Recommended Books
Here is a selected--but by no means exhaustive--list of books on memory studies and oral history.
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Baum, Willa K. 1991. Transcribing and Editing Oral History. Nashville, TN: American Association for State and Local History.
Benmayor,Rina and Andor Skotnes, eds. 1994. Migration and Identity: International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories, Volume III. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bennett, Tony. 1995. The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, and Politics. New York: Routledge.
Bertaux, Daniel and Paul Thompson, eds. 1993. Between Generations: Family Models, Myths and Memories: International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories, Volume II. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bodnar, John. 1996. Bonds of Affection: Americans Define their Patriotism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Bodnar, John. 1992. Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Climo, Jacob J. and Maria G. Cattell, eds. 2002. Social Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press.
Confino, Alon. "Collective Memory and Cultural History: Problems of Method," American Historical Review 102, No. 5 (Dec. 1997), 1386-1403.
Connerton, Paul. 1989. How Societies Remember. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Cullen, Jim. 1995. The Civil War in Popular Culture. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Dunaway, David K. and Willa K. Baum, eds. 1996. Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology. 2nd edition. Nashville, TN: American Association for State and Local History.
Foster, Gaines M. 1987. Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South. New York: Oxford University Press.
Glassberg, David. 2001. Sense of History: The Place of the Past in American Life. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press.
Gluck, Sherna, and Daphne Patai, eds. 1991. Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History. New York: Routledge.
Halbwachs, Maurice. 1992. On Collective Memory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Hayden, Dolores. 1995. The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Hickey, M. G. 2006. Bringing History Home: Local and Family History Projects for Grades K-6. Needham, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
Hogan, Michael J., ed. 1996. Hiroshima in History and Memory. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Hutton, Patrick H. 1993. History as an Art of Memory. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
Ives, Edward. 1980. The Tape-Recorded Interview: A Manual for Field Workers in Folklore and Oral History. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press.
Jeffrey, Jaclyn, and Glenace Edwall, eds. 1994. Memory and History: Essays on Remembering and Interpreting Human Experience. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
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Kammen, Carol and Norma Prendergast, eds. 2000. Encyclopedia of Local History. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press.
Kammen, Carol, ed. 1996. The Pursuit of Local History: Readings on Theory and Practice. Walnut Creek,: AltaMira Press (in association with the American Association for State and Local History).
Kammen, Michael. 1993. Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture. New York: Vintage Books.
Karamanski, Thomas J, ed. 1990.Ethics and Public History. Malabar: Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co.
Kavanagh, Gaynor. 1997. Making Histories in Museums. University of Leicester Press.
Klein, Norman M. 1997. The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory. New York: Verso Books.
Lanman, B. A. and L. M. Wendling, eds. 2006. Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians: An Anthology of Oral History Education. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press.
Langer, Lawrence. 1991. Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
LeGoff, Jacques. 1996. History and Memory. New York: Columbia University Press.
LeGoff, Jacques and Pierre Nora, eds. 1984. Constructing the Past: Essays in Historical Methodology. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Leydesdorff, Selma, Luisa Passerini and Paul Thompson, eds. 1996. Gender and Memory: International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories, Volume IV. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Linenthal, Edward. 2001. Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create the American Holocaust MuseumNew York: Columbia University Press.
Linenthal, Edward and Tom Englehardt, eds. 1996. History Wars: The Enola Gay and the Battle for the American Past. New York: Metropolitan Books.
Lipsitz, George. 1990. Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Lowenthal, David. 1996. Possessed by the Past. New York: Free Press.
Lowenthal, David. 1985. The Past is a Foreign Country. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Marling, Karal Ann and John Wetenhall. 1991. Iwo Jima: Monuments, Memories and the American Hero. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Mercier, Laurie and Madeline Buckendorf. 1992. Using Oral History in Community History Projects. Los Angeles, CA: Oral History Association, Pamphlet No. 4.
McMahan, Eva. 1989. Elite Oral History Discourse: A Study of Cooperation and Coherence. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press.
Mosse, George. 1990. Fallen Soldiers. New York: Oxford University Press.
Nora, Pierre. 1996. Realms of Memory: Rethinking the French Past, Vol. I: Conflicts and Divisions; Vol. II: Traditions (1996 translation of Les Lieux de Memoire). New York: Columbia University Press.
Norkunas, Martha. 2003. Monuments and Memory, History and Representation in Lowell, Massachusetts. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Norkunas, Martha. 1994. The Politics of Public Memory: Tourism, History and Ethnicity in Monterey, California. Albany: SUNY Press.
Oral History Association. 1992. Evaluation Guidelines. Los Angeles, CA: Oral History Association.
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Passerini, Luisa, ed. 1992. Memory and Totalitarianism: International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories, Volume I. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Passerini, Luisa. 1987. Fascism in Popular Memory: The Cultural Experience of the Turin Working Class. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Passerini, Luisa. 1996. Autobiography of a Generation: Italy, 1968. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press.
Perks, Robert and Alistair Thomson, eds. 1998. The Oral History Reader. Routledge.
Piehler, G. Kurt. 1995. Remembering War the American Way. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Portelli, Alessandro. 1997. The Battle of Valle Giulia: Oral History and the Art of Dialogue. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
Portelli, Alessandro. 1991. The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Powers, Willow Roberts. 2005. Transcription Techniques for the Spoken Word. AltaMira Press.
Ransel, David. 2000. Village Mothers: Three Generations of Change in Russia and Tataria. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Rogers, Kim Lacy, Selma Leydesdorff, and Graham Dawson, eds. 1999. Trauma and Life Stories: International Perspectives. Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative, Routledge Press.
Rousso, Henry. 1991. The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Ritchie, Donald A. 1995. Doing Oral History. New York: Twayne Publishers.
Rosenzweig, Roy and David Thelen. 2000. Presence of the Past. New York: Columbia University Press.
Samuel, Raphael. 1994. Theatres of Memory: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture. New York: Verso Books.
Schudson, Michael. 1992. Watergate in American Memory. New York: Basic Books.
Slotkin, Richard. 1998. Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth Century America. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
Steinlauf, Michael. 1997. Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
Sturken, Marita. 1997. Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, The Aids Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Terkel, Studs. 1995. Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century By Those Who've Lived It. New York: The New Press.
Thelen, David, ed. 1989. "Special Issue: Memory and American History," Journal of American History 75, no. 4.
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. 1995. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
Tumarkin, Nina. 1994. The Living and the Dead: The Rise and Fall of the Cult of World War II in Russia. New York: Basic Books.
Watson, Rubie. 1994. Memory, History, and Opposition Under State Socialism. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press.
White, Richard and Patricia Limerick. 1994. The Frontier in American Culture. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Winter, Jay. 1995. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Yow, Valerie Raleigh. 1994. Recording Oral History: A Practical Guide for Social Scientists. Walnut Grove, London, New Delhi: AltaMira Press (in association with the American Association for State and Local History).
