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Test your critical skills with these exercises designed to explore how oral history works as historical evidence.

Ask yourself how these factors affect the outcome of each interview:

Who is talking?

Who is the interviewer?

What are they talking about?

Why are they talking?

What are the circumstances of the interview?

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