Oral Histories

Descrição
Most interesting or compelling works of oral history. Non-fiction only, please.
Baseada na etiqueta
oral history
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
de Svetlana Alexievich
2,348 membros
78 resenhas
½ 4.3
Member
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2
"I wish I could give my son a wild raccoon"
de Eliot Wigginton
49 membros
½ 3.5
Member
bluepiano
3
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
de Legs McNeil
2,057 membros
24 resenhas
4.1
Member
hipdeep
4
People of Providence: Housing Estate and Some of Its Inhabitants
de Tony Parker
46 membros
½ 4.3
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: Tony Parker is the British counterpart of Studs Terkel, and his books are equally good.
5
Talking Jazz
de Ben Sidran
41 membros
3
Member
hipdeep
6
The twisting lane: Some sex offenders (Panther modern society)
de Tony Parker
11 membros
4
Member
bluepiano
7
Hiroshima (Expanded edition)
de John Hersey
1,969 membros
37 resenhas
4.1
Member
hipdeep
8
Savage Grace
de Natalie Robins
200 membros
3 resenhas
½ 3.6
Member
bluepiano
9
Edie: An American Biography
de Jean Stein
774 membros
10 resenhas
4
Member
bluepiano
10
Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers
de Peter Golenbock
166 membros
2 resenhas
½ 3.7
11
Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies
de Josh Frank
89 membros
½ 3.7
12
The Wall in My Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain
de Words Without Borders
54 membros
4 resenhas
½ 4.4
Explicações
bluepiano : This is an anthology of various sorts of works rather than an oral history.
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The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
de Studs Terkel
1,696 membros
19 resenhas
4.2
14
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
de Studs Terkel
2,130 membros
20 resenhas
4.2
15
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
de Max Brooks
15,490 membros
713 resenhas
4
16
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
de Studs Terkel
1,287 membros
13 resenhas
4
17
Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project
de Dave Isay
826 membros
24 resenhas
½ 4.3
18
Doing Oral History
de Donald A. Ritchie
290 membros
3 resenhas
3.9
19
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
de Svetlana Alexievich
1,613 membros
62 resenhas
½ 4.4
20
Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel about the American Obsession
de Studs Terkel
516 membros
5 resenhas
4.1
21
The Great Divide: Second Thoughts on the American Dream
de Studs Terkel
311 membros
2 resenhas
½ 3.6
22
Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who've Lived It
de Studs Terkel
466 membros
4 resenhas
3.8
23
Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith
de Studs Terkel
486 membros
6 resenhas
3.8
24
The Oral History Reader
de Robert Perks
138 membros
3.9
25
American Dreams: Lost and Found
de Studs Terkel
488 membros
5 resenhas
4.1
27
Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times
de Studs Terkel
414 membros
6 resenhas
4
28
The Voice of the Past: Oral History (Opus Books)
de Paul Thompson
177 membros
1 resenha
3.8
29
Division Street: America
de Studs Terkel
315 membros
3 resenhas
3.9
30
Recording Oral History: A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences
de Valerie Raleigh Yow
97 membros
½ 3.3
31
The Oral History Manual
de Barbara W. Sommer
75 membros
1 resenha
½ 2.5
32
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
de Svetlana Alexievich
1,348 membros
44 resenhas
½ 4.3
33
I Thought My Father Was God and Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project
de Paul Auster
1,322 membros
28 resenhas
½ 3.7
34
My American Century
de Studs Terkel
283 membros
2 resenhas
4.1
35
Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology
de David King Dunaway
67 membros
½ 3.7
36
The Greatest Generation
de Tom Brokaw
4,741 membros
43 resenhas
½ 3.7
37
Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told By Its Stars, Writers, and Guests
de Tom Shales
1,629 membros
21 resenhas
3.9
39
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
de Garrett M. Graff
739 membros
38 resenhas
½ 4.6
40
My Folks Don't Want Me to Talk About Slavery
de Belinda Hurmence
261 membros
7 resenhas
4.1
41
Transcribing and editing oral history
de Willa K. Baum
63 membros
3
42
Making Gay History: The Half Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights
de Eric Marcus
668 membros
2 resenhas
4
44
Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History
de Wallace Terry
301 membros
8 resenhas
4
45
Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History
de Sherna Berger Gluck
74 membros
½ 4.5
46
Underground
de Haruki Murakami
2,583 membros
60 resenhas
3.8
47
Oral history for the local historical society
de Willa K. Baum
72 membros
4
48
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
de Chuck Palahniuk
5,031 membros
95 resenhas
½ 3.7
50
Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust: The Complete Text of the Film
de Claude Lanzmann
588 membros
5 resenhas
4.2
51
The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up
de Liao Yiwu
384 membros
14 resenhas
4
52
Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War
de Al Santoli
316 membros
5 resenhas
3.8
53
First Person America
de Ann Banks
98 membros
1 resenha
½ 3.4
54
Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
de Svetlana Alexievich
462 membros
18 resenhas
4.2
55
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
de Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy
437 membros
5 resenhas
4
56
Japan at War: An Oral History
de Haruko Taya Cook
346 membros
6 resenhas
½ 4.3
57
The Tape-Recorded Interview: A Manual for Field Workers in Folklore and Oral History
de Edward D. Ives
77 membros
½ 4.3
58
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
de Sarah L. Delany
1,366 membros
20 resenhas
4
59
Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember: Twenty-Seven Oral Histories of Former South Carolina Slaves
de Belinda Hurmence
201 membros
7 resenhas
½ 4.4
60
Curating Oral Histories: From Interview to Archive
de Nancy MacKay
47 membros
3
61
Catching Stories: A Practical Guide to Oral History
de Donna M. DeBlasio
41 membros
4
62
Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times
de Studs Terkel
264 membros
4
63
The Oral History Workshop: Collect and Celebrate the Life Stories of Your Family and Friends
de Cynthia Hart
104 membros
½ 4.5
64
Foxfire 4
de Eliot Wigginton
736 membros
4 resenhas
4.2
65
The Glory of Their Times : The Story of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It
de Lawrence S. Ritter
703 membros
16 resenhas
½ 4.5
66
Foxfire 5
de Eliot Wigginton
573 membros
1 resenha
4.2
67
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
de Svetlana Alexievich
573 membros
19 resenhas
4.1
68
Nearby History : Exploring the Past Around You
de David E. Kyvig
258 membros
1 resenha
3
69
Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It
de Nat Shapiro
185 membros
2 resenhas
3.8
70
Yes Yes Y'All: The Experience Music Project Oral History of Hip-Hop's First Decade
de Jim Fricke
112 membros
2 resenhas
½ 4.4
71
A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History
de Michael H. Frisch
37 membros
4
72
Battle of Valle Giulia: Oral History and the Art of Dialogue
de Alessandro Portelli
32 membros
½ 4.3
73
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
de John G. Neihardt
3,794 membros
46 resenhas
4
74
Humans of New York : Stories
de Brandon Stanton
1,056 membros
26 resenhas
½ 4.6
76
The Final Revival of Opal and Nev
de Dawnie Walton
674 membros
29 resenhas
3.8
77
Plain Tales from the Raj
de Charles Allen
387 membros
9 resenhas
½ 3.7
78
To Our Children's Children
de Bob Greene
374 membros
4 resenhas
4.1
79
Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember: An Oral History
de James Mellon
199 membros
1 resenha
4
80
During my time : Florence Edenshaw Davidson, a Haida woman
de Margaret B. Blackman
77 membros
½ 3.3
81
From memory to history : using oral sources in local historical research
de Barbara Allen Bogart
34 membros
1 resenha
4
82
The saga of Coe Ridge; a study in oral history
de William Lynwood Montell
24 membros
5
83
Daisy Jones and The Six
de Taylor Jenkins Reid
6,064 membros
334 resenhas
4
84
Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman
de Merle Miller
809 membros
8 resenhas
3.9
85
Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village
de Ronald Blythe
807 membros
18 resenhas
4
86
Foxfire 6
de Foxfire Fund Inc.
535 membros
1 resenha
4.2
87
Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs
de John Bowe
427 membros
9 resenhas
4.1
88
Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War
de Ronald Fraser
212 membros
2 resenhas
3.8
89
Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest
de Will Fellows
197 membros
4.1
90
Memories of Silk and Straw: A Self-Portrait of Small-Town Japan
de Junichi Saga
170 membros
5 resenhas
½ 4.3
91
Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America
de Paul Avrich
159 membros
2 resenhas
4
92
Oral tradition as history
de Jan M. Vansina
110 membros
2 resenhas
3
93
Recording Your Family History
de William Fletcher
105 membros
½ 3.7
94
Ties That Bind: Stories of Love and Gratitude from the First Ten Years of StoryCorps
de Dave Isay
104 membros
8 resenhas
4.2
95
Witnesses to the Holocaust: An Oral History
de Rhoda G. Lewin
66 membros
½ 3.5
97
The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral
de Alessandro Portelli
43 membros
½ 3.5
98
A Guide to Oral History and the Law (Oxford Oral History Series)
de John A. Neuenschwander
37 membros
99
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
de Orlando Figes
993 membros
18 resenhas
½ 4.3
100
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy
de Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis
525 membros
16 resenhas
3.9