Oral History: Value & Uses

  • Defining Oral History

  • Uses of Oral History

  • Social history/Voice to the voiceless
  • not only useful to historians, but journalists, anthropologists, sociologists - all those interested in collecting information regarding human behaviour
  • Enlivens static displays in archives, museums and galleries

  • The Popularity of Oral History:

  • Lost & Found Sound
  • Library of Congress Civil Rights History Project
  • Stephen Spielberg's Shoah Project

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