Practicing Oral History with Military and War Veterans
Practicing Oral History with Military and War Veterans

Author: Sharon D. Raynor

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-12-30

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1000818764

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Practicing Oral History with Military and War Veterans focuses predominantly on conducting oral history with men and women of recent wars and military conflicts. The book provides a structured methodology for building interest and trust among veterans to conduct interviews, design oral history projects, and archive and use these oral history interviews. It includes background on the evolution of veterans oral history, the nuts and bolts of interviewing, ethical guidelines, procedures, and the overall value of veterans oral history. The methodology emphasizes how memory evolves over the years - when a veteran becomes more distant from the events of war, the experiences become individualized and personalized for each veteran based on location, time, place, and purpose of their service. The book also aims to improve understanding of the personal, ethical, and psychological issues involved in listening compassionately to veterans’ stories that may contain issues of trauma, gender, socio-economics, race, dis/ability, and ethnicity. Practicing Oral History with Military and War Veterans is an invitation to community scholars, students, oral historians, and families of veterans to actively participate in the oral history process and to embrace methodology that may help with designing and conducting oral history projects and interviewing war veterans.

What Was Asked of Us
What Was Asked of Us

Author: Trish Wood

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Published: 2007-11-02

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 0316023205

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In this modern-day successor to the Vietnam classic Everything We Had, award-winning investigative reporter Trish Wood offers a gritty, authentic, and uncensored history of the war in Iraq, as told by the American soldiers who are fighting it.

Chinese Comfort Women
Chinese Comfort Women

Author: Peipei Qiu

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-05-01

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0199373914

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During the Asia-Pacific War, the Japanese military forced hundreds of thousands of women across Asia into "comfort stations" where they were repeatedly raped and tortured. Japanese imperial forces claimed they recruited women to join these stations in order to prevent the mass rape of local women and the spread of venereal disease among soldiers. In reality, these women were kidnapped and coerced into sexual slavery. Comfort stations institutionalized rape, and these "comfort women" were subjected to atrocities that have only recently become the subject of international debate. Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japan's Sex Slaves features the personal narratives of twelve women forced into sexual slavery when the Japanese military occupied their hometowns. Beginning with their prewar lives and continuing through their enslavement to their postwar struggles for justice, these interviews reveal that the prolonged suffering of the comfort station survivors was not contained to wartime atrocities but was rather a lifelong condition resulting from various social, political, and cultural factors. In addition, their stories bring to light several previously hidden aspects of the comfort women system: the ransoms the occupation army forced the victims' families to pay, the various types of improvised comfort stations set up by small military units throughout the battle zones and occupied regions, and the sheer scope of the military sexual slavery-much larger than previously assumed. The personal narratives of these survivors combined with the testimonies of witnesses, investigative reports, and local histories also reveal a correlation between the proliferation of the comfort stations and the progression of Japan's military offensive. The first English-language account of its kind, Chinese Comfort Women exposes the full extent of the injustices suffered by these women and the conditions that caused them.

Heroes
Heroes

Author: University of North Texas. Oral History Program

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13:

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Catalog of oral history interviews with World War II veterans conducted by the Oral History Program at the University of North Texas.

Washington State University Veterans Oral Histories
Washington State University Veterans Oral Histories

Author: C. James Quann

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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Transcriptions of oral history interviews, chiefly on military experiences during World War II, of persons who were students or employees of Washington State University. Interviewed are: George B. Brain, Leo K. Bustad, Edna L. Cox, Harry E. Goldsworthy, Robert F. Goldsworthy, Randall A. Johnson, Eugene G. "Pat" Patterson, and Keith A. Smith. Interviewer: C. James Quann.

Col. Arthur L. Kelly American Military Veterans Oral History Project
Col. Arthur L. Kelly American Military Veterans Oral History Project

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After retirement, he (Col. Arthur L. Kelly) started interviewing World War II veterans. He wanted to capture their combat experiences so that the public and future generations could better understand the horrors of war, the suffering and hardships endured by the combatants, and the price and value of freedom.

Practicing Oral History in Historical Organizations
Practicing Oral History in Historical Organizations

Author: Barbara W Sommer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-06-16

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1315422204

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In this brief, practical guide, internationally known oral historian Barbara W. Sommer applies the best practices of contemporary oral historians to the projects that historical organizations of all sizes and sorts might develop.

Family Oral History Across the World
Family Oral History Across the World

Author: Mary Louise Contini Gordon

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-11-30

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1000986209

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Family Oral History Across the World presents a process for memorializing family histories, bringing together established oral history standards, exploratory research, and narrative data analysis. Based on and using a prequestionnaire and over 40 recorded interviews with people from across six continents, the analysis system used in the book presents material from these interviews that brings alive the experience of the family history journey. One of the guiding principles is to encourage readers to interview family members, but also others outside the family unit, and to produce a family history in whatever format works. The book illustrates this through the inclusion of many unusual formats and stories uncovered. The book is divided into a number of themes that emerged through the analysis of numerical questionnaire and narrative interview data. Parts I, II, and III cover changing family demography, case studies, and factors such as memory, emotion, and ethics. Part IV offers a pliable process and practice guide with input and examples from interviews. It also discusses developing approaches to presenting oral histories from both oral historians and other interviewers and writers, such as journalists. With case studies as well as example guidelines and templates, this volume is ideal both for academics interested in family history as well as professional genealogists and families themselves.

Student-Centered Oral History
Student-Centered Oral History

Author: Summer Cherland

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-04-23

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1040022111

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Student-Centered Oral History explores the overlaps of culturally relevant teaching, student-centered teaching, and oral history to demonstrate how this method empowers students, especially those from historically underrepresented communities. With tangible tools like lesson plans and reflection sheets, available to download as eResources from the book's website, each interactive chapter is applicable to classrooms and age groups across the globe. Educators from all levels of experience will benefit from step-by-step guides and lesson plans, all organized around guiding questions. These lessons coach students and educators from start to finish through a student-centered oral history. Background research, historical context, cultivating a culture of consent, analysis, promotion, and gratitude are among the many lessons taught beyond writing questions and interviewing. With a specific focus on the ethics influencing a teacher’s role as guide and grader of a student-centered oral history, this book also highlights successful approaches across the world of students and teachers discovering oral history. These examples reveal how student-centered oral history empowers academic achievement, radicalizes knowledge, develops relationships, and promotes community engagement. This book is a useful tool for any students and scholars interested in oral history in an educational setting.

South Vietnamese Soldiers
South Vietnamese Soldiers

Author: Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2016-03-21

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1440832420

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Published on the 40th anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam, this book brings to life the experiences and memories of South Vietnamese soldiers-the forgotten combatants of this controversial conflict. South Vietnam lost more than a quarter of a million soldiers in the Vietnam War, yet the histories of these men-and women-are largely absent from the vast historiography of the conflict. By focusing on oral histories related by 40 veterans from the former Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces, this book breaks new ground, shedding light on an essentially unexplored aspect of the war and giving voice to those who have been voiceless. The experiences of these former soldiers are examined through detailed firsthand accounts that feature two generations and all branches of the service, including the Women's Armed Forces Corps. Readers will gain insight into the soldiers' early lives, their military service, combat experiences, and friendships forged in wartime. They will also see how life became worse for most in the aftermath of the war as they experienced internment in communist prison camps, discrimination against their families on political grounds, and the dangers inherent in escaping Vietnam, whether by sea or land. Finally, readers will learn how veterans who saw no choice but to leave their homeland succeeded in rebuilding their lives in new countries and cultures.