Essays on Oral History

Oral history interview entails collecting information from individual about their past. It encompasses recording their feelings as well as thoughts about their future. The information tends to dig deep an individual's past life and experiences (Neuenschwander, 2014). Oral history interview is the best methodology for collecting information about the past either on social or cultural life. The information could be obtained from a family member, close friend, a relative or person in the community as one tries to understand their past event experiences (Dogan, 2015). Also, in communication, it seeks to understand how information is conveyed from one person ...

Communication

Introduction Oral history interview encompasses records of an individual’s experiences and recollection of thoughts and feelings about a specific period of time. Traditionally, an oral interview provides how individuals were affected by certain events in history in which the personal perspective adds a personal dimension in examining the past. Through oral interviews that discovery of primary resources can be obtained and most of the time, family members or members of the community can be a surprising source of information about certain events in history. Social research employs oral history as valid methodology for collecting data particularly in biographical ...

The Hollywood ten was a set of ten individuals who were pointed the finger at of being communist during the epoch of McCarthy Joseph. The House Un-American Activities Committee was undertaking investigations on various individuals on suspicions of spreading communism ideologies. A good number of people recorded statements but the ten screenwriters refused to cooperate on this issue and they were sentenced to jail for a period of twelve months for condescension of the Congress1. Besides, they were also banned from running any activities in the film industry in Hollywood. However, the ban was done away with in the mid 1960s. ...