Hard Times; an Oral History of the Great Depression.
Hard Times illustrates the depression and progression of men and women respectively. It follows the role of women in Victorian society, where women were associated by specific, stereotypical traits such as sensitivity and transparency, but develops into a story highlighting the importance of femininity in society.
A tape marathon of the Depression days, edited by a Chicago radio man who employed the same approach with considerable success in a portrait of his city and its ills called Division Street: America (1967), This attempt to get the story of the holocaust.. . from an improvised battalion of survivors is quite effective too; the subject is eminently suited to the technique of oral history.
Review Essay Letting Sources Become the Narrative: Using Oral Interviews to Write History Victor W. Geraci Harder Than Hardscrabble: Oral Recollections of the Farming Life from the Edge of the Texas Hill Country edited by Thad Sitton. Number Six in the Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series. Austin: University of.
It was a collection of oral history stories from World War II, and ever since, I've wanted to read another of Terkel's works. Hard Times is also collection of oral history stories, this time dealing with the Great Depression. While there is definitely value in this work, I was a bit disappointed.
Making Sense of Oral History. Stories of Struggles in Hard Times. Includes articles, interviews, review essays, and book and media reviews related to the practice of oral history in a variety of settings and the use and interpretation of interviews for a variety of scholarly and public purposes.
The new book Australian Lives: An Intimate History originated from the Australian Generations Oral History Project, a fascinating, multifaceted attempt to explore the complexities of oral history in the twenty-first century.Between 2011 and 2014, researchers from Monash University recorded more than 1200 hours of audio from more than 300 people, in a collaboration between academic historians.
Mungo, Ray, Famous Long Ago: My Life and Hard Times with Liberation News Service.Beacon Press, Boston, 1970. Too late for this review, I’ve learned of a new book about Mungo’s LNS faction: Slonecker, Blake, A New Dawn for the New Left: Liberation News Service, Montague Farm, and the Long Sixties, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.Slonecker is a professor at Waldorf College.