short hand, filled with broken sentences and a variety of "ums" and "ahs." It is interwoven with inaudible gestures and facial expressions, and sounds that are hard to represent in written form.
	www.pbs.org /pov/stories/vietnam/curriculum.html (2202 words)

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		Before the development of written language in a given society, oral history has been the primary means of conveying information from one generation to the next.
		The most popular examples of oral history are the works of several authors that have, over the span of many hundred years BCE, collected folklore which ultimately resulted in these works being included in a collective book known as the Old Testament.
		Oral history is also used to refer to recording eyewitness accounts of historical events.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/o/or/oral_history.html (555 words)

	Oral History Association
		Regardless of the purpose of the interviews, oral history should be conducted in the spirit of critical inquiry and social responsibility and with a recognition of the interactive and subjective nature of the enterprise.
		Interviewees should be informed of the purposes and procedures of oral history in general and of the aims and anticipated uses of the particular projects to which they are making their contributions.
		Oral historians have a responsibility to maintain the highest professional standards in the conduct of their work and to uphold the standards of the various disciplines and professions with which they are affiliated.
	www.dickinson.edu /oha/pub_eg.html (4931 words)

	Oral History Society Home Page
		Oral history enables people who have been hidden from history to be heard, and for those interested in their past to record personal experiences and those of their families and communities.
		Oral history is used in schools by young people to explore their own community: talking about the past brings young and old together.
		Oral history is used in community and residential work with older people to encourage a sense of worth and continued contribution to society.
	www.ohs.org.uk (643 words)

	ORAL HISTORY: TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES
		Oral history is an essential means of preserving the experience of past battles and of imparting that experience to young soldiers.
		Oral history is defined for Army historians in the forthcoming Army Regulation (AR) 8705, Military History: Responsibilities, Policies, and Procedures, as "interviewing participants or experts in a particular subject or issue and preserving their judgments and recollections.
		The Center's oral history office establishes interview guidelines for Army historians; conducts EOT interviews with members of the Army Staff; advises the Army Staff on the uses of oral history; and biannually reports the status of the EndofTour Interview Program to the Army leadership.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/oral.htm (15538 words)

	Oral History : a Pathfinder
		Oral history is collecting those memories through oral history interviews in which a well-prepared interviewer asks a series of questions to interviewees and records their questions and answers.
		Many high school and undergraduate history classes are implementing oral history for student projects and class presentations and it helps student to see the history that is not only written in text book but also experienced by real people.
		Since an oral history interviewer deals with individuals whose memory can be inaccurate or biased by personal experience, conducting oral history interviews or research is not as simple as it looks like.
	www.albany.edu /~peterbae/Oral-His/idx.htm (3450 words)

	Charles Babbage Institute: CBI'S COLLECTIONS > Oral histories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Most of the 300-plus oral histories have been developed in conjunction with grant-funded research projects on topics such as the development of the software industry, the influence of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the early history of computer science departments.
		Oral history is a unique research tool, and archivists, historians, and other scholars have long debated its finer points.
		Oral history interviews are by nature wholly subjective -- they reflect only the interviewee's and interviewer's perspectives.
	www.cbi.umn.edu /collections/oralhistories.html (367 words)

	Oral History Association
		Oral history is a method of gathering and preserving historical information through recorded interviews with participants in past events and ways of life.
		The Oral History Association, established in 1966, seeks to bring together all persons interested in oral history as a way of collecting human memories.
		To guide and advise those concerned with oral documentation, the OHA has established a set of goals, guidelines, and evaluation standards for oral history interviews.
	omega.dickinson.edu /organizations/oha (209 words)

	Oral History - GCAH
		Oral history tapes are kept in cassette form for use by researchers.
		The quality of an oral history interview depends upon the interviewer’s knowledge of the subject, the questions asked, and the narrator’s responses.
		A scholar conducting oral history research cannot and should not control exactly what the narrator says, but should research the subject before the interview, make written suggestions about what the interview should accomplish and ask questions that will elicit reflective answers.
	www.gcah.org /oral.html (1331 words)

