The Oral History Review, Volume 18, Issue 1 (1990)

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The Oral History Review, Volume 18, Issue 1 (1990)

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The Case of the Crippled Blockholer: Miners, Managers, and Talk about Early Twentieth-Century Industrial Accidents
Lillian Trettin
Pages: 1-28
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Get Real: Empowering the Student Through Oral History
John Forrest & Elisabeth Jackson
Pages: 29-44
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Oral History as Moral Discourse: Conscientious Objectors and the Second World War
Cynthia Eller
Pages: 45-76
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Oral History in Nigeria: Issues, Problems, and Prospects
Modupeolu M. Faseke
Pages: 77-92
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Book Review Symposium: Oral History and Biography.
Linda Shopes (Book Review Editor)
Pages: 93-94
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Southern Timberman: The Legacy of William Buchanan.
By Archer H. Mayor. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988. 263 pp. Hardbound, $30.00.
James E. Fogerty
Pages: 94-96
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Book Reviews
Donald A. Ritchie
Pages: 97-99
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Gerald L. K. Smith: Minister of Hate.
By Glenn Jeansonne. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. 283 pp. Hardbound, $25.00.
James T. Fisher
Pages: 99-101
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Howard L. Green
Pages: 101-105
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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My Century: The Odyssey of a Polish Intellectual.
By Aleksander Wat. With a forward by Czeslaw Milosz. Translated by Richard Lourie. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. 407 pp. Hardbound, $35.00.
Thaddeus Radzilowski
Pages: 106-110
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Book Reviews
Elisabeth Stevens
Pages: 111-116
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Media and Public History
Jo Blatti
Page: 117
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Changing Visions of the Past
Mark P. Leone & Paul R. Mullins
Pages: 118-120
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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An Oral Historian's Work, With Dr. Edward Ives
Charles T. Morrissey
Pages: 120-122
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Quilts in Women's Lives: Six Portraits
Anne R. Kaplan
Pages: 122-124
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Good Man in the Woods
Edward D. Ives
Pages: 124-126
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Brazilian Women Speak: Contemporary Life Stories.
By Daphne Patai. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988. 398 pp. Hardbound, $37.00; Softbound, $13.95.
Susan Tucker
Pages: 127-129
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Listening to History: The Authenticity of Oral Evidence.
By Trevor Llumis. Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble, 1988, 1975 pp. Hardbound, $22.50.
David Stricklin
Pages: 129-131
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Book Reviews
William W. Moss
Pages: 131-133
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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What's a Coal Miner to do? The Mechanization of Coal Mining.
By Keith Dix. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989. 258 pp. Hardbound, $29.95.
Dean Herrin
Pages: 134-136
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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I Remember Like Today: The Auto-Lite Strike of 1934.
By Philip A. Korth and Margaret Beegle. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1988. Hardbound, $20.00.
Roger Horowitz
Pages: 137-138
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966.
By Joshua B. Freeman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. 434 pp. Hardbound, $34.50.
Debra E. Bernhardt
Pages: 139-140
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Growing Up Working Class: Continuity and Change Among Viennese Youth, 1890-1930.
By J. Robert Wegs. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989. 206 pp. Hardbound, $24.00.
Jon Staujf
Pages: 141-142
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Sparrows Point: Making Steel-The Rise and Ruin of American Industrial Might.
By Mark Reutter. New York: Summit Books, 1988. 494 pp. Hardbound, $24.95; Softbound (1989), $14.95.
Sylvia Gillett
Pages: 143-145
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Book Reviews
Brett Williams
Pages: 145-148
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Jacqueline K. Parker
Pages: 148-151
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Off The Record: An Oral History of Popular Music.
By Joe Smith. Edited by Mitchell Fink. New York: Warner Books, 1988. 448 pp. Hardbound, $22.95; Softbound (1989), [price not available].
Philip Furia
Pages: 151-153
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Hoover Dam: An American Adventure.
By Joseph E. Stevens. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. 326 pp. Hardbound, $24.95.
Robert C. Pavlik
Pages: 154-156
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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The Art of American Car Design: The Profession and Personalities.
By C. Edson Armi. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988. 312 pp. Hardbound, $34.50.
James J. Kopp
Pages: 156-157
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Marxism in the USA: Remapping the History of the American Left.
By Paul Buhle. London: Verso Books, 1987. 299 pp. Hardbound, $29.95; Softbound, $11.95.
John Laslett
Pages: 158-159
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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The New Deal at the Grass Roots: Programs for the People in Otter Tail County, Minnesota.
By D. Jerome Tweton. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1988. 205 pp. Hardbound, $19.95; Softbound, $10.95.
Jo Ann E. Argersinger
Pages: 160-161
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Book Reviews
John Robert Greene
Pages: 162-165
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Days of Decision: An Oral History of Conscientious Objectors in the Military During the Vietnam War.
By Gerald R. Gioglio Trenton, N.J.: The Broken Rifle Press, 1989. 348 pp. Softbound, $14.95. (Copies can be ordered from Broken Rifle Press, PO Box 749, Trenton, NJ 08607.).
Jerry Lembcke
Pages: 165-168
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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El Salvador at War: An Oral History of Conflict From the 1979 Insurrection to the Present.
Edited by Max G. Manwaring and Court Prisk. Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press, 1988. 500 pp. Softbound, $9.00.
Richard V. Salisbury
Pages: 168-170
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Book Reviews
Douglas A. Foster
Pages: 170-172
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Coming of Age in New Jersey: College and American Culture.
By Michael Moffatt. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1989. 355 pp. Hardbound, $35.00; Softbound, $12.95.
Lois Sarvetnick
Pages: 173-175
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Atanasoff: Forgotten Father of the Computer.
By Clark R. Mollenhoff. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1988. 274 pp. Hardbound: $24.95.
Patricia Rife
Pages: 175-176
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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A Killing Wind: Inside the Bhopal Catastrophe.
By Dan Kurzman. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987. 297 pp. Hardbound, $19.95.
Patricia Rife & Kendal Beardsley
Pages: 177-178
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Work, Ethnicity, and Oral History.
Edited by Dorothy E. Moore and James H. Morrison. Halifax, Nova Scotia: International Education Centre, St. Mary's University, 1988. 242 pp. Softbound, $13.95.
Michael J. Chiarappa
Pages: 178-181
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Seki-Nin (Duty Bound).
By George Nakagawa. With an appended interview with the author by Arthur A. Hansen. Fullerton: Oral History Program, California State University, 1989. 327 pp. Hardbound, $19.95.
Winifred S. Wasden
Pages: 181-182
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Researcher's Guide to Archives and Regional History Sources.
John C. Larsen, editor. Foreword by John Y. Cole. Hamden, Conn.: Library Professional Publications/The Shoe String Press, 1988. 167 pp. Hardbound, $27.50.
John Richardson Jr.
Pages: 183-184
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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