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Oral History Association (home page : http://www.baylor.edu/~OHA)
From the OHA home page, you can access much useful information,
especially:
• Principles and Standards--a good guide to mutual responsibilities of interviewer and interviewee
http://www.baylor.edu/~OHA/EvaluationGuidelines.html#Principles and Standards
• Oral History Evaluation Guidelines, Oral History Association Pamphlet Number 3--a bit formal, but a very good summary of some issues to think about
http://www.baylor.edu/~OHA/EvaluationGuidelines.html#Oral History Evaluation Guidelines
The Oral History Experience by Dr. Barry Lanman, prepared for the Discovery Learning Community in collaboration with the Discovery Channel--this describes a highly structured process; some of the insights are very useful. The site includes:
• "Sixteen Steps in Creating an Oral History"
• "Interview Portfolio"
http://school.discovery.com/learningcomm/promisedland/teachandlearn/oralguide
The One Minute Guide to Oral History gives essential advice to
prepare for interviews. The URL is:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/1minute.html
Tips for Interviewers by Willa K. Baum--this is my favorite
very brief introduction.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/rohotips.html
Notes on Oral History in the Classroom by Marjorie L. McLellan,
Miami University--some good ideas about published sources on the
theory of oral history, and on published volumes based on oral
histories.
http://www.muohio.edu/~oralhxcwis/notes.html
Selected oral histories from the Oberlin Oral History
Project:
http://www.oberlin.edu/~EOG/OralHistories/OralHistories.html
An Impressive Example of a Website Built from Oral History
Materials:
"What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?" An Oral History of Rhode
Island Women during World War II. Written by students in the
Honors English Program at South Kingstown High School.
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html
A Website worth checking out that has very little to do with
oral history (although I could convince you it did if I had to) ,
but it is really an interesting site, especially for its use of
photographs is Doubletake Magazine, produced at the Duke
University Center for Documentary Studies.
http://www.duke.edu/doubletake/