	Oral history
		In recent years oral history has emerged as a powerful means of recording and preserving the unique memories and life experiences of people whose stories might otherwise have been lost.
		Oral history can enliven static displays in museums and galleries and more directly engage visitors in their own past.
		Oral history has a firm place in schools as an interactive and shared experience offering children a rare chance to question history face-to-face while bringing generations together.
	www.bl.uk /collections/sound-archive/history.html (393 words)

	History And Background of Chelation Therapy -- both Oral and Intraveneous
		The phrase is "oral chelation" or "oral chelation therapy" or "chelation therapy." When the term "I/V" is added to these words, that refers to the medical procedure (needle in the arm, done by a doctor).
		The Vibrant Life oral chelation formula (Life Glow Plus) contains 300 milligrams of cysteine, and 300 mg of N Acetyl Cysteine; and that is plenty to give you a good quantity in the blood stream, to do that grabbing of toxic metals.
		Both the intravenous and the oral chelation people were claiming that your blood circulation was reduced because of a build-up of calcium on the inside of the arteries.
	www.oralchelation.com /history (4625 words)

	Step-by-Step Guide to Oral History
		Oral history is the systematic collection of living people’s testimony about their own experiences.
		Oral history is so flexible that people of all ages can adapt the techniques of asking and listening to create and learn about history and historical narratives.
		Oral historians are also concerned with storage of their findings for use by later scholars.
	www.dohistory.org /on_your_own/toolkit/oralHistory.html (3428 words)

	Oral History
		Oral history methods pair the oldest type of historical inquiry, evoking spoken word responses that predates writing, with relatively modern technologies, audio and video recording.
		Pretend that you are completing an oral history project; it could be an interview of one person.
		Visit Using Oral History and begin by studying oral histories at the Federal Writers' Project, then conduct some interviews yourself (Teacher overview at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/lessons/oralhist/ohhome.html).
	www.42explore2.com /oralhst.htm (1078 words)

	Alexander Street Press \| Oral History Index
		oral history offers a challenge to the accepted myths of history, to the authoritarian judgment inherent in its tradition.
		Oral histories are the voices of the disenfranchised—the famous and the lesser known.
		We aim to index all the important oral histories available either on the Web or hidden away in archives, in English, all around the world, linking subscribers to full text, audio, and video whenever available.
	www.alexanderstreet.com /products/orhi.htm (933 words)

	Center for the Study of History and Memory Homepage
		The Center for the Study of History and Memory began its existence in 1968, when the "Oral History Project" was founded by Oscar O. Winther as an initiative to collect the history of the University itself.
		The enormous potential of oral history as a research and pedagogical tool was quickly apparent, and the project expanded as other research studies were added to its growing archive.
		The newly organized Center for the Study of History and Memory continues to build upon its work in the field of oral history while broadening the range of its research projects to address the many ways that people remember, represent, and use the past in public and private life.
	www.indiana.edu /~cshm (430 words)

	Canadian Oral History Association Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Canadian Oral History Association recognizes these practitioners and other kinds of users and is open to those in allied fields who use sound recordings as cultural records.
		The Canadian Oral History Association was formed to help the diverse individuals and groups who express an interest in oral history and to deal with these problems by providing a clearing-house for information and a link among projects underway across Canada.
		Patricia Skidmore currently teaches Oral History as well as British, Modern European and Women's History at Brescia University College, an affiliate of The University of Western Ontario in London, Ont. Her recent two years as Academic Dean convinced her that teaching history is a privilege.
	oral-history.ncf.ca (685 words)

	Oral History
		Nevertheless, it should be kept in mind that oral histories should be subjected to the same criteria of credibility that historians employ for other records, and it should be remembered that there are a variety of types of oral histories.
		Oral history interviews are included in the Dorothy Day Papers in the Department of Special Collections and University Archives at Marquette University and in the Jonathan Daniels Materials in the Special Collections in the J. Murray Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
		Such projects are indicative of the growing amount of oral history inquiry in process both at the national and local levels that is applicable to the history of journalism.
	facstaff.elon.edu /dcopeland/ajha/oralhistory.htm (8762 words)

