The Oral History Review, Volume 47, Issue 2 (2020)

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Editorial

Editorial
Editors’ Introduction
David Caruso, Abigail Perkiss & Janneken Smucker
Pages: 189-192
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Oral History and COVID-19

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Behind the ‘Curve’: COVID-19, Infodemic, and Oral History
Stephen M. Sloan
Pages: 193-202
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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“First, Do No Harm”: Tread Carefully Where Oral History, Trauma, and Current Crises Intersect
Jennifer A. Cramer
Pages: 203-213
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Cultivating Supports while Venturing into Interviewing during COVID-19
Anna F. Kaplan
Pages: 214-226
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Socially Engaged Oral History Pedagogy amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ana Paulina Lee & Kimberly Springer
Pages: 227-239
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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The COVID-19 Oral History Project: Some Preliminary Notes from the Field
Jason M. Kelly
Pages: 240-252
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Journalism, COVID-19, and the Opportunity of Oral History
Evan Faulkenbury
Pages: 253-259
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Leading in the Time of Corona
Allison K. Tracy-Taylor
Pages: 260-268
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Research Article

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Oral Histories of Field Science in the Late Portuguese Colonial Empire
Cláudia Castelo
Pages: 269-290
Published online: 29 Jul 2020
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The Reclamation of an Arabian Tradition: Using Oral History to Teach Humanities and Social Sciences in Saudi Arabia
Laura Strachan & Carmen Winkel
Pages: 291-307
Published online: 03 Aug 2020
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Media Review

Review Article
Queer Newark Oral History Project
Tamar W. Carroll
Pages: 308-309
Published online: 30 Jul 2020
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“Under One Roof.” Tenement Museum. New York, N.Y. http://www.tenement.org/ Permanent exhibition
Samantha Lombard
Pages: 310-312
Published online: 16 Jul 2020
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UNPACKED: Refugee Baggage
Katie Nash
Pages: 313-314
Published online: 23 Jul 2020
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Community and Commerce: Oral Histories of African American Businesses in Los Angeles County
John E. Smith III
Pages: 315-316
Published online: 30 Jul 2020
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Oblatos, El vuelo que surcó la noche. (Oblatos: Epic Flight into the Night). Acelo Ruiz Villanueva.
Brad H. Wright
Pages: 317-319
Published online: 04 Jun 2020
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Book Review

