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What is the Importance of Oral History?
Oral history is a method of collecting and preserving historical information through recorded interviews with people who have personal knowledge of past events. Oral history can provide valuable insights into different aspects of history that may not be documented in written sources, such as personal experiences, perspectives, emotions, and opinions. Some of the areas of…
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What are Some Great Oral History Podcasts to Listen to?
Welcome back. In my previous blog, we looked at some great oral history reads. Well, if you aren’t so much of a reader and are interested to learn more about oral history and would love more to listen to orally narrated and analyzed historical data that was collected, documented preserved by oral historians then this…
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What Are the Benefits of Oral History?
Hello and welcome back to my blog! Today I want to talk to you about a fascinating topic: oral history. What is oral history and why is it important? In my previous blog of what is oral history, we defined Oral history as a technique for generating and preserving original, historically interesting information from personal…
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How to Cite Oral History Sources
Oral history interviews are valuable sources of information that capture the voices and perspectives of people who have witnessed or participated in historical events. However, citing oral history interviews can be tricky, as there are different formats and styles to consider. Here are some general guidelines on how to cite oral history interviews, based on…
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How Timestamps Improve the Overall Quality Your Oral History Transcripts
There are a couple of factors that go into improving oral history transcript quality. Besides language, typing skills, speed, use of online research tools, time stamping as a digital transcription tool, adds value to transcripts. Wikipedia defines timestamps as a sequence of characters denoting the date/time which a certain event occurred. Timestamps is the time…
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Do Oral Historians Need an IRB Approval?
In 1974, the National Research Act, set the Institutional Review Board, also known as the IRB, with the purpose of reviewing biomedical and behavioral research involving human subjects. It basically was put in place to protect human subjects. It gave the IRB the authority to approve, disapprove or require modification of projects involving human subjects.…
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What Are Some Great Oral History Reads?
Oral history is a fascinating genre that captures the voices and experiences of people who lived through historical events or everyday life. Oral history books can offer insights, perspectives, and emotions that are often missing from traditional sources. If you are interested in oral history and want to learn more about the oral history field,…
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How to Transcribe an Oral History Interview
If you haven’t already checked out my previous blog on what is oral history, kindly have a look at it. Just to recap, in the blog, we defined it as the collection of historical data from individuals who either lived through a moment in time or have crucial information regarding the moment. It is therefore…
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Transcription For Beginners
Having been a transcriber for over 6 years (yeah, that long). I get a lot of questions, from family, friends, friends of friends, about what I do followed by requests to teach what I do. Sadly, sometimes I don’t have the time to completely break down what it is I do – Too busy transcribing…
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Zoom H1n Review For your Oral History Interviews
There are a number of recorders that can be used to record your oral history interviews and choosing the best voice recorders will depend on a lot of factors. Zoom H1 has been the choice of many oral historians due to its small size and simplicity, but the evolution continued. Zoom has since then introduced…
