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INTRODUCTION TO ORAL HISTORY

Welcome to the Institute for Oral History's updated oral history manual!

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• Discovering oral history: What is it?
• Understanding oral history: Why do it?
• Planning a project: Where to begin?
• Establishing ethical relationships
• Preparing legal documents
• Choosing & using digital recorders
• Choosing & using analog recorders
• Focusing & researching a topic
• Selecting interviewees
• Creating an interview outline
• Composing questions
• Making contact & setting up
• Getting the story
• Protecting & preserving recordings
• Indexing oral histories
• Transcribing oral histories
• Critiquing & citing oral histories
• Reaching the public with oral history outcomes
• Learning more: Resources