Quotes about Oral history

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In Uganda, I wrote a questionaire that I had my research assistants give; on it, I asked about the embalasassa, a speckl — Luise White, Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa
o — In the decision to use the bomb the base line had shifted down during the moral slide from the blockade to the area bombing of Germany and to the fire-bombing of Japan. Predictably one member of Stimson’s committee made the point that the ‘number of people that would be killed by the bomb would not be greater in general magnitude than the number already killed in fire raids’.
Hanging out is good historical methodology. — Jean Pfaelzer
The tatters of old stories are tangled, weathered, muted by long-held silences that succeeded loud feuds, and sometimes — Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World
How well do you know the people who raised you? Look around your dining room table. Look around at your loved ones, espe — Michele Norris
Generous listening is powered by curiosity, a virtue we can invite and nurture in ourselves to render it instinctive. It — Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
Today we say goodbye to a proud warrior. As we leave, each of us will take our members of [USS} Midway with us...you guy — XO John Schork quoted in Midway Magic, An Oral History of America's Legendary Aircraft Carrier