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Two Years in the Lives of Two English Teachers The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Irwan Azhari, Riandry Fadilah Nasution
Published in The Oral History Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Kimberly Smith
Published in The Oral History Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey’s Forgotten Shore The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Molly Graham
Published in The Oral History Review (Vol. 51, No. 2, 2024)
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Rikers: An Oral History The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Tina Craddock
Published in The Oral History Review (Vol. 51, No. 2, 2024)
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Light the Road of Freedom: Women’s Voices from Gaza The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Shilpi Malinowski
Published in The Oral History Review (Vol. 51, No. 2, 2024)
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The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball’s Forgotten Era The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Troy Reeves
Published in The Oral History Review (Vol. 51, No. 2, 2024)
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Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2024-08-08 John Weber
Published in The Oral History Review (Vol. 51, No. 2, 2024)
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A Black Women’s Practice: Oral History from Fisk University’s Ex-slave Narratives and the Black Women Oral History Project The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Anna F. Kaplan
Building on recent works that question a simplistic, White narrative of the history of academic oral history, this article focuses on the labors of Black women related to the field. It spans the fi...
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Literal Belonging: Safe Outdoor Spaces Modeling Oral History Making The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Alison Turner
In this article, I cite oral history narratives donated by people living and working at Safe Outdoor Spaces (SOS)—sanctioned campsites in Denver, Colorado—to propose that SOS sites (which follow a ...
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Tall Tales and Half-Truths: Negotiating Anxiety and Precarity in Contemporary Ahmedabad The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Rukmini Barua
This article explores the import of tall tales, half-truths, and fantastical narratives in historical scholarship. I draw from oral historical and ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the western In...
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Listening Projects: The BBC, Oral History, and the Nation in Fractured Times The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Margaretta Jolly
This article tunes in to the British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) heart-warming radio program, The Listening Project (TLP), aired from 2012 until 2022. Comparing TLP to its source model from th...
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Editors’ Introduction The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Abby Perkiss, Janneken Smucker, David Caruso
Published in The Oral History Review (Vol. 50, No. 2, 2023)
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Learning about Sharing Authority With the Gathered Voices of Malmö The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Robert Nilsson Mohammadi, Sima Nurali Wolgast
ABSTRACT For more than two years we were involved in a collaborative process with the aim of finding out how sharing life stories could ensure “the right to the city” in Malmö, Sweden. This process led to the formation of the Gathered Voices of Malmö, an association for social justice oral history that strives to become a community archive. This article is about how sharing authority was interpreted
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Oral History Indexing The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Douglas Lambert
ABSTRACT Oral history indexing (OHI) is a set of practices for audio/video content management that emerged with computer-based media. Through thematically defined passages within recordings, OHI provides electronically linked, timecode-level access to online oral history interviews and collections. Several institutions have developed multimedia OHI interfaces that, like an indexed book, allow cross-referencing
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The Evolution of Best Practice at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Oral History Program The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Leslie McCartney
ABSTRACT Using experienced-based examples from the Oral History Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, this article is intended to be of practical use for oral historians, archivists, and community organizers. It follows how the Oral History Program has implemented changes to traditional methods but continues to ethically care for their collection while maintaining long-term relationships with
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Getting it Right: Safeguarding a Respected Space for Indigenous Oral Histories and Truth Telling The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Rhonda Povey, Susan Page, Michelle Trudgett
