Deze serie duikt in de boeiende wereld van de mondelinge geschiedenis, en verkent de methodologieën, theorieën en toepassingen ervan. Het biedt een interdisciplinaire benadering voor het verzamelen, analyseren en interpreteren van persoonlijke herinneringen en ervaringen. Lezers ontdekken hoe deze ooggetuigenverslagen gebeurtenissen uit het verleden kunnen belichten en unieke perspectieven op sociale en culturele geschiedenis kunnen bieden. Het is essentiële lectuur voor historici, sociologen en iedereen die geïnteresseerd is in het menselijk verhaal.
This volume presents the oral histories of Gulag survivors, making their powerful voices accessible to English-speaking audiences. It includes diverse interviews that highlight the range of the Gulag experience, its impact on Russian society, and draws comparisons to other historical catastrophes, while exploring themes of oral history and memory.
Iraq's Last Jews is a collection of first-person accounts by Jews about their lives in Iraq's once-vibrant, 2500 year-old Jewish community and about the disappearance of that community in the middle of the 20th century. číst celé
Gertrude Williams, Race, and the Baltimore Public Schools
Gertrude Williams shares her journey through nearly five decades in Baltimore's public schools, highlighting her role as a powerful principal who confronted and overcame significant challenges. This oral memoir delves into her personal experiences growing up black in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and her education at Cheyney State Teachers College. Williams reflects on the evolution of urban public education since World War II, offering both critique and advocacy for a system she passionately served, while emphasizing the vital components of effective education.
On March 24, 1944, Nazi occupation forces in Rome killed 335 unarmed civilians in retaliation for a partisan attack the day before.
Immigrants from Pakistan, Egypt, India, and Palestine who were racially profiled and detained following the September 11 attacks tell their personal stories in a collection which explores themes of transnationalism, racialization, and the global war on terror, and explains the human cost of suspending civil liberties after a wartime emergency.