Book Review
Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes
Edited by Nile Green. London: Hurst Publishers, 2015. xvii + 337 pp., £40 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-8490-45087. US edition, Oxford University Press, 288 pp., $65 Hardcover, ISBN 978-0-1902-47782
Mitchell Allen
Pages: 320-321
Published online: 12 Jun 2020
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Book Review
Sisterhood and After: An Oral History of the UK Women’s Liberation Movement, 1968 – Present.
By Margaretta Jolly. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 344 pp. ISBN 978-0-1906-58847, Hardcover, $34.95
Joanna Bornat
Pages: 322-324
Published online: 10 Jul 2020
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Book Review
Hardship to Homeland: Pacific Northwest’s Volga Germans
By Richard D. Scheuerman and Clifford E. Trafzer. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2018, 231 pp. ISBN 978-0-87422-362-0, Softcover, $24.95
Joyce E. Bromley
Pages: 325-326
Published online: 04 Jun 2020
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Book Review
Voices From Bears Ears: Seeking Common Ground on Sacred Land
By Rebecca M. Robinson and Steven E. Strom. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2018. 412 pp. 978-0-8165-3805-8, Softcover, $24.95
Elizabeth Akiya Chestnut
Pages: 327-329
Published online: 30 Jun 2020
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Book Review
Say It Forward: A Guide to Social Justice Storytelling
Edited by David Mayotte and Claire Kiefer. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2018. 290 pp. ISBN 978-1-6084-65408, Hardbound, $33.60; ISBN 978-1-6084-69581, Paperback, $19.95
Leonard Cox
Pages: 330-331
Published online: 04 Jun 2020
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Book Review
The Ethnography of Rhythm: Orality and Its Technologies
By Haun Saussy. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016. 274 pp. ISBN 978-0-8232-70477, hardcover, $100.00; ISBN 978-0-8232-70460, softcover, $32.00; ISBN 0823370475, Kindle, $31.99.
Jeff Friedman
Pages: 332-334
Published online: 12 Jun 2020
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Book Review
The Kindertransport: Contesting Memory
By Jennifer Craig-Norton. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 353 pp. ISBN 978-0-253-04220-0, Hardcover, $90.00; ISBN 978-0-253-04221-7, Paperback, $40.00; ISBN 978-0-253-04224-8, e-Book, $39.99
Emma Frothingham
Pages: 335-336
Published online: 30 Jun 2020
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Book Review
Practicing Oral History to Improve Public Policies and Programs
By Marella Hoffman. New York: Routledge, 2017. 160 pp. ISBN 978-1629584867, paperback, $36.95.
Rebecca Brenner Graham
Pages: 337-338
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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Book Review
Reframing Holocaust Testimony
By Noah Shenker. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. 248 pp. ISBN 978-0-253-01713-0, Softcover, $30.00
Barbara Krasner
Pages: 339-340
Published online: 12 Jun 2020
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Book Review
Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937–1946
By James P. Leary. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. 430 pp. ISBN 9780-0-2993-01545, first paperback edition, $24.95
Bud Kliment
Pages: 341-343
Published online: 30 Jun 2020
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Book Review
Living Ethnomusicology: Paths and Practices
By Margaret Sarkissian and Ted Solis. Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2019. 480 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-08413-3, paperback, $32.00
Bud Kliment
Pages: 344-346
Published online: 12 Jun 2020
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Book Review
Mingus Speaks
Charles Mingus, Edited by John F. Goodman. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2013. 350 pp. 918-0-520-27523-2, Hardcover, $29.95
Forrest Larson
Pages: 347-348
Published online: 04 Jun 2020
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Book Review
Voices from the Soviet Edge: Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow
Edited by Jeff Sahadeo. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019, 273 pp. ISBN 978-1-5017-38203, Hardcover, $42.95; ISBN 978-1-5017-38227, e-Book, $20.99
Selma Leydesdorff
Pages: 349-350
Published online: 04 Jun 2020
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Book Review
Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight: Indian Views
Edited by John H. Monnett. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. 128 pp. ISBN 978-0-8061-5582-1, Hardcover, $29.95
Brian McNerney
Pages: 351-353
Published online: 14 Jun 2020
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Book Review
Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture
By Grace Elizabeth Hale. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 384 pp. 978-1-4696-5487-4, Hardcover, $27.00
Todd Moye
Pages: 354-356
Published online: 12 Jun 2020
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Book Review
The Edge of Memory: Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World
By Patrick Nunn. New York/Sydney: Bloomsbury Sigma, 2019, 288 pp., 978-1-4729-4328-6, Hardcover, $28.00; 978-1-4729-43293, Softcover, $18.00
Kimberly A. Redding
Pages: 357-359
Published online: 04 Jun 2020
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Book Review
Barbed Voices: Oral History, Resistance, and the World War II Japanese American Social Disaster
By Arthur A. Hansen. Foreword by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi. Louisville, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2018. 326 pp. 978-1-60732-811-7, Hardcover, $38.00
Troy Reeves
Pages: 360-362
Published online: 16 Jun 2020
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Book Review
Giving a Voice to the Oppressed: The International Oral History Association, Between Political Movements and Academic Networks
Edited by Agnès Arp, Annette Leo, and Franka Maubach. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. 356 pp. ISBN 978-3-11-055870-8, Hardcover, $86.99
Donald A. Ritchie
Pages: 363-364
Published online: 16 Jun 2020
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Book Review
Everybody’s Problem: The War on Poverty in Eastern North Carolina
By Karen M. Hawkins. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017. 376 pp., ISBN 978-0-8130-54971, hardcover, $84.95
Thomas Saylor
Pages: 365-366
Published online: 04 Jun 2020
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Book Review
HIV Survivors in Sydney: Memories of the Epidemic
By Cheryl Ware. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 247 pp. ISBN 978-3-030-05101-3, Hardcover, $84.99; ISBN 978-3-030-05102-0, eBook, $80.74
George J. Severs
Pages: 367-368
Published online: 04 Jun 2020
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Book Review
Women of the Midan: The Untold Stories of Egypt’s Revolutionaries
By Sherine Hafez. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 216 pp. ISBN 978-0-253-04060-2, Hardcover, $85.00; ISBN 978-0-253-04061-9, Softcover, $32.00; ISBN 978-0-253-04064-0, eBook, $31.99
Valerie Brett Shaindlin
Pages: 369-370
Published online: 16 Jun 2020
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Book Review
Voices from Mariel: Oral Histories of the 1980 Cuban Boatlift
by José Manuel García, Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 2018, 178 pp., $24.95 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-8130-5666-1The Mariel Boatlift: A Cuban-American Journey, by Victor Andres Triay, Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 2019, 235 pp., $24.95 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-68340-092-9
Craig S. Simpson
Pages: 371-374
Published online: 16 Jun 2020
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Book Review
Family Portraits in Global Perspectives: An Oral History Collection
By Soledad Quartucci. San Bernardino: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018. 506 pp. ISBN: 978-1-7231-88367, Softcover, $27.99
Michael J. Tomaselli
Pages: 375-376
Published online: 16 Jun 2020
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Book Review
What Is Global History?
By Sebastian Conrad. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. 312 pp. 978-0-6911-78196, Softcover, $22.95; 978-0-6911-55258, Hardcover, $29.95; 978-1-4008-80966, e-Book, $13.49
Michael J. Tomaselli
Pages: 377-378
Published online: 16 Jun 2020
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Book Review
Downwind: A People’s History of the Nuclear West
By Sarah Alisabeth Fox. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. 304 pp. ISBN 978-1-4962-07661, Softcover, $19.95; ISBN 978-0-8032-55371, Hardcover, $29.95; ISBN 978-0-8032-69507, e-Book, $19.95
Holly Werner-Thomas
Pages: 379-380
Published online: 12 Jun 2020
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