Akron Public Library

"The popular image of the settling of the American West has primarily been of cowboys, soldiers, miners, and trappers--the white men. In Homesteading Women: An Oral History of Colorado, 1890-1950 Julie Jones-Eddy brings to light the reality of the frontier through the oral testimonies of some of the women whose strength and perseverance were essential to the establishment of families, farms, and communities in the West." "Homesteading Women is a compilation...

Sixth testimonies of people who experienced the Holocaust.

"From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley during the political turmoil on Jamaica in the late 1970s"--

Oral History, the lyrical saga of a Virginia mountain family, follows four generations of Cantrells over more than a century. With each chapter, Lee Smith, a master of regional voices, adds another branch to a family tree that sings with secrets and sadness, beauty and joy. Researching an assignment for an Oral History course, Jennifer drives to the Virginia hills where her mother and father grew up. Raised by a stepmother, the young college student...

An oral history that reports, through transcribed recordings, text messages, photographs, illustrations, screenshots, and more, an epic prank war between twelve-year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper of New York City.

"In recent years, race has emerged as the leading issue in American politics. The clock has been turned back on the progress of the 1960s, and once again hostility, resentment, and racial conflict threaten to divide the nation. How do ordinary Americans see these changes? How do attitudes towards race affect their daily lives, their relations to their fellow Americans, their images of themselves? Despite hundreds of articles, op-ed pieces, and TV...

Parker, Britain's expert interviewer, finds a classic mid-American town in Bird, Kansas, surrounded by cornfields and prairie, with a population of just under 2,000.

interviews with local families

A social history of the creation of Rockefeller Center notes how its planning process was compromised by the Depression, and cites the eccentric personalities that oversaw its construction.

On t.p.: The complete text of the film. Presents an oral history of the Holocaust