ABSTRACT
Students learn that oral history research is a process of recording narrators’ oral histories with their consent, transcribing the recordings, and archiving them in usable formats available as public history. Students also learn that conducting contemporary oral history requires managing technological issues from equipment to archiving, interpersonal issues from working with narrators to treating their stories ethically, and representation issues from transcription to editing and publishing multimedia presentations. Also in this chapter, students learn how to conduct conventional (non-oral) historical research using traditional methods involving documents, artifacts, and interviewing.
