2.53. Interviews You Conducted, and Interviews You Didn’t

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: For today’s challenge, you can one of two things. Using Shopes’ summary guide, you can evaluate an interview you’ve conducted that you haven’t processed yet, or you can analyze an interview that you did not conduct, but might be able to apply to your research. And bonus challenge, in your notebook, brainstorm a question or two you might ask future narrators that perhaps may get to a topic that you may not use, but a future researcher could benefit from knowing. 

Resources 

• LAS VEGAS SHOWGIRLS ORAL HISTORIES, UNLV Libraries (2012). https://www.library.unlv.edu/whats_new_in_special_collections/2012/12/las-vegas-showgirls-oral-histories.html 
• Shopes, Linda. “Making Sense of Oral History,” in Oral History in the Digital Age, edited by Doug Boyd, Steve Cohen, Brad Rakerd, and Dean Rehberger. Washington, D.C.: Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2012, http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/08/making-sense-of-oral-history/ 

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More and More Every Day is brought to you by the South Phoenix Oral History Project at South Mountain Community College, in partnership with the Southwest Oral History Association. 

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