Townsend Center Oral History Working Group

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The Regional Oral History Office of the Bancroft Library has assembled a working group for faculty, graduate students, and staff on campus who are conducting oral histories or using oral histories in their research or teaching. Those interested in related genres, from the in-depth qualitative research interview to personal narratives and memoir, are also invited to discuss issues related to the methods and uses of oral history; the evaluation of personal testimony as historical evidence; preservation and accessibility of archival oral histories on campus; the nuts and bolts of interviewing techniques, equipment, legal releases; theoretical issues as related to the practice of oral history.

Oral History for Publication:
The Life Story of Francis Freeborn Pauley,
A Southern White Civil Rights Activist

The speaker for the final session of the year will be Kathy Nasstrom, who is completing an oral history-based book manuscript on the life of Frances Freeborn Pauley, a 93-year-old white, southern, female activist for civil rights and economic justice. Kathy, professor of U.S. history, women's history, and oral history at the University of San Francisco, will discuss the recording of Pauley's life story and editing it for publication, as well as writing her own commentary about Pauley's storytelling and her activism.

Are folks interested in practical matters of equipment, good recording technique, transcribing; or in learning more about other oral history projects in process? Give us your input. Better yet, come forth to put on the show

The Oral History Working Group
receives generous support from
The Doreen B. Townsend
Center for the Humanities.