“Oral history is a research method. It is a way of conducting long, highly detailed interviews with people about their life experiences, often in multiple interview sessions. Oral history allows the person being interviewed to use their own language to talk about events in their life and the method is used by researchers in different fields like history, anthropology and sociology.” PeopleWayPersonsLongDifferentUseUsedLanguageEventsFieldsResearchMethodInterviewsLife ExperienceMultipleSociologySessionAnthropologyResearchersConductingOral History Author:Patricia Leavy
“Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record.” PeopleStoriesMightRecordsHistoricalInterviewsDocumentsChroniclesOral History Author:Patricia Leavy
