| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Melissa Walker. Southern Farmers and Their Stories: Memory and Meaning in Oral History. (New Directions in Southern History.) Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2006. Pp. xiv, 324. $45.00.

Oral history interviews have become essential sources in the writing of inclusive modern history. The most significant precedence was, arguably, the labor of Federal Writers Project (FWP) collectors of ordinary folks' "life histories" during the 1930s, especially in the American South. At least 1,400 southern life histories survive in various universities and archives, from Kentucky and North Carolina to Florida and Arkansas; and since the 1960s, especially, they have been mined for readable, stand-alone collections and for reinterpretations of rural life during the tumultuous decades between ca. 1910 and 1960 or so. By the 1970s, new oral history projects proliferated and the endeavor became a formal subdiscipline with protocols, a growing theoretical literature, and a specialized journal.

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