According to the Oral History Association, the term oral history refers to "a method of recording and preserving oral testimony" which results in a verbal docum

This text covers legal release agreements; protecting sealed interviews and anonymous interviews from courtroom disclosure; defamation; copyright; the Internet;

With extensive examples from both historical and social science literature, this book is a practical guide to methods of recording oral history. The author prov

"The recent development of digital audio and video recording technology has continued to alter the practice of oral history, making it even easier to produce an

In the past sixty years, oral history has moved from the periphery to the mainstream of academic studies and is now employed as a research tool by historians, a