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- \u201cOHA Principles and Best Practices<\/a>,\u201d Adopted October 2018, Oral History Association. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Ritchie, Donald A. Doing Oral History <\/em><\/a>3rd edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. The introduction and chapters 1, 2, 3, and 7 will be available online <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Selectionsall required will be made available on the online in advance of the institute. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- \u201cOral History Training Tools,\u201d<\/a> developed by Dr. Jason A. Higgins and Dr. Emily Hamilton. These are open-access training modules, which you may use in your own classes. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Week 1 Readings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Monday, June 19<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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- Institute will review and discuss key highlights from the Oral History Association\u2019s Principles and Best Practices,\u201d Adopted October 2018, Oral History Association. https:\/\/www.oralhistory.org\/principles-and-best-practices-revised-2018\/<\/a> <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Group discussions and activity on the readings: Ortiz, Paul, \u201cTearing Up the Master\u2019s Narrative: Stetson Kennedy and Oral History,\u201d The Oral History Review <\/em>(2014) 41:2, 279-289, DOI: 10.1093\/ohr\/ohu027\n
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- Activity: create a list of do\u2019s and don’ts based on the article to share with students in an accessible and updated way for Gen Z\/Alpha.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Guided discussion of Portelli, Alessandro. \u201cWhat Makes Oral History Different,\u201d The Oral History Reader, 3rd ed. <\/em>(New York: Routledge, 2015), 48-58.\n
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- Activity: We will also view and discuss oral history clips that illustrate the challenges with historical memory, collective memory, and Portelli\u2019s ideas about how oral history tells us more about meaning than events. This will be a great opportunity to talk about critically analyzing sources. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Introduction and Chapter 1 of Ritchie, Donald A. from Doing Oral History <\/em>3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Tuesday, June 20<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Guided discussions and group activities on Christian G. Appy, Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides <\/em>(New York: Penguin, 2004). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Vu Thi Vinh, “The Truong Son Jungle Gave Us Life” and Nguyen Thi Kim Chuy, “We came home hairless with ghostly white eyes” (103-106).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- “Sylvia Lutz Holland, “We saved their lives, but what life?” (170-75) and Nancy Smoyer oral history (“I can’t believe the Donut Dollies got us to do that.” (188-90).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- “My Lai” and the oral histories of Larry Colburn and Michael Bernhardt (343-53). <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- “From Cambodia to Kent State” and “Tom Grace” (377-89) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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- Ritchie, Donald. <\/em>Chapter 2, \u201c<\/em>Setting Up an Oral History Project.\u201d In Doing Oral History, (35-72).<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Schneider, William. Chapter 1, \u201cOral History in the Age of Digital Possibilities.\u201d In Oral History and Digital Humanities, 19-34.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Furter Reading Recommendations<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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- Steve Estes, Ask & Tell: Gay & Lesbian Veterans Speak Out <\/em>(Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2007).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Hagopian, Patrick. \u201cVoices from Vietnam: Veterans\u2019 Oral Histories in the Classroom,\u201d The Journal of American History <\/em>87, no. 2 (2000): 593\u2013601. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/2568766<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Heather M. Stur, The U.S. Military and Civil Rights Since World War II <\/em>(ABC-CLIO, September 2019).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Douglas Boyd, Chapter 4, \u201c\u2018I Just Want to Click on it and Listen\u2019: Oral History Archives, Orality, and Usability,\u201d in Boyd, Douglas, and Larson, Mary, eds. Oral History and the Digital Age. <\/em>New York: Palgrave, 2014<\/em>, 77-96.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Wednesday, June 21<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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- McHugh, S.A.. \u201cThe Aerobic Art of Interviewing,\u201d Asia Pacific Media Educator<\/em>, 18, 2007, 147-154. https:\/\/ro.uow.edu.au\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=apme<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Ritchie, Donald. Chapter 3, \u201cConducting Interviews\u201d Doing Oral History <\/em>(73-102).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Morrissey, Charles. \u201cThe Two-Sentence Format in Oral History Interviewing Technique,\u201d Oral History Review <\/em>15:1, 43-54. