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oral history
noun
- information of historical or sociological importance obtained usually by tape-recorded interviews with persons whose experiences and memories are representative or whose lives have been of special significance.
- a book, article, recording, or transcription of such information.
oral history
noun
- the memories of living people about events or social conditions which they experienced in their earlier lives taped and preserved as historical evidence
Other Words From
- oral historian noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of oral history1
Example Sentences
The recordings were made on behalf of the US university, Boston College, as part of an academic project to create an "oral history" of the Troubles.
The man is working to compile an oral history of the Troubles for Boston College's Belfast Project.
A dozen years later, when the series had achieved legendary status and its stars had become universally well known, Apatow, who was editing a comedy-themed issue of Vanity Fair, asked me to put together an oral history of the show, for which I spoke with every major cast member, some minor ones, writers, directors and executives and, once again, Apatow and Feig.
“Some places just attract us more powerfully than others,” Walt Anderson, the manager, explained in a 2006 oral history.
Longtime activist Julian Bond recalled in “Voices of Freedom,” an oral history of the movement, that Lawson sounded “like the bad younger brother pushing King to do more, to be more militant” and had “a much more ambitious idea of what nonviolence could do.”
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