Oral interview

Oral histories are one tool that historians use to understand the past. Go to the StoryCorps Animation websites and view a couple of the oral history animated videos. Then answer the following questions: Why is oral history important? What can be gained from oral history than is missing in other types of sources? Is this a valuable teaching tool? What are the problems that oral history might present? Which video(s) did you enjoy and why?

To receive full credit for this assignment your post must:

Address the questions asked in the paragraph above in at least a 300-word post and cite all outside sources appropriately
In your initial post, include at least one interesting question the readings raised for you
Reply to at least two of your classmates’ posts and attempt to answer their question (100 word posts minimum)

link to book https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/25-introduction

Link: StoryCorp Animations

https://storycorps.org/animation/

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The Value of Oral History

Oral histories are stories that living individuals tell about their past, or about the past of other people. Oral history is the telling and passing down of stories from one person to another. Oral history therefore teaches us what has changed in the past and what has stayed the same over time. Oral history also preserves for future generations a clear picture of who we are in the present and what we remember in the past.

What can be gained from oral history than is missing in other types of source is that eyewitnesses of the past are able to deliver authentic accounts of events in history. This first-hand information from the sources is the one available in oral history but absent in other sources. A good example is a grand parent Vietnam veteran narrating about the Vietnam war to a grandson.