Chronicles Quote by 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

As audiences, when we are exposed to oral history projects not only do we learn but in some ways we also bear witness to…

— 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

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

I am not a qualified historian, but rather a teller of stories from history.

— Princess Michael of Kent

First and foremost, telling historical stories is very tricky because it is something that is known. It is not like you can tell a…

— Anthony Hemingway

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

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.

— Donald Creighton

“There's a peculiar dichotomy in the nature of almost anyone who calls himself a historian. Such scholars all piously assure us that they're telling…

— David Eddings

History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance.

— Donald Creighton

History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

— Hilary Mantel