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The Value of Oral History in Corporate History Projects


What Is Oral History?

Thus, historians generally consider oral history as beginning with the work of Allan Nevins at Columbia University in the 1940s. Nevins was the first to ...

Oral History Collections - Digital Collections - Weber State University

Business at the Crossroads - Ogden City, is a project to collect oral ... These oral history assignments were created to help Weber State sutdents learn the value ...

The Oral History Manual, Fourth Edition - 9781538181683

The book emphasizes the importance of oral history practitioners providing context for their work so researchers and others who encounter the materials in ...

Oral History Resources

Fordham's Bronx African American History Project is regarded as one of the premier community based oral history projects in the United States. Founded in the ...

Oral History Archive - Center for Documentary Research and Practice

The CDRP's Oral History Archive holds the first-person testimonies of more than 2,000 contributors, and new projects continue to be added. Its range of ...

For beginners - Oral History Society

Getting started Recording oral history is a rich and rewarding experience, but there are many things to be borne in mind. Interviewing is a skill that has ...

A Jewish Oral History - UD Research Office - University of Delaware

... history of business, technology and industry, and extensive experience with oral histories. He has done such projects himself, including one ...

Why Oral History is Important

Oral history helps us reconstruct people's daily lives. It helps fill in the gaps by focusing on emotions, memories, reactions, and lived experiences.

Value and Use of Oral History in Business

Value and Use of Oral History in Business. Phyllis Jean Wente*. Eli Lilly and ... Because our history project is a study of management over the years, a ...

Oral History Project Grant - Hagley Museum & Library

Oral history projects must fit within Hagley's collecting scope; broadly the interconnected histories of American business, technology, and society. We ...

Oral history good practice guidance

Oral history is the recording and archiving of people's memories, feelings and attitudes. It plays a crucial role in expanding the historic ...

After the Interview: The Interpretive Challenges of Oral History Video ...

At its best, oral history offers a way to view history not only from the “bottom up,” but also from the “inside out.” It also provides us with an opportunity to ...

The value of oral history - Baltimore Uprising

Oral history has benefits that no other historical source provides. BY KATHRYN WALBERT. Historians and history teachers have a wide range of primary sources ...

Maryland Oral History Project

The achievements of extraordinary Marylanders - whether in business, the arts, education, athletics, or advocacy - are collected here, in their own words. The ...

Creating Oral Histories Using Historic Photographs

importance of oral histories ... They are meant to be a jumping off point to help you envision what your oral history project could look like.

South Asian Oral History Project - UW Digital Collections

The University of Washington Libraries greatly recognizes the importance of oral histories as an important primary source for historical narratives. This ...

Foundation Oral History Program

Oral histories reflect the personal recollections and opinions of the interviewees, and as such are subjective. As a natural component to historical research, ...

Oral History - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

Oral history is a method of collecting memories and historical accounts through recorded interviews, encompassing personal commentaries, myths, songs, and ...

George J. Mitchell Oral History Project - Bowdoin Digital Commons

Because oral history recordings are intrinsically informal, spontaneous, and candid, they characterize events and personalities in ways that are otherwise ...

The Importance of Your Family's Oral History - The Shadden Group

According to professional historians, oral history helps us round out our picture of the past. It enables us to create a fuller, more accurate picture of ...