The Oral History Review, Volume 8, Issue 1 (1980)

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Oral History and Public History
Enid H. Douglass
Pages: 1-5
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Oral History Evaluation Guidelines: The Wingspread Conference
Pages: 6-19
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Why Call It “Oral History”? Searching for Early Usage of a Generic Term
Charles T. Morrissey
Pages: 20-48
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Malawians and the Great War: Oral History in Reconstructing Africa’s Recent Past
Melvin Page
Pages: 49-61
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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The Folklorist, the Oral Historian, and Local History
Larry Danielson
Pages: 62-72
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Hard Times Blues (1929–40): Downhome Blues Recordings as Oral Documents
John Solomon Otto
Pages: 73-80
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Replies to Leonard Rapport’s “How Valid Are the Federal Writers’ Project Life Stories: An Iconoclast Among the True Believers”
Tom E. Terrill & Jerrold Hirsch
Pages: 81-92
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Louis Starr: A Remembrance

Louis Starr: A Remembrance
Forrest Pogue
Pages: 93-97
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Book Reviews

Book Review
The Oral History Collection of Columbia University.
Edited by Elizabeth B. Mason and Louis M. Stan. New York: Oral History Research Office, Columbia University, 1979. Pp. xxvii + 306. $22.50.
Suzanne Riess (Editor)
Pages: 98-100
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women’s Campaign Against Lynching.
By Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. Pp. xiv + 373. $14.95.
Virginia Hamilton
Pages: 100-101
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Joe Scott, The Woodsman-Songmaker.
By Edward D. Ives. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978. Pp. xxvii + 473. $22.50.
Richard M. Dorson
Pages: 101-102
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Counsel and Advise: A Political Biography of Samuel I. Rosenman.
By Samuel B. Hand. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1979. Pp. x + 362. $20.00
Alfred B. Rollins Jr
Pages: 102-103
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Untouchable: An Indian Life History.
By James M. Freeman. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1978. Pp. viii+421. $18.95.
Kendall Blanchard
Pages: 103-105
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Book Review
Great American Dreams: Portrait of the Way We Are.
By Robert G. Kaiser and Jon Lowell. New York: Harper and Row, 1979, Pp. 256. $12.50.
Thomas J. Noer
Pages: 105-106
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Book Review
Horse Power and Magic.
By George Ewart Evans. London: Faber and Faber, 1979. Illustrations. Pp. xiv + 222. $17.95.
Horace Beck
Pages: 106-107
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Book Review
The Young Nixon: An Oral Inquiry.
Ed. by Renee K. Schulte. Richard M. Nixon Project, Fuller ton Oral History Program. Van Nuys, CA: Delta Lithograph Co., 1978. Pp. xxvi + 279. No price given.
Bruce Mazlish
Pages: 107-109
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Book Review
Guts and Glory.
By Lawrence H. Suid. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Publishing Co., 1978. Pp. 357. Softbound, $6.95; Hardbound, $12.95.
Benis M. Frank
Pages: 109-110
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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What Went Wrong? Why Hasn't Having More Made People Happier?
By Jeremy Seabrook. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978. Pp. 286. $3.95.
Stephen R. Ward
Pages: 110-111
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Asante Before the British, The Prempean Years, 1875-1900.
By Thomas J. Lewin. Lawrence, KA: Regents Press of Kansas, 1978. $15.50.
John E. Saffell
Pages: 111-112
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Book Review
Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War.
By Ronald Fraser. New York: Pantheon Books, 1979. 628 pp. $15.95.
Jerry Greenfield
Pages: 112-114
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Book Review
Honkers and Shouters, The Golden Years of Rhythm and Blues.
By Arnold Shaw. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc., 1978. $9.95.
Shirley Moore
Pages: 114-115
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Program of the Fourteenth Annual Colloquium

Program of the Fourteenth Annual Colloquium
Pages: 116-118
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Oral History Association Council Reports

Brief Report
Oral History Association Council Reports
Pages: 119-126
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Publications in Print

Publications in Print
Pages: 127-128
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Contributors

Contributors
Page: 129
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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