Description:
The Oral History Manual, 4th edition, is a comprehensive and user-friendly book designed to take novice or experienced oral historians through the entire life cycle of an oral history project, from idea through planning, interviewing, caring for, and making oral history interviews accessible.
Review Quotes:
"The Oral History Manual is a thorough and thoughtful guide that puts ethics at the heart of every step of the oral history process. It incorporates new ideas and examples that illustrate why oral history is such a dynamic methodology in the 21st century. Useful and inspiring for novice and veteran oral history practitioners alike."" --Lu Ann Jones, National Park Service historian (retd.)
"The Oral History Manual sits on my office shelf, never gathering dust, because when I need an oral history reminder, I check it first." --Troy Reeves, Oral Historian; UW-Madison Archives & Records Management Services; President, Oral History Association, 2024-2025 "The Oral History Manual provides my students, in the most understandable terms, the functional scaffolding of an oral history project." --Matt Jones, Coordinator, EMU Archives Oral History Program, Eastern Michigan University.