Oral history is inherently about memory, and when oral history interviews are used "in public," they invariably both reflect and shape public memories of the pa

What stories do we tell about America’s once-great industries at a time when they are fading from the landscape? Pennsylvania in Public Memory attempts to ans

In the past sixty years, oral history has moved from the periphery to the mainstream of academic studies and is now employed as a research tool by historians, a

The first practical guide to research methods in memory studies. This book provides expert appraisals of a range of techniques and approaches in memory studies,

Portelli offers a new and challenging approach to oral history, with an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective. Examining cultural conflict and communi