ABSTRACT Indigenous stories increasingly challenge the Australian understanding of the relationships between colonizers and Indigenous experiences and perceptions of the postcolonial past. Indigenous oral history is becoming an integral and powerful aspect of oral historiography that includes Indigenous oral histories and stories as important components of Australian history making. Given that Indigenous
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Money Talks: Narrator Compensation in Oral History The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Fanny Julissa García, Nara Milanich
ABSTRACT There is little public discussion about the compensation of narrators in oral history and no guidelines regarding the practice. This article seeks to open up a conversation about this issue. Drawing on our experience developing an oral history project with Central American migrant families, we discuss why we came to believe that paying project participants was appropriate and necessary. We
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Fly Until You Die: An Oral History of Hmong Pilots in the Vietnam War and Prisoner of Wars: A Hmong Fighter Pilot’s Story of Escaping Death and Confronting Life The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Troy Reeves
Published in The Oral History Review (Vol. 50, No. 2, 2023)
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The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century: A Linguistic Analysis and Oral History The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Orel Beilinson
Published in The Oral History Review (Vol. 50, No. 2, 2023)
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Survival Schools: The American Indian Movement and Community Education in the Twin Cities. The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Cameron Vanderscoff
Published in The Oral History Review (Vol. 50, No. 2, 2023)
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Once Upon a Time in Iraq: History of a Modern Tragedy. The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Mia Martin Hobbs
Published in The Oral History Review (Vol. 50, No. 2, 2023)
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Children’s Voices from the Past: New Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Kimberly Redding
Published in The Oral History Review (Vol. 50, No. 2, 2023)
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Remembering Theodore Roosevelt: Reminiscences of His Contemporaries The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Rachel B. Lane
Published in The Oral History Review (Vol. 50, No. 2, 2023)
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Editors’ Introduction The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Abby Perkiss, Janneken Smucker, David Caruso
Published in The Oral History Review (Vol. 50, No. 1, 2023)
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“Not a Word Was Said Ever Again”: Silence and Speech in Women’s Oral History Accounts of Sexual Harassment The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Estelle B. Freedman
ABSTRACT Oral history collections provide rich evidence for understanding sexual harassment in the era before that term applied to unwanted sexual advances in schools and workplaces. Close reading of both speech and silence about sexual harassment in oral histories also illuminates women’s historical reluctance to recall or make public their experiences of sexual violence. Drawing on a large dataset
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“I Hope to be Part of South Phoenix History”: Community College Students Becoming Oral Historians The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Eleonora Anedda
ABSTRACT This paper discusses community college students’ responses to an oral history project about their own community, based in South Phoenix, Arizona. The South Phoenix Oral History (SPOH) Project is a research initiative operated by students, the vast majority of whom call South Phoenix home. Students take part in recording, processing, and analyzing their hometown history, making coauthorship
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Oral History in UK Doctoral Research: Extent of Use and Researcher Preparedness for Emotionally Demanding Work The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Verusca Calabria, Jenny Harding, Louise Meiklejohn
ABSTRACT Oral history is increasingly used in academic teaching and research across many disciplines and contexts in the UK. However, there is currently no accurate picture of the extent to which oral history is practiced at the doctoral level and the diversity of its disciplinary and institutional contexts. Similarly, there is no clear understanding of how doctoral students are prepared for doing
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Black Liberation 1969 Archive. Allison Dorsey et al. 2015 The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Justin Randolph
Published in The Oral History Review (Vol. 50, No. 1, 2023)
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Rhymes with Truck: The Manitoba Food History Project The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Janis Thiessen, Kimberley Moore, Kent Davies
ABSTRACT This article provides an overview of the federally funded Manitoba Food History Project, outlining its incorporation of students into the research and publication process and its use of a food truck as a mobile cooking and recording studio. It offers an examination of why other oral historians might—or might not—want their own food history truck.