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/ohr\/15.1.43<\/a> <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Crane, Stephen. \u201c<\/em>A Mystery of Heroism<\/a>\u201d <\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Jarrell, Randall. \u201cThe Death of the Ball Turret Gunner<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Tim O\u2019Brien, The Things They Carried <\/em>(Be sure to have at least read the chapter entitled \u201cSpeaking of Courage\u201d prior to this session; however the whole text will be open for discussion and could be a resource application in your classrooms)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Caputo, <\/em>Philip. A Rumor of War <\/em>(Read the Preface)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Further Reading Recommentations<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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- Neuenschwander, John A. \u201cThe Legal Ramifications of Oral History,\u201d in The Oxford Handbook of Oral History. <\/em>Edited by Donald Ritchie. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Strong, Liz H. (2021) \u201cShifting Focus: Interviewers Share Advice on Protecting Themselves from Harm,\u201d The Oral History Review<\/em>, 48:2, 196-215, DOI:10.1080\/00940798.2021.1947144<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Yow, Valerie. \u201cInterviewing Techniques and Strategies,\u201d In the Oral History Reader<\/em>, 3rd Edition, edited by Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson, (153-178).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Crane, Stephen. \u201c<\/em>A Mystery of Heroism<\/a>\u201d <\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Jarrell, Randall. \u201cThe Death of the Ball Turret Gunner<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Tim O\u2019Brien, The Things They Carried <\/em>(Be sure to have at least read the chapter entitled \u201cSpeaking of Courage\u201d prior to this session; however the whole text will be open for discussion and could be a resource application in your classrooms)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Caputo, <\/em>Philip. A Rumor of War <\/em>(Read the Preface)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- \u201cThe Sniper\u201d by Liam O\u2019Flaherty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Thursday, June 22<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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- Dickey, James. \u201cHunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Komunyakaa, Yusef . \u201cFacing It\u201d<\/a> <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Rancourt, Suzanne S. \u201cWhy I Don\u2019t Meditate<\/a>\u201d <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Turner, Brian. Here, Bullet<\/a> (Activities: Participants will identify selections that they think will work well in their classrooms. We will also discuss in groups the following selections: \u201cIn the Leupold Scope\u201d and \u201cHere, Bullet.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Owen, Wilfred. \u201cDisabled,<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Chapter 2, from Ron Kovic, Born on the Fourth of July. <\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- John M. Kinder, \u201cIntroduction\u201d Paying With Their Bodies: American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran <\/em>(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Recommended: John M. Kinder, Chapter 8: \u201cThe Shiny Plating of Prestige: Disabled Veterans in the American Century,\u201d from Paying With Their Bodies: American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran<\/em> (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>
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- Rodney-Haapala, Karin. \u201cIncidents-Place, Journal Entry\u201d and \u201cPlace, Photograph\u201d in National Veterans Art Museum<\/a>. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Khadijah Queen, \u201c35 x 36<\/a>\u201d <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Eastman, Marjorie K. Chart your own path. The Frontline Generation: How we served Post 9\/11<\/em> (pp. 19-24). New York: Longbow Six, 2016. https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/frontlinegenerat0000east<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- \u201cPBS Newshour: Black Veterans Sue VA over Decades of Discrimination<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Alistair Thomson, \u201cAnzac Memories<\/em> Revisited: Trauma, Memory and Oral History,\u201d The Oral History Review<\/em>, (2015) 42:1, 1-29, DOI: 10.1093\/ohr\/ohv010<\/a>\\<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Oral History Association, \u201cCore Principles of the OHA,\u201d https:\/\/www.oralhistory.org\/oha-core-principles\/<\/a>, and \u201cOHA Statement on Ethics,\u201d https:\/\/www.oralhistory.org\/oha-statement-on-ethics\/<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Further Reading Recommendations<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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- Explore recent news stories on the Black Veterans Project: https:\/\/www.blackveteransproject.org\/news<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Anderson, Laurie Halse. Impossible Knife of Memory (A good text for teachers who are interested in a YA Literature text to use in their classrooms that addresses trauma and veterans).