Books & Pamphlets (jump to articles)

Allen, Barbara, and William Lynwood Montell. From Memory to History: Using Oral Sources in Local Historical Research. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1981.

Baum, Willa K. Transcribing and Editing Oral History. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1977.

Brecher, Jeremy. History from Below: How to Uncover and Tell the Story of Your Community, Association, or Union. New Haven, Conn.: Commonwork Pamphlets/Advocate Press, 1986.

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

Davis, Cullom, Kathryn Back, and Kay MacLean. Oral History: From Tape to Type. Chicago: American Library Association, 1977.

Douglass, Enid H. "Oral History," in David F. Trask and Robert W. Pomeroy, eds., The Craft of Public History: An Annotated Select Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983.

Dunaway, David K., and Willa K. Baum, eds. Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History in cooperation with the Oral History Association, 1984.

Everett, Stephen E. "Oral History Techniques and Procedures." Washington: Center of Military History, 1992.

Frisch, Michael. A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990.

Grele, Ronald J., ed. Envelopes of Sound: The Art of Oral History. Revised edition. Westport, Conn.: Meckler, 1990.

Handlin, Oscar. Truth in History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979.

Henige, David. Oral Historiography. New York: Longman, 1982.

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

Ives, Edward D. The Tape-Recorded Interview: A Manual for Fieldworkers in Folklore and Oral History. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1980.

Jeffrey, Jaclyn, and Glenace Edwall, eds. Memory and History: Essays on Recalling and Interpreting Human Experience. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1994.

Lance, David. An Archive Approach to Oral History. London: Imperial War Museum, 1978.

Matters, Marion. Oral History Cataloging Manual. Chicago: The Society of American Archivists, 1995.

Mishler, Elliot G. Research Interviewing: Context and Narrative. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986.

Moss, William W. Oral History Program Manual. New York: Praeger, 1974.

Nathan, Harriet. Critical Choices in Interviews: Conduct, Use, and Research Role. Berkeley, Calif.: Institute of Governmental Studies, 1986.

Neuenschwander, John A. Oral History and the Law. Los Angeles: Oral History Association, Pamphlet No. 1, 1985.

Oral History Evaluation Guidelines. Los Angeles: Oral History Association, Pamphlet No. 3, 1992.

Oral History Index. Westport, Conn.: Meckler, 1990.

Ritchie, Donald R. Doing Oral History. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1994.

Schorzman, Terri A., ed. A Practical Introduction to Video History: The Smithsonian Institution and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Experiment. Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1993.

Smith, Allen, ed. Directory of Oral History Collections. Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryz Press, 1987.

Stielow, Frederick J. The Management of Oral History Sound Archives. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Stricklin, David, and Rebecca Sharpless, eds. The Past Meets the Present: Essays on Oral History. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1988.

Thompson, Paul. Oral History: The Voice of the Past. Revised Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Vansina, Jan. Oral Tradition as History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.

Benison, Saul. "Reflections on Oral History." American Archivist 28 (January 1965): 71-77.

Blatz, Perry K. "Craftsmanship and Flexibility in Oral History: A Pluralistic Approach to Methodology and Theory." The Public Historian 12 (Fall 1990): 7-22.

Clark, E. Culpepper, Michael J. Hyde, and Eva N. McMahan. "Communication in the Oral History Interview: Investigating Problems of Interpreting Oral Data." International Journal of Oral History 1 (February 1980): 28-40.

Douglass, Enid H. "Oral History and Public History." Oral History Review 8 (1980): 1-5.

Frank, Benis M. "Oral History for the Military Collector and Historian." Military Collector & Historian 37 (Winter 1985):
188-89.

Grele, Ronald J. "On Using Oral History Collections: An Introduction." The Journal of American History 74
(September 1987): 570-78.

Morrissey, Charles T. "Public Historians and Oral History: Problems of Concept and Methods." The Public Historian
2 (Winter 1980): 22-29.

Moss, William W. "Oral History: An Appreciation." American Archivist 40 (October 1987): 429-39.

Neuenschwander, John. "Remembrance of Things Past: Oral Historians and Long-Term Memory." Oral History Review
6 (1978): 45-53.

"OHR Cumulative Index, 1973-1995, Vols. 1-22." Oral History Review 23 (Summer 1996): 68-191.

Ritchie, Donald A., Holly Cowan Shulman, Richard S. Kirkendall, and Terry Birdwhistle. "Interviews as Historical Evidence:
A Discussion of New Standards of Documentation and Access." History Teacher 24 (February 1991): 223-38.

Rosenthal, Robert. "The Interview and Beyond: Some Methodological Questions for Oral Historians." The Public Historian
1 (Spring 1978): 58-67.