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This handout will help you figure out how to use oral histories in essays. It will give you suggestions for how to prepare for and conduct oral history interviews and help you determine, based on your context and purpose, how to integrate raw material int

Everyone has a story to tell. When people tell stories about their own lives and those stories are preserved and passed down for future generations, it's called oral history. Oral history is history in the first person, the way we remember it, the way our

This lesson presents social history content and topics through the voices of ordinary people. It draws on primary sources from the American Memory Collection, American Life Histories, 1936-1940. Using excerpts from the collection, students study social hi

Step-by-Step Guide to Oral History