<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Browning, Christopher R. \u201cRemembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave Labor Camp,\u201d from Oral History Reader<\/em>, Third Edition, (311-19).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Caruth, Cathy, ed. \u201cInterview with Robert J. Lifton,\u201d in Listening to Trauma: Conversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic Experience. <\/em>Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2014.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Cramer, Jennifer A. \u201cFirst, Do No Harm\u201d: Tread Carefully Where Oral History, Trauma, and Current Crises Intersect, The Oral History Review<\/em>, 47 no. 2 (2020): 203-213, DOI:10.1080\/00940798.2020.1793679<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Shay, Jonathan. Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming, <\/em>New York: Scribner, 2002.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Week 2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Monday, June 26<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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- Vuic, Kara Dixon. \u201cOur First Sister: Lynda Van Devanter and the Vietnam Veterans of America\u2019s Women\u2019s Project,\u201d in Service Denied: Marginalized Veterans in Modern American History. <\/em>Edited by John M. Kinder and Jason A. Higgins <\/em>(Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2022). <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Vuic, Kara Dixon. \u201cNot All Women Wore Love Beads in the Sixties,\u201d from Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War <\/em>(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010). <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Explore selected interviews from the Military Women\u2019s Memorial Oral History Collections: https:\/\/womensmemorial.starter1ua.preservica.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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- Bogan, Louise. \u201cTo My Brother Killed: Haumont Wood: October, 1918.\u201d Listen at Bogan, Louise. \u201cTo My Brother Killed: Haumont Wood: October, 1918.\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Du Bois, W.E.B. \u201cReturning Soldiers,<\/a>\u201d The Crisis <\/em>(1919)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- \u201cThe Colored Soldiers,\u201d Paul Lawrence Dunbar<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Jones, Brock. \u201cMemorial from a Park Bench\u201d from Cenotaph, <\/em>Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2016.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Sandburg, Carl. \u201cGrass<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Further Reading Recommendations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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- Vuic, Kara Dixon. The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines. <\/em>Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Vuic, Kara Dixon, ed. The Routledge History of Gender, War, and the U.S. Military. <\/em>New York: Routledge, 2018.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Bierce, Ambrose. \u201cAn occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge\u201d <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Blight, David. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. <\/em>Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Douglass, Frederick. \u201cMen of Color, To Arms!<\/a>\u201d (1863)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Williams, Chad. Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era. <\/em>Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2010.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- MacLeish, Archibald. \u201cThe Silent Slain.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Owen, Wilfred. \u201cDulce et Decorum Est<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Tuesday, June 27<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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- \u201cParticipate in the Project,\u201d Library of Congress, Veterans History Project, accessed Feb. 2, 2022. https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/vets\/kitmenu.html<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Ritchie, Donald. Doing Oral History<\/em>, Chapter 6: \u201cPreserving Oral History in Archives and Libraries\u201d (161-191).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Further Reading Recommendations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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- Sommer, Barbara W. Doing Veterans Oral History, A publication of the Oral History Association and the Library of Congress Veterans History Project<\/em>. OHA Pamphlet Series, 2015. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Wednesday, June 28<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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- \u201cAt the Vietnam War Memorial\u201d by Robert Dana <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- \u201cThe Invasion of Grenada<\/a>,\u201d poem by W.D. Ehrhart<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Introduction from Hagopian, Patrick. The Vietnam War in American Memory: Veterans, Memorials, and the Politics of Healing. <\/em>UMass Press, 2009. