Patching the past: Students and oral history

Frontiers

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 200-213

  Butler, Anne M ^a   Sorenson, Gerri W ^a  

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EID: 0041175389     PISSN: 01609009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3347100     Document Type: Review

References (14)

1. Gerda Lerner, Teaching Women's History (Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, 1981).
2. Lerner, Teaching Women's History, 23-27, 57-60.
3. I acknowledge my intellectual debt to the many professors who contributed course outlines to Annette K. Baxter's Women's History: Selected Reading Lists and Course Outlines from American Colleges and University (New York: Marcus Weiner Publishing, 1984). The various statements of purpose, course goals, requirements, readings, and projects included in that publication influenced the way in which 1 shaped my course. The syllabus of Ruth Rosen, winter 1984, is on pages 81-94.
4. Baxter, Women's History, 87-90. Rosen provided students with a set of guide questions to facilitate the interview, the answers serving as the basis for a short paper.
5. When Donald A. Ritchie's book, Doing Oral History (New York: Twayne Publishers) appeared in 1995, I used it to further my understanding of how to guide students toward effective family interviews. By 1996, I had used at different times Jill Ker Conway, ed., Written by Herself: An Anthology (New York: Vintage Books, 1992);
6. When Donald A. Ritchie's book, Doing Oral History (New York: Twayne Publishers) appeared in 1995, I used it to further my understanding of how to guide students toward effective family interviews. By 1996, I had used at different times Jill Ker Conway, ed., Written by Herself: An Anthology (New York: Vintage Books, 1992);
7. LaDonna Swan, Autobiography of a Dakota Woman (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991); and Sherna Berger Gluck, Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and Social Change (Boston: Twayne, 1987) as class readings to help students conceptualize the value of the autobiography.
8. LaDonna Swan, Autobiography of a Dakota Woman (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991); and Sherna Berger Gluck, Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and Social Change (Boston: Twayne, 1987) as class readings to help students conceptualize the value of the autobiography.
9. Lerner, Teaching Women's History, 18.
10. For discussion of many of the difficulties that intertwine with the value of women's oral history research and suggestions about how to be alert to these problems, see the essays in Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History, ed. Sherna Berger Gluck and Daphne Patai (New York: Routledge, 1991).
11. Gerri W. Sorenson, group interview, August 7, 1997, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
12. Sheryl Fain-Chance, group interview, August 7, 1997.
13. Tawna Hasty, group interview, August 7, 1997.
14. Gerri W. Sorenson, interview with panel members: Sheryl Fain-Chance, Luwanna Cook, Dean Dominguez, Tawna Hasty, and Brandy Oliver, August 7, 1997, Utah State University, Logan, Utah. Natalie Rose could not be present but mailed a statement to the team leader. Natalie Rose to Gerri W. Sorenson, August 5, 1997, Logan, Utah.