Oral history

As the COVID-19 pandemic struck peoples throughout the world, it disproportionately devastated Native American communities.

In 2018, Palestinians mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, when over 750,000 people were uprooted and forced to flee their homes in the early days of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Through a lyrical narrative of her journey to Tibet in 2007, activist Canyon Sam contemplates modern history from the perspective of Tibetan women.

The United States is embroiled in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistanwars that seem as far from Americans' understanding as they are distant from our shores.

Nicholas Karamzin (1766–1826) was a remarkably active thinker and writer during a time that was trying to all Europeans.

Analyses the rhetoric of dissidents, outsiders and truth-tellers to challenge preconceptions about free speech and political criticism in the early Middle Ages.

In the early 1950s fisherfolk and other villagers around Minamata Bay on the western coast of Kyushu, Japan, began to suffer from mysterious and often fatal symptoms of what came to be known as Minamata disease.

In this book, Claire Puccia Parham reveals the human side of the project in the words of its engineers, laborers, and carpenters.

Inspired by the question of "e;what's next?

This book details the perspectives of women of African ancestry who witnessed a twentieth-century uprising in St.

Talking Back to the Indian Act is a comprehensive "e;how-to"e; guide for engaging with primary source documents.

A single word - Auschwitz - is often used to encapsulate the totality of persecution and suffering involved in what we call the Holocaust.

During the Vietnam War, the US Air Force secretly trained pilots from Laos, skirting Lao neutrality in order to bolster the Royal Lao Air Force and their own war efforts.

This book analyzes two Romanian villages - 2 Mai and Vama Veche - as spaces of relative freedom during the last decades of socialist rule.

Condemned as a fascist putsch in the East and praised as a 'people's uprising' in the West, the uprising of 17 June 1953 shook East Germany.

Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by The Times and Telegraph'Astonishing.

This book follows the development of industrial agriculture in California and its influence on both regional and national eating habits.

Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change.

How objective are our history books?

The powerful story of an art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by an award-winning poet, professor, and slam champion.

In this compelling collection of oral histories, more than seventy-five peacemakers describe how they say no to war-making in the strongest way possible--by engaging in civil disobedience and paying the consequences in jail or prison.

The increased participation of women in the labour force was one of the most significant changes to Canadian social life during the quarter century after the close of the Second World War.

Die Geschichte, wie wir sie kennen, ist oft die Geschichte der Mächtigen – geprägt von den Stimmen der Sieger und den Interessen der Herrschenden.

This volume pays tribute to Luisa Passerini, whose scholarship has had a major impact on feminist and other scholars around the world.

Angela Zusman offers an informative guidebook with step-by-step directions for planning and implementing intergenerational oral history projects, using youth to interview elders.

The first twenty-five years of life in post-socialist Europe have seen vast political, economic, and cultural changes, as societies that lived under communist rule struggle with the traumas of the past and the challenges of the future.

This is an unusual book in that it is an important contribution to social psychology and also an absorbing story of four strange years in a German prison camp of World War I.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Soviet philologist, literary dissident, and university professor Viktor Duvakin made it his mission to interview the members of the artistic avant-garde who had survived the Russian Revolution, Stalin's purges, and the Second World War.

This collection explores the intersections of oral history and environmental history.

Inner-city Sydney was the epicenter of gay life in the Southern hemisphere in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Corpus Linguistics for Oral History takes a step-by-step approach to presenting how corpus linguistics tools and techniques can be applied to oral history archives.

*Highly Commended by the British Records Association for the 2019 Janette Harley Prize*In September 1943, at the height of World War II, the Aegean island of Leros became the site of the most pivotal battle of the Dodecanese campaign as the British tried, in vain, to retain control of the island.

Like an old-fashioned hymn sung in rounds, Something's Rising gives a stirring voice to the lives, culture, and determination of the people fighting the destructive practice of mountaintop removal in the coalfields of central Appalachia.

Feeding Fascism explores how women negotiated the politics of Italy's Fascist regime in their daily lives and how they fed their families through agricultural and industrial labour.

Whilst many undocumented migrants in the United States continue to exist in the shadows, since the turn of the millennium an increasing number have emerged within public debate, casting themselves against the dominant discursive trope of the "e;illegal alien,"e; and entering the struggle over political self-representation.

Despite acute labour shortages during the Second World War, Canadian employers—with the complicity of state officials—discriminated against workers of African, Asian, and Eastern and Southern European origin, excluding them from both white collar and skilled jobs.