Suggested Oral History Texts

Charlton, Thomas, Lois Myers, and Rebecca Sharpless, eds.  Handbook of Oral History (Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2006).

Dunaway, David K. and Willa K. Baum, eds.  Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology (Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 1996).

Ericson, Stacy, and Linda Morton-Keithley.  A Field Notebook for Oral History (Boise, ID: Idaho State Historical Society, 1997)

Perks, Robert and Alistair Thomson.  The Oral History Reader (New York: Routledge, 1998). (Revised version coming out later this year.)

Ritchie, Donald A.  Doing Oral History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).

Sommer, Barbara and Mary Kay Quinlan. The Oral History Manual (Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2002).

Yow, Valerie. Recording Oral History: A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2005)