"Finding Rosie: Documenting the World War II Home Front Experience of the American West through Oral History" by Samuel Redman

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Finding Rosie: Documenting the World War II Home Front Experience of the American West through Oral History

Western Historical Quarterly (2012)

Samuel Redman, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

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Abstract

This article describes an ongoing oral history project with the Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) of The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. It explains how the team frames its research, understands the audience for oral histories, details how individuals are selected for interviews, and outlines the project’s various new initiatives.

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Oral history,
World War II

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Summer 2012

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Samuel Redman. "Finding Rosie: Documenting the World War II Home Front Experience of the American West through Oral History" Western Historical Quarterly Vol. 43 (2012)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/samuel_redman/1/