Tato série se ponoří do fascinujícího světa ústní historie a zkoumá její metody, teorie a aplikace. Představuje interdisciplinární pohled na sběr, analýzu a interpretaci osobních vzpomínek a zkušeností. Čtenáři objeví, jak mohou tyto autentické hlasy osvětlit minulé události a nabídnout jedinečné perspektivy na společenské a kulturní dějiny. Je to nezbytné čtení pro historiky, sociology a kohokoli, kdo se zajímá o lidský příběh.
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.