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They Knew Which Way to Run (podcast) The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Kimberly C. Kennedy
Published in The Oral History Review (Vol. 50, No. 1, 2023)
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Composing the Blue Book: The Use of Oral Sources to Narrate German South-West Africa The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Renata Schellenberg
ABSTRACT This article examines the use of oral testimony in the 1918 British Blue Book, Report on the Natives of South-West Africa and their Treatment by Germany. The objective of this government publication was to investigate the former German colonial rule in the region and to expose critical shortcomings in the administration and maintenance of German South-West Africa. In compiling this document
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Making Better Historians: Using Oral History and Public History to Enhance Historical Training The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Kathryn L. Nasstrom, Tracy E. K’Meyer, A. Glenn Crothers
ABSTRACT This pedagogy-focused article, consisting of three essays, describes courses and course projects that were designed to engage students in the use of oral history to produce public and professional forms of historical presentation. Each essay describes the course content and design, then focuses on the significance of the project, the pitfalls encountered and how to overcome them, and lessons
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Editors’ Introduction The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Janneken Smucker, Abigail Perkiss, David Caruso
Published in The Oral History Review (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2022)
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Making Place and Community: Contrasting Lesbian and Gay, Feminist and Queer Oral History Projects in Brighton and Leeds The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Alison Oram
ABSTRACT LGBTQ communities across Britain have created dozens of local history projects, especially in recent years. Springing from distinctive local towns and cities, these oral history projects have mostly, since 2000, been publicly funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. This article compares the aims, approaches, and structures of queer community history-making over the past thirty years in two English
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Challenging the Badger Brand: The Ethics of Conducting Oral History Interviews with College-Athletes The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Alexandra Mountain, Kacie Lucchini Butcher
ABSTRACT This article examines three ethical problems that arose during our attempts to document the experiences of college athletes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. First: how do we, as white women employed by an institution responsible for oppression and marginalization, speak to community members that were harmed and neglected? Second, there are specific challenges associated with the collection
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Crisis Documentation and Oral History: Problematizing Collecting and Preserving Practices in a Digital World The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Malin Thor Tureby, Kristin Wagrell
ABSTRACT Collecting in times of crisis is a precarious task. In recent years, oral historians have considered the risks and pitfalls that so called crisis or rapid response collecting entail. However, in countries where oral history practices are not dominant within the cultural heritage sector, these discussions surrounding ethics and collecting have had little impact. In this article we problematize
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Adapting Critical Oral History Methodology to Freedom Movement Studies The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Geri Augusto, Wesley Hogan, Danita Mason-Hogans
ABSTRACT In the 1980s and 1990s, scholars James Blight and janet Lang created a methodology, called critical oral history (COH), as part of their investigation of the origins of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War. This article explores how our team of freedom movement veterans and scholars adapted the COH methodology during six years of experimentation between 2015-2021, as we drove for a
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Is Oral History White? The Civil Rights Movement in Baltimore, an Oral History Project from 1976, and Best Practices Today The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Holly Werner-Thomas
ABSTRACT What can a focus on a past oral history project on the Civil Rights Movement teach us about best practices and an antiracism approach today? This article grew out of the 2020 Oral History Association virtual meeting panel, “Is Oral History White? Documenting Race in Three Baltimore Oral History Projects,” and examines that question by investigating the McKeldin-Jackson Project, an oral history
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Free All Along: The Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Interviews The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Anna F. Kaplan
Published in The Oral History Review (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2022)
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Narrative Framings of Individual Agency: Life Stories of Soviet Farming in Ukraine The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Natalia Khanenko-Friesen
ABSTRACT Over the course of two years (2008-2010), 170 former Soviet collective farmers in eleven different regions of Ukraine shared their life stories with the researchers who worked on the project, Oral History of Decollectivization in Ukraine. Since the project utilized the in-depth life-story interviewing method, gathered accounts shed much light on how former collective farmers of Ukraine navigated
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On (Not) “Humanizing” Muslims: Challenge and Opportunity in an Oral History Project with American Muslims The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Elizabeth N. Agnew
ABSTRACT This article focuses on an award-winning oral history project with American Muslims in a small Midwestern city. It addresses the challenge and opportunity of oral history at a time of Islamophobic rhetoric and threats to Muslims’ status as Americans. The article first examines critiques of the premise that Muslims must be “humanized.” In turn, it draws on the philosopher Jill Stauffer’s work
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Histories and Memories in the Digital Age of Partition Studies The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Pippa Virdee
ABSTRACT Since the seventieth anniversary of India’s Partition in 2017, a wider public caravan of commemoration led by interested individuals and groups has joined academic studies of the subject. These are more popular among the South Asian Diaspora in the Global North (UK and the US), where they are a part of the “intellectual decolonization” agenda. The digital turn in oral history has been a catalyst
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The Precariousness of Home and Belonging Among Queer Refugees: Using Participatory Photography in Oral Histories in Vancouver, British Columbia The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Katherine Fobear
ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between oral history and participatory photography for queer refugees as they create differing affectual and mnemonic relationships to the past and present in experiences of belonging and home. By intertwining oral history interviews with participatory photography by sexual minority refugees, this research interrogates the intimate and ephemeral spaces
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Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Evan Faulkenbury
Published in The Oral History Review (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2022)
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A Grip of Time: When Prison Is Your Life The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Emily Dodson Quartarone
Published in The Oral History Review (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2022)
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Editors’ Introduction The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Janneken Smucker, Abigail Perkiss, David Caruso
(2022). Editors’ Introduction. The Oral History Review: Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 1-2.
