Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Reflections
1. Stories of Community and Work in the Redd Center Oral History Program - Jessie L. Embry
2. A Two-Way Street: Explaining and Creating Community through Oral History - Barbara Allen Bogart
3. Probing Memory and Experience: The Untapped Potential of Oral History (Re)Collections - Laurie Mercier
Part II: Examples of Neglected Groups
4. “Everybody Worked Back Then”: Oral History, Memory, and Indian Economies in Northern California - William Bauer
5. Bittersweet Memories: Oral History, Mexican Americans, and the Power of Place - José M. Alamillo
6. “That’s All We Knew”: An Oral History of Family Labor in the American Southwest - Skott Brandon Vigil
7. “Colorado Has Been Real Good to Us”: An Oral History Project with Japanese Americans in Weld County, Colorado - Georgia Wier
8. Using Oral History to Record the Story of the Las Vegas African American Community - Claytee White
9. Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940–1980 - Joanne L. Goodwin
10. “Every Woman Has a Story”: Donna Joy McGladrey’s Alaskan Adventure - Sandra K. Mathews
11. Searching for the Rest of the Story: Documenting the Dee School of Nursing - John Sillito, Sarah Langsdon, and Marci Farr
12. The Utah Eagle Forum: Legitimizing Political Activism as Women’s Work - Melanie Newport
Part III: Essential Sources
13. Creating Community: Telling the Story of the Mormons in Fort Collins, Colorado - Linda M. Meyer
14. Every Mine, Every Cow Camp, Every Ranch: Oral History as Fieldwork - Leisl Carr Childers
15. Oral History among the Orchards: A Look at the James George Stratton Family - Kristi Young
Afterword: When History Talks Back - Clyde A. Milner II
Contributors
Index