https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389 Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Oral History Review. daily 1 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 text/html en-US Vol. 35 (2008) - vol. 46 (2019) Latest Articles: Oral History Review TWO Project MUSE® Oral History Review 1533-8592 0094-0798 Latest articles in Oral History Review. Feed provided by Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/article/736998 <p></p> At the end of a recent undergraduate qualitative methods class, in which we had discussed several readings on oral history ethics, students looked a little overwhelmed. I asked them how they were feeling. As always, there was a moment of silence before someone raised her hand and spoke. She shared that she had assumed that a course on research would involve more straightforward instructions and answers about how you do things, but what she was learning was that there are few answers; everything involves shades of grey. This was really intellectually stimulating and exciting but also confusing for her. I empathized and agreed with her on all counts. Like in oral history, education scholars struggle with the balance ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Embracing the Mess: Reflections on Untidy Oral History Pedagogy 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Embracing the Mess: Reflections on Untidy Oral History Pedagogy 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 29259 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/736999 <p></p> Collecting, preserving, and sharing the histories of trans and non-binary people is necessary and vitally important work, particularly in our current and politically precarious historical moment. As we navigate the ongoing hostilities and challenges to so many historically marginalized individuals, we need to be able to look to and learn from those who came before us. Unfortunately, this is a task often made difficult. As explained on the Tretter Transgender Oral History site, &#x22;transgender voices and experiences are often missing in contemporary documentation and the historic record.&#x22; As a trans-identified, transfeminist scholar, I am particularly attune to the lack of trans scholarship and representation in the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Documenting Subjugated Knowledges: Two Trans Oral History Archives 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Documenting Subjugated Knowledges: Two Trans Oral History Archives 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 18090 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737000 <p></p> I knew that even I was going to have some hindrance among strangers. But here in Eatonville I knew everybody was going to help me.Like many oral historians, my research has led me home. I began studying public school desegregation in my hometown, Longview, Texas, in 2015. Since then, every trip home during the summer or over holidays has found me digging through archives and collecting interviews. Now, each trip I make to my East Texas hometown is also a return to the field. Mundane and familiar tasks like going to the grocery store or picking up lunch at a local barbecue restaurant take on new meaning as I experience them as both critical scholar and hometown daughter. These identities constantly shift and blur ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Hometown Ethnography: Race, Place, and Reflexivity 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Hometown Ethnography: Race, Place, and Reflexivity 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 94618 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737001 <p></p> The mission of the The Lands We Share initiative is &#x22;to use Wisconsin&#39;s rich agricultural history and culturally diverse connections to land and farming to support community engagement and dialogue about the connections between identity, history and farming at six featured farm sites.&#x22; The initiative was made possible through a collaboration between the University of Wisconsin System, local communities, and students. The initiative constitutes two parts: a traveling exhibition paired with a public dialogue tour that centers on &#x22;the intersection of farming, land, ethnic culture and history in Wisconsin.&#x22; This review focuses on the exhibition.The six featured farm sites span the state: Allenville Farms in central ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall The lands we share, University of Wisconsin System and local community members (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US The lands we share, University of Wisconsin System and local community members (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 7581 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737002 <p></p> Few individuals are more closely identified with the field of oral history than is Studs Terkel (1912&#x2013;2008). Between 1952 and 1997, he conducted thousands of live radio interviews on Chicago&#39;s WFMT Radio Network, broadcasts carried by stations throughout the country. His first show on WFMT, Sounds of the City, took him into the streets of his beloved Chicago with a tape recorder, recording personal narratives of the denizens of the city. Division Street: America (1967), an exploration of the personal narratives of six dozen diverse individuals residing in Chicago, established Terkel&#39;s signature publishing regimen: editing his on-air interviews into highly crafted textual works. The books that followed&#x2014;many now ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Studs Terkel Radio Archive (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Studs Terkel Radio Archive (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 10697 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737003 <p></p> Historian Sydney Nathans arrived in western Alabama in 1978 hoping to research 114 enslaved persons who slave owner Paul Cameron moved from North Carolina to Alabama in 1844; he planned to interview &#x22;descendants who possessed an oral tradition&#x22; (x). He started his work with Alice Hargress, one of the descendants, and at their first meeting he introduced his project, telling her, &#x22;I&#39;m doing research on black people brought out from North Carolina to Alabama in 1844&#x2026; [Paul Cameron] went back to North Carolina, but left the people, and after freedom came, it looks like many of them stayed.