Introduction

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Introduction | Oral History | The Journal of American History, 86.2 | The History Cooperative

Oral History

Michael Gordon and Lu Ann Jones

Before we introduce this season's essays, we want to solicit your help on a special feature we are planning for next fall about using oral history in college classrooms. Have you assigned oral history projects in your courses? If so, we invite you to discuss your experiences for Journal of American History readers. How did oral history complement your teaching and learning goals? What topics did you ask students to explore? How did you incorporate this research method as you taught course content? What were the advantages and pitfalls of the assignments? How did you describe the assignments in course syllabi? (We would appreciate having copies of your syllabi.) Please contact either of us at the addresses below to discuss contributions to this feature. 1

The essays on oral history in this issue explore more scholarly uses of interviews. They reveal that while oral history has reshaped some fields of American history, its potential to transform others is just being realized. They also suggest how oral history invites new directions in the fields of education and religious history. All three remind us that life history interviews are the heart of oral historians' work and that oral narratives offer rich interpretive possibilities. . . .

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