Oral History as an Educational Methodology

 

What follows are sources that educators have found most useful. Please note that URLs do change and material is sometimes removed from the World Wide Web. If you would like to suggest additions to this list e-mail the project coordinator (gwhitman@saes.org).

Brooks, Michael. "'Long, Long Ago': Recipe for a Middle School Oral History Program." OAH Magazine of History 11, no. 3 (Spring 1997): 32.

Brown, Cynthia Stokes. Like It Was: A Complete Guide to Writing Oral History. New York: Teachers & Writers Collaborative. 1988.

Carter, Jeff. "History and Technology: Using Today's Tools to Help Students Access, Analyze, and Make History." Cable in the Classroom

(November 2002): 13.

Clegg, Luther B., et al. "Creating Oral History Projects for the Social Studies Classroom." Social Studies Review 32, (1992): 53-60.

Dean, Pamela, Toby Daspit , Petra Menro. Talking Gumbo: An Oral History Manual for Secondary School Teachers,

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1996, a companion to "You've Got To Hear the This Story," a 30-minute "how-to" video for conducting oral history interviews. Available through the Williams Center for Oral History.

"Fish Bowls and Bloopers: Oral History in the Classroom." http://www.youthsource.ab.ca/teacher_resources/oral_fish.html.

Gillis, C.  The Community as a Classroom: Integrating School and Community Through Language Arts. Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook Publishers. 1992.

Hamer, Lynne. "Oralized History: History Teachers as Oral History Tellers." The Oral History Review 27, no. 2 (Summer/Fall 2000), 19-39.

Hill, Margaret. "Oral History Research: Internet Resources and Reports." Social Education 65, no. 1 (2001): 4-6.

Hoopes, James. Oral History: An Introduction for Students. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.

Hudson Jr., Larry E. and Ellen Durrigan Santora.  "Oral History: An Inclusive Highway to the Past." The History Teacher 36 (February 2003), 206-220.

Huerta, Grace C., and Leslie A. Flemmer.  "Using Student-Generated Oral History Research in the Secondary Classroom."The Clearing House 74, no. 2 (2000) 105-110.

Jennings, Judy.  "My Mama Told Me:" Reclaiming the Story in Oral History.  The History Teacher 30 (1996): 89-95.

K'Meyer, Tracey E. "'It's Not Just Common Sense': A Blueprint for Teaching Oral History." Oral History Review 25, nos. 1-2 (Summer/Fall 1998): 37-38.

Lanman, Barry A. "Oral History as an Educational Tool for Teaching Immigration an Black History in American High Schools: Findings and Queries." The International Journal of Oral History 8, no. 2 (June 1987): 122-135.

------. "The Use of Oral History in the Classroom: A Comparative Analysis of the 1974 and 1987 Oral History Association Surveys." The Oral History Review 17 (Spring 1989): 215-226.

Lanman, Barry A. and George L. Mehaffy. Oral History in the Secondary School Classroom. Los Angeles, CA: Oral History Association, Pamphlet No. 2. 1989.

Lee, Charles R. and Kathryn L. Nasstrom. "Practice and Pedagogy: Oral History in the Classroom." Oral History Review 25, no. 1/2 (Summer/Fall, 1998): 1-7.

Mehaffy, George L., Thad Sitton, and O.L. Davis, Jr. Oral History in the Classroom.  How to Do It series 2, no. 8.  Washington, D.C.: National Council for the  Social Studies, 1979.

Neuenschwander, John A. Oral History as a Teaching Approach.  Washington, D.C.:   National Education Association, 1976.

Olmedo, Irma M. "Junior Historians: Doing Oral History with ESL and Bilingual Students." TESOL JOURNAL, Summer 1993.

"Oral History." OAH Magazine of History 11, no. 3 (Spring 1997).

"Oral History in the Classroom: Helping Students Learn About History from the People Who Lived It." A Seven-Part Serie by Kathryn Walbert (Posted February 2002)

Oral History in the Teaching of U.S. History. ERIC Digest. http://www.ericfacility.net/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed393781.html

Oral History Project for Adult Education Classes New Bedford Division of Adult/Continuing Education 455 County Street New Bedford, MA 02740

            http://literacytech.worlded.org/docs/oralhist/ma2a.htm.

Payne, Emily M., and Barbara G. Lyman. "Family and Community Oral History."  Reading Improvement 31 (1994): 221-223.

Ritchie, Donald A. "Teaching the Cold War Through Oral History." Organization of American Historians Magazine of History 8 (Winter 1994). http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/coldwar/ritchie.html.

Roy, Loriene. "Planning an Oral History Project." Journal of Youth Services in Libraries 6 (1993): 409-413.

Sitton, Thad, et al. Oral History: A Guide for Teachers (and Others). Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 1983.

Steinberg, Stephen.  "The World Inside the Classroom:  Using Oral History to Explore Racial and Ethnic Diversity." The Social Studies 84 (1993): 71-73.

"Tell Us How It Was: Students Interview Their Elders." What Kids Can Do: Student Work Oral Histories.

http://www.whatkidscando.org/oralhistories.html.

"Using Oral History: Lesson Overview" (Library of Congress American Memory Project) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/oralhist/ohhome.html

"Voices of Experience: Oral History in the Classroom." Magazine of History 11, no. 3 (Spring 1997): 23-31.

Whitman, Glenn. Dialogue with the Past: Engaging Students and Meeting Standards Through Oral History. California: AltaMira Press, 2004.

-----. "The Student Oral Historian in the A.P. United States History Classroom." Available at http://apcentral.collegeboard.com (Spring 2004)

-----. "Teaching Students How to Be Historians: An Oral History Project for the Pre-collegiate Classroom."The History Teacher 33 (Fall 2000): 469-481.

Wigginton, Eliot, ed. The Foxfire Book. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1972.

------. The Foxfire Book Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moon (Garden City, New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972).

------.  Sometimes a Shining Moment:  The Foxfire Experience. Garden City,  N.Y.:  Doubleday, 1985.

Wigginton, Eliot and Christopher Crawford. "Foxfire and the Educational Mainstream" in Rebecca Sharpless and David Stricklin eds. The Past Meets the Present: Essays On Oral History. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1988. 101-118. Available at Baylor University's Institute for Oral History's Workshop on the Web http://www3.baylor.edu/Oral_History/Workshop.htm.

Wood, Linda. Oral History Projects in the Classroom Pennsylvania: Oral History Association, 2001 and companion video History from the Living: The Organization and Craft of Oral History. Newport, RI: Grin Productions, 1998. 17 minutes. Available from J. Long Grin Productions, 6 Carey Street, Newport, RI 02804.

Last updated February 7, 2005