&#x22; Hargress simply replied, &#x22;That&#39;s right&#x22; (7). As early as this first conversation, the project became not only a history based on ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall A Mind to Stay: White Plantation, Black Homeland by Sydney Nathans (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US A Mind to Stay: White Plantation, Black Homeland by Sydney Nathans (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 6492 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737004 <p></p> The collection of oral histories has long been established as a requisite component of historical research in Africa. It is widely recognized that oral evidence provides us with perspectives that cannot be found in other sources and adds new layers and angles to our knowledge of the African past. As with all types of evidence, oral histories have their shortcomings and vulnerabilities, and many scholars have contributed to a lengthy and vital debate around the practice of collecting and analyzing oral data to ensure its accuracy and reliability. Historians headed to the field to collect oral evidence can rely on a large body of literature to prepare for some of the obstacles and challenges they likely will face. ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Space as Testimony: Collecting Oral Histories Among Nigerian Seamen 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Space as Testimony: Collecting Oral Histories Among Nigerian Seamen 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 77303 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737005 <p></p> In the closing pages of Encounter on the Great Plains Karen V. Hansen, Professor of Sociology and Women&#39;s Studies at Brandeis University, offers readers the opinion of Bjorne Knudson, a second-generation Norwegian immigrant whose family homesteaded on North Dakota&#39;s Spirit Lake Indian Reservation. Knudson, who Hansen interviewed in 1999, let forth with &#x22;well that&#39;s where I think they done a mistake. They let this land out to the white people to homestead or buy it or do anything. &#x2026; I think they should have kept the white people off the reservation entirely&#x22; (237).Thereby, Knudson succinctly sums up the issue before modern scholars of the relationships between Native American populations and those of European ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Encounter on the Great Plains: Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930 by Karen V. Hansen (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Encounter on the Great Plains: Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930 by Karen V. Hansen (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 5394 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737006 <p></p> Until recently, there was a perception that the northern United States was a safe haven throughout history for African Americans who fled enslavement and, later, Jim Crow in the US South. Many people have similarly conceptualized Canada as the idyllic escape from racial discrimination in the United States. In the 1990s, historians began recognizing and exposing the racism and racial discrimination outside the South. Recent events have also publicly brought to light the long history of discrimination and inequality across the United States. We Are the Roots: Black Settlers and Their Experiences of Discrimination on the Canadian Prairies builds on this effort to dismantle the misconceptions about African Americans ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall We are the roots: Black Settlers and their Experiences of Discrimination on the Canadian Prairies by Dr. Jenna Bailey and Dr. David Este (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US We are the roots: Black Settlers and their Experiences of Discrimination on the Canadian Prairies by Dr. Jenna Bailey and Dr. David Este (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 10249 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737007 <p></p> In his historically informative book, Struggling for Ordinary, Andrew Cavalcante tracks trans [in]visibility from the early part of the twentieth century to the beginning of the twenty-first&#x2014;following its gradual move from the margins into America&#39;s cultural mainstream via changes in technology, be it the internet, social media, or streaming services. For Cavalcante, these changes &#x22;not only engage our mind but also our bodies, our sense, and emotions,&#x22; and he sees them as tools to gauge the ways in which trans and gender variant participants in his study adapted their everyday lives concomitantly (126).Cavalcante opens his book with an excellent chapter on the history of trans visibility&#x2014;exposed as overwhelmingly ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Struggling for Ordinary: Media and Transgender Belonging in Everyday Life by Andre Cavalcante (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Struggling for Ordinary: Media and Transgender Belonging in Everyday Life by Andre Cavalcante (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 8370 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737008 <p></p> In recent years, scholars have documented the emergence of oral history and community archiving initiatives that preserve the perspectives of communities underrepresented within what we call &#x22;mainstream heritage&#x22;: the predominate historical narratives that often originate from majority, not minority, groups and are preserved and presented in various heritage institutions of nation states and other geopolitical entities.1 These efforts have come at a time when educational institutions that