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Table of contents Download Entire Essay (Acrobat PDF) How Do Historians Use It? Who Is Talking? Who Is the Interviewer? What Are the Circumstances of the Interview? Summary Model Interpretation Oral History Online Annotated Bibliography What Are They Talking About? Why Are They Talking? What is Oral History? Interpreting Oral History  

Try It Yourself!

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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