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How is Oral History Possible? On Linguistically Universal and Topically Specific Knowledge The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Jakub Mlynář
ABSTRACT Conducting oral history interviews or using them as research and educational resources requires the (mostly tacit) background knowledge necessary for understanding an interview or its excerpts. Taking the topic of commemoration and remembrance as a case in point, and analyzing fifteen interviews in the Czech and Slovak languages from the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive, this
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Sensory Roadmaps: How to Capture Sensory Detail in an Interview and Why Doing So Has Exciting Implications for Oral History The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Holly Werner-Thomas
ABSTRACT Humans perceive and understand the world through the five senses—smell, taste, hearing, touch, and sight. It is therefore worth interrogating whether—and how—we as oral historians are making full use of this fact. This article argues that focusing on sensory perception not only brings oral history alive but also gives us a means to gain insight into how people come to know and understand the
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Toward an Ethos of Trans Care in Trans Oral History The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Elspeth H. Brown, Myrl Beam
ABSTRACT This article examines trans oral history within the current context of both increased trans visibility and neoliberal storytelling. We ask whether trans oral history projects simply exemplify a trans visibility that intensifies surveillance and neoliberal representational politics, endangering the most marginalized of trans people, or, rather, offer a different kind of political intervention
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Floodlines: The Story of an Unnatural Disaster. Podcast hosted by Vann R. Newkirk II The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Sheldon Yeakley
(2022). Floodlines: The Story of an Unnatural Disaster. Podcast hosted by Vann R. Newkirk II. The Oral History Review: Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 144-145.
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Climate Witness: Oral Environmental History and Community-Based Research—A Case Study from Trans-Himalayan India The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Stewart Weaver, Tatyana Bakhmetyeva, Daniel Wayne Rinn
ABSTRACT On August 5, 2010, a violent cloudburst dumped fourteen inches of rain on Ladakh, a mountain desert region in the far north of India accustomed to getting just three inches of rain in a year. Five years later, flooding recurred on a wider scale, destroying buildings, roads, fields, and orchards all over Ladakh and provoking a wide-ranging discussion among locals about the causes of climate
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Pachamama Oral History Project. Created by Anahi Naranjo. 2019 The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Olivia Arigho Stiles
(2022). Pachamama Oral History Project. Created by Anahi Naranjo. 2019. The Oral History Review: Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 142-143.
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Unfinished Business: The Politics of “Dissident” Irish Republicanism The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Margo Shea
(2022). Unfinished Business: The Politics of “Dissident” Irish Republicanism. The Oral History Review: Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 168-172.
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Mississippi Moments. Podcast The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Michelle Little
(2022). Mississippi Moments. Podcast. The Oral History Review: Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 140-141.
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Queens Memory: Podcast and Public Engagement The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Bridget Bartolini
(2022). Queens Memory: Podcast and Public Engagement. The Oral History Review: Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 133-136.
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Seeds of Something Different: An Oral History of the University of California, Santa Cruz The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Troy Reeves
(2022). Seeds of Something Different: An Oral History of the University of California, Santa Cruz. The Oral History Review: Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 162-163.
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Robert Rauschenberg: An Oral History The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-02-03 Maria del Carmen Barrios
(2022). Robert Rauschenberg: An Oral History. The Oral History Review: Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 148-149.
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Poll Power: The Voter Education Project and the Movement for the Ballot in the American South The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-02-03 Thomas Saylor
(2022). Poll Power: The Voter Education Project and the Movement for the Ballot in the American South. The Oral History Review: Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 166-167.
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Another Day’s Begun: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in the 21st Century The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-02-03 Bud Kliment
(2022). Another Day’s Begun: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in the 21st Century. The Oral History Review: Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 154-155.
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Strangers and Friends at the Welcome Table: Contemporary Christianities in the American South The Oral History Review Pub Date : 2022-01-28 Rachel B. Lane
(2022). Strangers and Friends at the Welcome Table: Contemporary Christianities in the American South. The Oral History Review: Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 156-157.