support oral history initiatives are encountering increasingly diverse research subjects and public audiences, particularly in regions with expanding immigrant and refugee populations. Globally, the number of people living outside ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Migration and Inclusive Transnational Heritage: Digital Innovation and the New Roots Latino Oral History Initiative 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Migration and Inclusive Transnational Heritage: Digital Innovation and the New Roots Latino Oral History Initiative 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 89787 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737009 <p></p> The Oklahoma State University (OSU) Library launched the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program (OOHRP) in 2007 to &#x22;record the history of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University.&#x22; In 2016, OOHRP began producing its first podcast, Amplified Oklahoma, to share material from its oral history collection with people beyond the walls of the OSU Library. In each podcast episode, Amplified Oklahoma&#39;s team uses excerpts from collected interviews to tell a story about a piece of Oklahoma&#39;s past. OOHRP has produced almost forty of these episodes since 2016, sharing stories on such topics as farming, weather, military service, gender, sexuality, and love. OOHRP faculty member Juliana Nykolaiszyn hosted and co-hosted the first ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Amplified Oklahoma (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Amplified Oklahoma (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 8438 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737010 <p></p> In my first year of full-time teaching in 2011, I was faced with a particularly ornery group of students. In a class on conflict analysis&#x2014;that is, a course in which I teach students how to research, understand, and analyze various kinds of conflicts with an eye towards being able to formulate plans to resolve them&#x2014;my students reproached me for not lecturing enough and for asking too many questions. They wanted me to transmit knowledge, not ask them what they thought. During a midterm evaluation exercise, a student submitted what I always refer to as my favorite-ever piece of student feedback: &#x22;You ask many questions, but you don&#39;t give many answers.&#x22; This is, indeed, an apt description of my teaching style. It did ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall "You ask many questions, but you don't give many answers": Embracing the Mess in Conflict Studies Classrooms 2019-10-25 text/html en-US "You ask many questions, but you don't give many answers": Embracing the Mess in Conflict Studies Classrooms 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 63389 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737011 <p></p> In this book, authors Beverly B. Allen and Fawn-Amber Montoya present best practices and case studies for how to use oral history as a natural bridge to connect a university and community. Generally speaking, often universities and their surrounding communities have a complicated, fraught, and messy history, but through the case studies and examples the authors provide, this book does a good job &#x22;illustrat[ing] how the community and the university can collaborate to preserve and celebrate their rich history and how archival collections contribute to the preservation of this history&#x22; (1).Many archives, special collections, and other cultural heritage institutions are actively trying to acquire collections and ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Practicing Oral History to Connect University to Community by Beverly B. Allen and Fawn-Amber Montoya (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Practicing Oral History to Connect University to Community by Beverly B. Allen and Fawn-Amber Montoya (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 7126 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737012 <p></p> In this article, I address the tremendous potential for, as well as the limits of, teaching oral history in Turkey&#x2014;a country characterized by populist authoritarianism, long-standing low-intensity conflict, contestation over a violent past, and a strong legacy of nationalist history.1 I began teaching oral history to university students around 2000. At the time, oral history was relatively new to Turkey. History, on the other hand, is a required subject, with textbooks the Ministry of National Education centrally produces.2 Still taught by rote, the official narrative aims to inculcate pride in the glories of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, with a focus on Turkishness: the constructed national identity of ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall National Education Meets Critical Pedagogy: Teaching Oral History in Turkey 2019-10-25 text/html en-US National Education Meets Critical Pedagogy: Teaching Oral History in Turkey 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 129900 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737013 <p></p> With over 450 stories, the First Days Project delivers a glimpse of the twentieth century immigrant experience to an online audience, unassumingly sharing immigrants&#39; stories of their first days in the United States. Created by the South Asian American Digital Archive organization (SAADA), the project aims to &#x22;reflect the diversity of the American immigrant experience&#x22; through a &#x22;diversity of stories.&#x22; Although the stories are gathered from people who departed from locations throughout the world, the current plurality of narrators are originally from India. Since 2013, the project creators and partnering organizations (Global Nation from PRI, KBCS at Bellevue College, LatimerNOW, NBC News Asian America, The Seattle ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall First Days Project (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US First Days Project (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 7871 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737014 <p></p> Intersecting Histories: The Story of Her Skin started as a portion of the Still.Life. project, an exhibit presented at the Listening Through Time and Space: An Interactive Oral History Exhibit at Columbia University. Still.Life.