Practicing oral history with military and war veterans

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Practicing oral history with military and war veterans

Sharon D. Raynor

(Practicing oral history series)

Routledge, 2023

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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-152) and index

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Description

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.

Table of Contents

Preface Section I: Introduction Chapter 1: My Story Chapter 2: Overview and Evolution of Military and Veterans Oral History Chapter 3: Personal Connections to Veterans Oral History Section II: Issues Common in Veterans Oral History Chapter 4: Best Practices and Ethical Guidelines Chapter 5: Race, Ethnicity, Class, Dis/Ability and Gender in the Military [among Veterans] Chapter 6: Trust, Trauma and the Human Factor Chapter 7: The Nature of Memory and Silence Section III: Conducting a Veterans Oral History Project Chapter 8: Project Design and Preparation Chapter 9: Recording Techniques Chapter 10: Interviewing Techniques Chapter 11: Interviewing War Veterans Section IV: After the Interview Chapter 12: Transcribing and Archiving Chapter 13: Using Veterans Oral History Chapter 14: The Value of Veterans Oral History Chapter 15: Reflections Appendix Appendix A: Sample Interview Questionnaire Appendix B: Veteran's Biographical Information Form Appendix C: Interview's Release Agreement Form Appendix D: Veteran's Release Agreement Form Appendix E: Photograph & Memorabilia Log Appendix F: Interview Summary Form Appendix G: Project Design Form Appendix H: Veterans Organizations Appendix I: Oral History Organizations Selected Bibliography Index

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