Oral history

Here are entered works on the technique of recording the oral recollections of persons concerning their knowledge of historical events as well as collections of such recollections. Individual oral histories are entered under the appropriate subject, e.g. United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945. Works on the technique of recording sounds of events for historical examination as well as collections of such recordings are entered under Aural history.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• History -- Methodology
• Oral biography

• Oral tradition

• Oral history -- Texas
• Oral history -- United States

• "Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are": An Ethnohistorical Study of the African-American Community on the Lands of the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, 1865-1918 (Williamsburg, VA: William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research, 1992), by Bradley M. McDonald, Kenneth E. Stuck, and Kathleen Joan Bragdon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jewish Memories (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Lucette Valensi and Nathan Wachtel, trans. by Barbara Harshav (HTML at UC Press)
• Living With Stories: Telling, Re-Telling, and Remembering (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), ed. by William S. Schneider (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Houston Reflections: Art in the City, 1950s, 60s, and 70s (2007), by Sarah C. Reynolds (HTML with commentary at cnx.org)

• In Our Own Voices: Conducting Life History Interviews with American Jewish Women (Brookline, MA: Jewish Women's Archive, c2005), ed. by Jayne K. Guberman (PDF with commentary at jwa.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Imagined States: Nationalism, Utopia, and Longing in Oral Cultures (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), ed. by Luisa Del Giudice and Gerald Porter (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Living With Stories: Telling, Re-Telling, and Remembering (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), ed. by William S. Schneider (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Oral Literature in Africa (second edition; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2012), by Ruth H. Finnegan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers

• Folk-Lore of Shakespeare (London: Griffith and Farran, ca. 1883), by T. F. Thiselton Dyer (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Popular Romances of the West of England, ed. by Robert Hunt (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Tradition Today: The E-Journal of the Centre for English Traditional Heritage (full serial archives)

• Memory and Re-Creation in Troubadour Lyric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Amelia Eileen Van Vleck (HTML at UC Press)

• Homeric Questions, by Gregory Nagy (HTML at stoa.org)

• Showing Signs of Violence: The Cultural Politics of a Twentieth-Century Headhunting Ritual (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Kenneth M. George (HTML at UC Press)

• Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World, Collected from Oral Tradition in South-West Munster, by Jeremiah Curtin (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• When We Began, There Were Witchmen: An Oral History from Mount Kenya (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Jeffrey Fadiman (HTML at UC Press)

• Oral Tradition (full serial archives)

• Following Tradition: Folklore in the Discourse of American Culture (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1998), by Simon J. Bronner (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Homeric Questions, by Gregory Nagy (HTML at stoa.org)

• Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (2005), by Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig (HTML with commentary at gmu.edu)

• Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration (c2011), ed. by Eric Christopher Kansa, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, and Ethan Watrall (page images at escholarship.org)
• Interpreting the Function of Stone Tools: The Quantification and Computerisation of Microwear Analysis, by Roger Grace (HTML in Norway)

• The Jewel of Seven Stars (based on the original 1903 version), by Bram Stoker
  • HTML at online-literature.com
  • page images at Google; US access only
• The Jewel of Seven Stars (1912 revised version), by Bram Stoker (Gutenberg text)
• The Mummy and Miss Nitocris: A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension, by George Chetwynd Griffith (Gutenberg text)

• Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument: An Administrative History (1992), by Peter Russell (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• The Marana Community in the Hohokam World (1992), ed. by Suzanne K. Fish, Paul R. Fish, and John H. Madsen (illustrated HTML at Arizona)

• AIDS: The Burdens of History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), ed. by Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox (HTML at UC Press)