INTRODUCTION TO ORAL HISTORY
MANUAL
Welcome to the Institute for Oral History's updated oral history manual!
For the entire introductory workshop manual, click on INTRODUCTION TO ORAL HISTORY in the box to the right. You may print the manual for educational purposes.
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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 digital recorders
• Using Digital Media
• Focusing & researching a topic
• Selecting narrators
• 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
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