	Miller Center — Presidential Oral History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Presidential Oral History Program is systematically and comprehensively debriefing the principal figures in the administrations of Presidents Carter, Reagan, George H. Bush, and Clinton, with plans to do the same for future presidents.
		We are also conducting special projects on important topics in political history, including a six-year oral history on the life and career of Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
		Oral History scholar, Russell Riley, published an op-ed in the November 6, 2005 Washington Post on the problems future scholars will have tracking the history of the modern White House.
	www.millercenter.virginia.edu /programs/poh (422 words)

	The Oral History Project: A Culture and Heritage Exchange Initiative
		This intergenerational streaming media project, in partnership with the Library of Congress, is intended to preserve and honor the oral histories of Americans, bringing communities and schools together in an unparalleled civic pursuit - a project-based learning experience that is immeasurable in its scope.
		The Oral History Project can also be purchased as a stand-alone solution for schools, libraries or community outreach programs.
		By becoming a member of the Oral History Project, teachers have access to lesson plans, Web related resources and classroom activities that relate to the oral histories preserved at this location.
	oralhistory.minds.tv (316 words)

	Regional Oral History Office
		ROHO conducts, teaches, analyzes, and archives oral and video history documents in a broad variety of subject areas critical to the history of California and the United States.
		ROHO provides a forum for students and scholars working with oral sources to deepen the quality of their research and to engage with the theory, methodology, and meaning of individual testimony and social memory.
		She received the Berkeley Citation, the University's highest honor, in recognition of her achievements: building one of the leading oral history programs in the country and being an internationally recognized figure in the field of oral history.
	bancroft.berkeley.edu /ROHO (386 words)

	Making Sense of Oral History
		Written by Linda Shopes, this guide presents an overview of oral history and ways historians use it, tips on what questions to ask when reading or listening to oral history interviews, a sample interpretation of an interview, an annotated bibliography, and a guide to finding and using oral history online.
		She has worked on, consulted for, and written about oral history projects for more than twenty-five years.
		She is co-editor of The Baltimore Book: New Views of Local History and is past president of the Oral History Association.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /mse/oral (143 words)

	Oral History
		Begun in 1964 with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation, the oral history program is one of the oldest continuing activities of the John F. Kennedy Library.
		Modeled on the Columbia University oral history program, its goal is to collect, preserve, and make available interviews conducted with individuals who have recollections of events and people associated with John F. Kennedy.
		Researchers who use the oral history collection or other library holdings are encouraged to donate books, articles, research papers, dissertations, theses, and other products of research to the library to make its printed materials collection as definitive as possible.
	www.cs.umb.edu /~serl/jfk/oralhist.htm (5251 words)

	Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Cold War
		Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Cold War
		The Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Cold War is an enterprise to record the personal experiences of the men and women who served on the home front and overseas.
		"Oral history, by weaving personal experiences into the fabric of time, has turned history's rough cloth into a richly-textured tapestry."
	oralhistory.rutgers.edu (133 words)

	Regional Oral History Office
		Many ROHO oral history transcripts are now available in the Online Archive of California (OAC), an initiative of the California Digital Library (CDL).
		Mark up entails inserting into the text of the oral histories the codes or tags (invisible to the user) that allow for complex searching of the entire transcript.
		Currently, we are experimenting with subject access within the transcripts (no simple matter, since the oral histories were indexed with a wide variety of terminology, not based in any way upon standard vocabularies) and regularization of personal and corporate names within the markup.
	bancroft.berkeley.edu /ROHO/collections/ohonline.html (390 words)

	LBJ Library Oral History Home Page
		The following Oral Histories have been placed on the LBJ Web Server and are available for downloading.
		Oral History transcripts are also available from the Library through the mail.
		FRANTZ, JOE B. History Professor, University of Texas at Austin, 1949-1986; Director, LBJ Oral History Project, 1967-1974; History Professor, Corpus Christi State University, 1986-1993.
	www.lbjlib.utexas.edu /johnson/archives.hom/biopage.asp (1566 words)

	Oral history at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		However, oral history is a valid means for preserving and transmitting history.
		A person within a literate culture thus has presuppositions that may falsely affect her judgement of the validity of oral history within preliterate cultures.
		Oral History Online--Berkeley U (mostly California and the West)
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Oral_history.html (676 words)

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