&#39;s goal became telling the stories of Trinidad and Tobago women, passed on from generation to generation. Creator Nyssa Chow&#x2014;who describes herself as a writer, new media storyteller, and educator&#x2014;used still portraits as well as oral histories and atmospheric sounds to bring these stories to life and to the public&#39;s attention. The exhibit&#39;s visitors could enter a booth that displayed these portraits on large screens. It then played the sounds and histories surrounding the portraits. For the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Intersecting Histories: The Story of her Skin by Nyssa Chow (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Intersecting Histories: The Story of her Skin by Nyssa Chow (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 6869 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737015 <p></p> The fourteen voices in the edited text, Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary, present a shocking description of the institutionalized violence in the United States criminal justice system and its impact on the human psyche, families, and whole communities. The book is part of an oral history series published by Voice of Witness, a non-profit organization devoted to documenting stories of global injustice. Six By Ten consists of edited, transcribed interviews of currently and formerly incarcerated people held in solitary confinement, their family members, and one interview with a correctional officer who worked in close-custody and maximum-security segregation units, along with contextual materials described below.The ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary ed. by Mateo Hoke and Taylor Pendergrass (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary ed. by Mateo Hoke and Taylor Pendergrass (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 7860 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737016 <p></p> This essay is about oral history and ethnography, about the seductions of stories and their elusiveness when working with people with a troubled past and present. It is about the effort ethnographers and oral historians must make to hear difficult stories, especially when stories do not seem to be forthcoming and circumstances conspire against their telling. And it is about attending to these silences and trying to understand their place in a particular person&#39;s story, which is a part of a larger (his)story we are trying to piece together.In my experience, everyone who works with refugees, migrants, displaced people, or anyone with a difficult past is interested in personal histories. But refugee narratives&#x2014;indeed ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Refugee Narratives; Oral History and Ethnography; Stories and Silence 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Refugee Narratives; Oral History and Ethnography; Stories and Silence 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 34986 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737017 <p></p> This book makes a significant contribution both to analytic oral history and ethnography. A prize-winner at the American Conference for Irish Studies, it presents a recent, long-term study of the oral history of Packy Jim, a solitary bachelor in rural Northern Ireland. Author Ray Cashman hails from Indiana University&#39;s Folklore Institute, where &#x22;folklore&#x22; is explored using contemporary and transdisciplinary methodologies. Diarmuid &#xD3; Gioll&#xE1;in&#39;s Locating Irish Folklore: Tradition, Modernity, Identity (Cork: Cork University Press, 2000) observed that &#x22;there are few countries which offer as much scope for an analysis of this sort as Ireland.&#x22;Cashman enjoys a prime position within ethnographic approaches to oral history ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Packy Jim: Folklore and Worldview on the Irish Border by Ray Cashman (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Packy Jim: Folklore and Worldview on the Irish Border by Ray Cashman (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 8493 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737018 <p></p> Beyond Women&#39;s Words: Feminisms and the Practices of Oral History in the Twenty-First Century, as Sherna Berger Gluck explains in her foreword, arose from a challenge. In 1991 Women&#39;s Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History, edited by Sherna Berger Gluck and Daphne Patai, burst onto the oral history scene with searching questions for feminist oral historians. They and their authors were unafraid to confront essentialist assumptions about how we interview and what we hear in the voices we record. Like many other women oral historians, I have constantly gone back to that collection, regarding it as a key source when I research, write, and teach. Katrina Srigley, Stacey Zembrzycki, and Franca Iacovetta felt it ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Beyond Women's Words: Feminisms and the Practices of Oral History in the Twenty-First Century ed. by Katrina Srigley, Stacey Zembrzycki, and Franca Iacovetta (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Beyond Women's Words: Feminisms and the Practices of Oral History in the Twenty-First Century ed. by Katrina Srigley, Stacey Zembrzycki, and Franca Iacovetta (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 17308 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737019 <p></p> Everything should have an arc, some form of resolution or non-resolution (purposeful open-endedness as opposed to a kind of fading away or spiraling outward), a dominant theme. This forces the contradictions inherent in almost all human experience, especially those at the edges of normalcy, to fall away or fall in line.Commenting on an earlier draft of this article, Anna Sheftel wrote: &#x22;It&#39;s funny how much your and my work comes down to the truism that &#39;survivors are people,&#39; and yet which somehow isn&#39;t a truism to most!