Audience Quote by Patricia Leavy

Moreover, it is so important that people have the opportunity to share their stories and have them documented. There have been large-scale oral history…

— Patricia Leavy

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

Oral history is a research method. It is a way of conducting long, highly detailed interviews with people about their life experiences, often in…

— Patricia Leavy

My book, Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research is about how researchers use this method and how to write up their oral history projects so…

— Patricia Leavy

One important part of historical recording is to get people of another generation to understand the feelings, the passion that went into social transformation.…

— Alix Kates Shulman

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

— Niall Ferguson

“It is a hard lesson to learn and a lesson we most of us need to learn at some point: We cannot assume to…

— Na'ama Yehuda

I'm called an oral historian, which is something of a joke. Oral history was here long before the pen, long before Gutenberg and the…

— Studs Terkel

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

— Ashwin Sanghi

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

— Leszek Kolakowski

Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them.

— Pamela Yates

I wrote a work of history, I looked at over 500 sources - I spent three-and-a-half years on the project. I think the most…

— Dana Goldstein