Volume 37 of "Oral History Review" magazine
Volume 37 Issue 2 Summer-Fall 2010
Editor''s Introduction: articleKim Porter
ARTICLES: McCarthy
“Is Oral History Good for You?” Taking Oral History beyond Documentation and into a Clinical
Noah Riseman
Contesting White Knowledge: Yolngu Stories from World War II
Select this article: Anna Sheftel and Stacey Zembrzycki
Only Human: A Reflection on the Ethical and Methodological Challenges of Working with “Difficult” Stories
Select this article: Rob Perks
The Roots of Oral History: Exploring Contrasting Attitudes to Elite, Corporate, and Business Oral History in Britain and the U.S.
Select this article: Rina Benmayor
Contested Memories of Place: Representations of Salinas’ Chinatown
Select this article: Debbie Lee
Listening to the Land: The Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness as Oral History
BOOK REVIEWS
Select this articleNancy Anderson
It''s all for the Kids: Gender, Families, and Youth Sports
Select this articleLinda M. Baeza Porter
The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling Under Communism
Select this article: Mary Barr
The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship
Select this article: Teresa Bergen
Them that Believe: The Power and Meaning of the Christian Serpent-Handling Tradition
Select this articleJoanna Bornat
Negotiating Boundaries in the City: Migration, Ethnicity, and Gender in Britain
Select this article: Ted Buswick
Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock ‘N’ Roll Pioneers
Select this article:Donna M. DeBlasio
California Hotel and Casino: Hawai‘i''s Home Away from Home
Select this article: Luisa Del Giudice
Storie Orali: Racconto, Immaginazione, Dialogo (Oral [Hi]stories: Narrative, Imagination, Dialogue)
Select this article: Peggy M. Dillon
Crooked Road: The Story of the Alaska Highway
Select this article: Michael B. Dougan
Looking Back at the Arkansas Gazette: An Oral History
Select this articleMeagan Gough
Catching Stories: A Practical Guide to Oral History
Select this article: Hanna Griff-Sleven
It''s Good to be a Woman
Select this article: Timothy Hensley
48 Hours of Kristallnacht: Night of Destruction/Dawn of the Holocaust
This is Home Now: Kentucky''s Holocaust Survivors Speak
Select this article: Leonard Kamerling
Isuma—Inuit Video Art
Select this article: Daniel Kerr
Counting the Dead: The Culture and Politics of Human Rights Activism in Colombia
Select this article: Mary E. Kohler
Why i am not a Scientist
Select this articleGuy Lancaster
Boom Town: How Wal-Mart Transformed an All-American Town into an International Community
Select this article: Katherine Sharp Landdeck
Good Girls, Good Food, Good Fun: The Story of USO Hostesses During World War II
Select this article: Courtney A. Lyons
The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee
Select this article: Marta Marciniak
Southern Cultures: Fall 2009. Music
Select this article: Michella M. Marino
A Woman at War: Marlene Dietrich Remembered
Select this articleErin McCarthy
Old Leather: An Oral History of Early Pro Football in OHIO, 1920–1935
Oral History Review (2010) 37(2): 296-297 first published online July 22, 2010 doi:10.1093/ohr/ohq073
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Select this articleLaurie Mercier
The Good Times are all gone now: Life, Death, and Rebirth in an Idaho Mining Town
Select this article: Joanna Parson
Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky Tonk Angels: The Women of Barn Dance Radio
Select this article: Kimberly K. Porter
Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History
Select this article: Mary Kay Quinlan
Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists who Covered it
Select this article: Susan D. Rose
Voices from the Nueva Frontera: Latino Immigration to Dalton, Georgia
Latino Voices in New England
Select this article: Molly Rosner
Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home
Select this articleBetty Sample
Overcoming Katrina: African American Voices from the Crescent City and Beyond
Select this article: Emily Saunders
Hikâye: Turkish Folk Romance as Performance Art
Select this articleJody Sowell
A Different Shade of Orange: Voices of Orange County, California, Black Pioneers
Select this article: Pramod K. Srivastava
The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories
Select this article: Jeremy Strachan
Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music
Select this article: Sady Sullivan
Sisters in The Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City
Select this article: Kieran W. Taylor
Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times
Select this article: Elizabeth Thomas-Hope
Jamaican Hands Across the Atlantic
Select this articleSamuel R. Thomas
Maqam and Liturgy: Ritual, Music, and Aesthetics of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn
Select this articleJanice E. Tulk
Masters of the Sabar: Wolof Griot Percussionists of Senegal
Select this articleLois Wilcken
Caribbean Journeys: An Ethnography of Migration and Home in Three Family Networks
Select this article: Linda P. Wood
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