&#x22; Anna was right on both counts. Of course, as Anna&#39;s scare quotes intend, no one denies the humanity of Holocaust survivors. But they are also not quite people like ourselves. The images of ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall The Humanities of Contingency: Interviewing and Teaching Beyond "Testimony" with Holocaust Survivors 2019-10-25 text/html en-US The Humanities of Contingency: Interviewing and Teaching Beyond "Testimony" with Holocaust Survivors 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 89647 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737020 <p></p> Cary Cordova presents the Mission District of San Francisco, California as a center of continuous tension between cultural affirmation and the displacement of Latino populations. As both cultural and art history, The Heart of the Mission traces the development of this Latino cultural enclave and sets it against emergent art scenes at key historical moments primarily between 1930 and 1990.Cordova argues that the West Coast Latin jazz scene in the Latin Quarter, now the Mission District, created a bohemian and exotic atmosphere in the 1930s and 1940s that attracted the Beat counterculture to North Beach by the 1950s. Thus American bohemianism emerged as an appropriation of a pan-Latino culture. Although Beat culture ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco by Cary Cordova (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco by Cary Cordova (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 8537 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737021 <p></p> Season 1 of the podcast Slow Burn looks back at Watergate, one of the biggest scandals of recent US History, via speculation and oral histories of people involved with it. It starts out with a hook&#x2014;introducing the &#x22;uncovered&#x22; players surrounding the Nixon administration during the scandal. Then it catches the listener up on details surrounding the political scandal through a narrative retelling of the situation by podcast creator and host, Slate journalist Leon Neyfakh. He discusses the developments of the event interspersed with audio clips from original interviews with people involved. He weaves his storytelling with these audio clips, supporting his arguments and lending himself credibility by having firsthand ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Slow Burn by Leon Neyfakh (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Slow Burn by Leon Neyfakh (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 8734 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737022 <p></p> If oral history has a rich legacy of ethical considerations to conduct respectful research with narrators, certainly that attention to contextual knowledge, cultural sensitivity, protocol, and a relational approach are of utmost importance when conducting oral history projects with Indigenous peoples. These ethical principles start with the project preparation and continue beyond the completed project. The American Indian Oral History Manual: Making Many Voices Heard, therefore, equips oral history practitioners of projects mostly led by and for tribal communities with guidelines specific to the latter&#39;s interests. Situated in a context of colonial legacy where Indigenous peoples reappropriate representations, as ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall The American Indian Oral History Manual: Making Many Voices Heard by Charles E. Trimble, Barbara W. Sommer, and Mary Kay Quinlan (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US The American Indian Oral History Manual: Making Many Voices Heard by Charles E. Trimble, Barbara W. Sommer, and Mary Kay Quinlan (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 9382 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737023 <p></p> The Schizophrenia Oral History Project, created by Tracy McDonough and Lynda Crane, is a nonprofit organization that shares audio-recorded interviews of people living with schizophrenia. The organization&#39;s mission is to present life stories&#x2014;not just illness narratives&#x2014;to educate the public, humanize people with mental illness, and reduce the stigma surrounding schizophrenia.The project does this in two ways: first, by posting edited interviews, written stories, and photographs on its website; and second, by developing and conducting public presentations at universities and hospitals, health care organizations, and advocacy groups. While there are other media outlets that have interviewed people with schizophrenia ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall The Schizophrenia Oral History Project by Tracy McDonough and Lynda Crane (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US The Schizophrenia Oral History Project by Tracy McDonough and Lynda Crane (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 9173 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737024 <p></p> Using document collections, contemporary newspapers (especially the Raleigh News and Observer), and almost one hundred oral history interviews with ordinary North Carolinians, Julian Pleasants argues that World War II, more than the New Deal, ushered in the modern age for the Tar Heel State: the war ended the Great Depression and changed North Carolina from a rural, provincial, poor, racist society to an urban, industrialized state.At the outset of the war, North Carolina was one of the poorest states in the Union, with per capita income ranked forty-fifth out of the forty-eight states. In World War II, it had the highest draft rejection rate of all the states as determined by the Selective Service. Illiteracy and ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Home Front: North Carolina during World War II by Julian M. Pleasants (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Home Front: North Carolina during World War II by Julian M. Pleasants (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 6612 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737025 <p></p> Education Professor Christine Lemley has produced a slim book in which she joins two passions: the methodology of oral history and culturally relevant pedagogy. In her classes, oral history is used critically to illuminate power systems, reveal untold histories of inequity, and work collaboratively with communities to honor narrators. Her book serves as an introduction to critical oral history and a guide for using it in classes.Lemley explains critical oral history (COH) is a process that is not value-neutral. It has the explicit purpose &#x22;to promote transformative justice&#x22; (7). Linking it to critical race theory she continues, &#x22;All generations of critical theorists are committed to social inquiry that strives to ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Practicing Critical Oral History: Connecting School and Community by Christine K. Lemley (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Practicing Critical Oral History: Connecting School and Community by Christine K. Lemley (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 5037 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737026 <p></p> G. C. Murphy&#39;s began its life as one of the most iconic of American businesses&#x2014;the five-and-dime store. Founded in 1899 in western Pennsylvania, its early stores were located in smaller towns dominated by mining and steel mills, and its success reflects a time when malls were not ubiquitous and rural residents shopped in the downtown area of their hometowns. Murphy&#39;s would ultimately expand its empire over the next eight decades, doing battle with wellknown rivals such as Woolworth&#39;s, Kresge (and later Kmart), Ames, and McCrory, and while the stores may not have been as universally famous as those of its competitors, they generated a fierce loyalty in the towns they called home. Many a business district in the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall For the Love of Murphy's: The Behind-the-Counter Story of a Great American Retailer by Jason Togyer (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US For the Love of Murphy's: The Behind-the-Counter Story of a Great American Retailer by Jason Togyer (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 6446 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737027 <p></p> Through oral history, the Civil Rights in Black and Brown (CRBB) Project dedicates itself to documenting the mid-twentieth century civil rights movements in Texas. The project&#39;s &#x22;About&#x22; page asserts that while most projects focus on black versus white or Anglo versus Mexican, this project synthesizes them: white Anglo versus black and Mexican. Unstated but evident from the racial makeup of the narrators, the project also aims to provide a voice to the African American and Mexican communities to tell their story of racial discrimination during this era.The CRBB makes each interview freely available for scholarly research and other use. To the disappointment of seasoned oral historians, the website mentions little of ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Oral Histories of the Multiracial Freedom Struggles in Texas (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Oral Histories of the Multiracial Freedom Struggles in Texas (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 7152 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737028 <p></p> In Making Gay History, non-fiction writer Eric Marcus uses excerpts of sixty-four oral history interviews with activists, educators, and leaders of the lesbian and gay civil rights movement, along with their allies, to tell the story of the struggle for lesbian and gay civil rights in the second half of the twentieth century.What is new in Marcus&#39;s work are narrators&#39; insights on the founding, innerworkings, and politics of the most prominent lesbian and gay organizations in the United States between the end of World War II and September 11, 2001. Making Gay History&#39;s greatest strength is its collection of narrators who encompass a virtual &#x22;who&#39;s who&#x22; of the LGBT community. These leaders provide fascinating ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Making Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights by Eric Marcus (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Making Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights by Eric Marcus (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 9561 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737029 <p></p> What can an oral history project on the experiences of squatters in a rundown section of New York City tell us about the real and the possible relationships between identity, labor, class, homeownership, citizenship, and capitalism at the turn of the twenty-first century? In Ours to Lose, anthropologist and oral historian Amy Starecheski chronicles and analyzes the rise of squatting in New York City&#39;s Lower East Side, focusing on the experiences of a few squatting communities in the area as they formed, grew, and eventually went through the complex, painful, and transformative process of legalization into low-income housing or co-ops in the early 2000s. Her study invites the reader in to what is likely an ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City by Amy Starecheski (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City by Amy Starecheski (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 8615 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737030 <p></p> Late in Silicon City, author Cary McClelland takes readers one thousand feet above San Francisco to the top of the Salesforce Tower that soars a couple hundred feet above the next-tallest skyscraper. &#x22;The view tells a grand story,&#x22; McClelland writes, &#x22;a shining El Dorado, finally discovered. But