Anthropology Quote by 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

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

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

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

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'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

“Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental. People make history when they scale a mountain, ignite a bomb, or refuse to move…

— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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

— Donald Creighton

History is a group project where, like in high school, one person usually does much of the work but someone else gets to do…

— Jason Johnson

History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and…

— Bill Nye

History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance.

— Donald Creighton