“Keith Bolender, Voices From the Other Side: An Oral History of Terrorism Against Cuba (London: Pluto Press, 2010).” — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The tatters of old stories are tangled, weathered, muted by long-held silences that succeeded loud feuds, and sometimes no doubt re-dyed a… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“We arrived and we thought, 'This is our time. This is our generation. We have a responsibility.' " @garyjkemp of Spandau Ballet… — Lori Majewski Copy Share Image
“My great-grandmama told my grandma the part she lived through that my grandma didn't live through and my grandma told my mama… — Gayl Jones Copy Share Image
I read Pamela Colloff's oral history about the campus shooting, '96 Minutes,' when it was first published, and my wheels immediately starting… — Keith Maitland Copy Share Image
Back in the day, you'd walk down to a street corner and see some people making a story with a hat in… — Rosario Dawson Copy Share Image
Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record. — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
I'm called an oral historian, which is something of a joke. Oral history was here long before the pen, long before Gutenberg… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
But you have to understand what that really did is that it opened these DVDs to be sources of oral history instead… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
I'm actually reading 'World War Z' again! It's incredibly realistic and it's written as an oral history through interviews with different characters.… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
When you're missing your two front teeth, that's honesty. That is a door to your oral history. You're not covering anything up.… — Iliza Shlesinger Copy Share Image
There are many important books on oral history. My book was the launch title in the Understanding Qualitative Research series with Oxford… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
To the best of my knowledge and of my effort, every lineage statement within 'Roots' is from either my African or American… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
After I discovered the real life of mothers bore little resemblance to the plot outlined in most of the books and articles… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
Admittedly, key archival documentation remains under lock and key and will be inaccessible for a long time to come. But enough material… — Fredrik Logevall Copy Share Image
Moreover, it is so important that people have the opportunity to share their stories and have them documented. There have been large-scale… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
“Revisionist history can be a tricky thing. Time passes, memories fade, oral history muddies, and transgressions, while sometimes subconsciously, are conveniently rewritten.… — Yvette Manessis Corporon Copy Share Image
“Human minds settle into fixed ways of looking at the world, and that’s always been true,” he said in a 1995 interview… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
Paul's One Way Out is a fresh, intelligently arranged, and satisfyingly complete telling of the lengthy (and unlikely) history of the group… — Ashley Kahn Copy Share Image
I met Mary [Hamill] in New York at my exhibition and when I told her about my oral history project she asked,… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
“Unix is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture. It is our… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I'm also developing my own narrative, because I'm the son of a widow. And so, while working with women and gathering their… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
One important part of historical recording is to get people of another generation to understand the feelings, the passion that went into… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
“she had taught a class in oral history at the community college, and Elner Shimfissle had attended with her friend Irene Goodnight.” — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
As audiences, when we are exposed to oral history projects not only do we learn but in some ways we also bear… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
Cases of genocide carried out as policy may be found in historical documents as well as in the oral histories of Indigenous… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
I'm doing a collaborative project with another artist, Mary Hamill. My project is to gather the oral history of war widows, starting… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
My book, Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research is about how researchers use this method and how to write up their oral history… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
“The cities change. The bus line is different. The train runs on another track, but the scene is the same. Everyday in… — Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor Copy Share Image
Oral history is a research method. It is a way of conducting long, highly detailed interviews with people about their life experiences,… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
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