it&#39;s a story that neglects many of the characters at its feet&#x22; (209). McClelland uses oral history interviews to let those Bay Area characters tell their own stories&#x2014;tales that have been eclipsed by the technology narrative overshadowing San Francisco just as the Salesforce Tower does.Following in Studs Terkel&#39;s footsteps, McClelland offers edited first-person accounts culled from conversations with over 150 Bay Area ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley by Cary McClelland (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley by Cary McClelland (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 7686 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737031 <p></p> The chance to reflect on oral history pedagogy in the fall of 2017 came at a good time for me. Soon after I joined the National Park Service (NPS) in 2009, I began teaching oral history workshops for NPS staff. Colleagues and I tried to make the best of a training format that compressed time available to teach and learn, but I nonetheless worried that the workshops shortchanged participants when compared with college classes that allow more opportunities for reading, practice, and reflection. I even wondered if workshops, in general, undermined oral history&#39;s credibility as a method because they implied that learning how to do oral history can be absorbed quickly. To be sure, workshops throughout our field come in ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Is Half a Loaf Better than None? Reflections on Oral History Workshops 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Is Half a Loaf Better than None? Reflections on Oral History Workshops 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 60727 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737032 <p></p> Readers of this journal might recognize the name Terni from Alessandro Portelli&#39;s The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1991), where the town is compared with the location that would form the core of the author&#39;s recent work, They Say in Harlan County: An Oral History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010). Terni is an industrial city nestled in the heart of Italy, heavily bombed by the Allies in World War II because of its importance as a center for steelmaking. Portelli grew up in Terni and has been recording music and stories there since 1969. Biography of an Industrial Town is born out of this intimate relationship ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Biography of an Industrial Town: Terni, Italy, 1831-2014 by Alessandro Portelli (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Biography of an Industrial Town: Terni, Italy, 1831-2014 by Alessandro Portelli (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 6963 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737033 <p></p> Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: A Domestic Rap by Verta Mae, is a thought-provoking, delightful, and devastating read. The author examines the plight of black domestic workers in the United States in the early 1970s as told through a blend of sociology, storytelling, poetry, history, and memoir, all of which loudly amplifies the voices of the domestic workers. But to begin this review with an overview of the book without providing some background of its author would leave out much of the story. In the foreword to this reprinted edition, historian Premilla Nadasen describes Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, who passed away in 2016, as &#x22;the ultimate storyteller&#x22;; Vertamae described herself as a &#x22;culinary griot&#x22; (the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: A Domestic Rap by Verta Mae by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: A Domestic Rap by Verta Mae by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 9851 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737034 <p></p> The Archives of American Art (AAA) manages a well-known Oral History Program founded in 1958 that records the life stories of artists and other individuals involved in shaping the nation&#39;s visual arts. As of this writing, 2,373 oral history records display in their collections search. 1,212 have an audio excerpt available, and 1,296 have a transcript available. Additional facets for browsing the oral histories include Names, Occupations, Topics, and Themes. The Archives began providing access to oral history transcripts online in 2001 and the site notes that staff are &#x22;currently exploring ways to provide access to the audio online.&#x22; These podcasts are one effort to provide such access.In the website&#39;s content ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Podcasts: The Archives of American Art Oral History Collection (review) 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Podcasts: The Archives of American Art Oral History Collection (review) 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 9992 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035 <p></p> Listening to an audio interview can create a disembodied experience, as if eavesdropping on a private conversation with invisible participants, with the voice serving as the primary mode of creating meaning. This aurality of oral history is important; yet the physicality of the interview context is significant as well. Each interview occurs situated in a physical space, perhaps an office filled with the accoutrements of daily life&#x2014;photos of family and friends, books and journals piled high on desks and on overstuffed shelves, a menagerie of objects representing both fond and now-forgotten memories. Or perhaps the interview space is a sterile studio, creating a blank slate removed from day-to-day distractions. ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737035">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/389/image/coversmall Editors' Introduction 2019-10-25 text/html en-US Editors' Introduction 2019-10-25 2019 TWO Project MUSE® 5895 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2019-10-25