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Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Celebrating the larger-than-life sacrifices of those awarded the nation's highest honor for bravery in combat, Beyond Glory is the first oral history of living Medal of Honor recipients, providing, in their own words, the stories of the enlisted men and officers who have endured nearly unimaginable scenes of combat. Since the Medal of Honor was established during the Civil War in 1862, only 3,410 persons have received it; often it is awarded posthumously....
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[1979]
Language
English
Description
A manual addressed to students rather than to teachers or researchers, Oral History: An Introduction for Students is unique among the "how to" books in the field, adapting some of the best methods of group oral history projects to the needs of individual students. Useful in courses devoted entirely to oral history, the book also addresses the wider audience of students who may choose to do oral research in the context of otherwise traditional courses....
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sister Bear interviews her grandmother for a school assignment, Gran decides to enter her old vaudeville act in the school talent show, and Gramps moves into the gardening shed.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Secondhand Time is a monument to the collapse of the USSR, charting the decline of Soviet culture and speculating on what will rise from the ashes of communism....
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Provides a comprehensive guide to oral history for researchers and students in diverse fields including history, sociology, anthropology, education, psychology, social work, and ethnographic methods. The text tackles not just the practicalities of interviewing but also the varied ethical, legal, and philosophical questions that can arise, and allows for dedicated discussion of both legalities and ethics. Other new material includes recent research...
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Contains thirty-seven narratives, drawn from letters, diaries, private memoirs, and oral histories in which American veterans describe their experiences serving in conflicts from the First World War to the twenty-first-century war in Iraq.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Morning in America. The "Star Wars" initiative. The advent of AIDS. The invasion of Grenada. Trickle-down economics. The Achille Lauro hijacking. The bombing of Libya. The Iran-Contra scandal. These are some of the major stories of the American 1980s, all of them part of an overarching story, the presidency of Ronald Reagan, the man whose personality, character, and conservative ideology defined the decade. Now these stories are retold by the men...