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- “Wa Ta Se Na Ka Mo Ni, Vietnam Memorial” by Ray A. Young Bear<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- My Letter to the Wall: November 1989,\u201d by Nguy\u1ec5n Ng\u1ecdc Xu\u00e2n<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Revist: \u201cFacing It<\/a>,\u201d by Yusef Komunyakaa<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Poems from WWII<\/strong>: John Ciardi, \u201cA Box Comes Home<\/a>\u201d; Richard Eberhart, \u201cThe Fury of Aerial Bombardment<\/a>\u201d; Langston Hughes, \u201cBeaumont to Detroit: 1943<\/a>\u201d; George Oppen, \u201cSurvival: Infantry<\/a>\u201d; Mary Jo Salter, \u201cWelcome to Hiroshim<\/a>a\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Terkel, Studs. The Good War: An Oral History of World War II<\/em><\/strong>. <\/em>(any edition) <\/em>New York: Pantheon, 1984. [\u201cJohn Garcia,\u201d pp. 17-22; \u201cE. B. Sledge,\u201d pp. 56-63; \u201cPeggy Terry,\u201d pp. 105-110; \u201cDempsey Travis,\u201d pp. 149-156; \u201cJoseph Small,\u201d pp. 392-401; \u201cWalter and Olga Nowak,\u201d pp. 423-431; \u201cMikhail Nikolaevich & Galina Alexeyez,\u201d pp. 459-456.]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Further Reading Recommendations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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- Puller, Lewis B. Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet. <\/em>New York: Grove Press, 1991.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- John Ketwig, And a Hard Rain Fell: A G.I.’s True Story of the War in Vietnam. <\/em>Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 1985; 2002; 2008.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Phillips, Kimberley. War! What Is It Good For?: Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from WWII to Iraq. <\/em>Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2012. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Rosales, Steven. Soldados Razos at War:<\/em> Chicano Politics, Identity, and Masculinity in the U.S. Military from World War II to Vietnam<\/em>. University of Arizona Press, 2017.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- \u201cWorld War II Poets: A Selection of Poets who Served in the Largest Conflict in Human History,\u201d The Poetry Foundation, accessed January 4, 2022: https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/collections\/101637\/world-war-ii-poets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Additional Teaching Resources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
- John Ketwig, And a Hard Rain Fell: A G.I.’s True Story of the War in Vietnam. <\/em>Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 1985; 2002; 2008.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Puller, Lewis B. Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet. <\/em>New York: Grove Press, 1991.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Introduction from Hagopian, Patrick. The Vietnam War in American Memory: Veterans, Memorials, and the Politics of Healing. <\/em>UMass Press, 2009. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Sommer, Barbara W. Doing Veterans Oral History, A publication of the Oral History Association and the Library of Congress Veterans History Project<\/em>. OHA Pamphlet Series, 2015. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Vuic, Kara Dixon, ed. The Routledge History of Gender, War, and the U.S. Military. <\/em>New York: Routledge, 2018.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Du Bois, W.E.B. \u201cReturning Soldiers,<\/a>\u201d The Crisis <\/em>(1919)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Vuic, Kara Dixon. \u201cNot All Women Wore Love Beads in the Sixties,\u201d from Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War <\/em>(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010). <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Anderson, Laurie Halse. Impossible Knife of Memory (A good text for teachers who are interested in a YA Literature text to use in their classrooms that addresses trauma and veterans).<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Khadijah Queen, \u201c35 x 36<\/a>\u201d <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Komunyakaa, Yusef . \u201cFacing It\u201d<\/a> <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Strong, Liz H. (2021) \u201cShifting Focus: Interviewers Share Advice on Protecting Themselves from Harm,\u201d The Oral History Review<\/em>, 48:2, 196-215, DOI:10.1080\/00940798.2021.1947144<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Ritchie, Donald. Chapter 3, \u201cConducting Interviews\u201d Doing Oral History <\/em>(73-102).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Hagopian, Patrick. \u201cVoices from Vietnam: Veterans\u2019 Oral Histories in the Classroom,\u201d The Journal of American History <\/em>87, no. 2 (2000): 593\u2013601. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/2568766<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Schneider, William. Chapter 1, \u201cOral History in the Age of Digital Possibilities.\u201d In Oral History and Digital Humanities, 19-34.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Ritchie, Donald. <\/em>Chapter 2, \u201c<\/em>Setting Up an Oral History Project.\u201d In Doing Oral History, (35-72).<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Group discussions and activity on the readings: Ortiz, Paul, \u201cTearing Up the Master\u2019s Narrative: Stetson Kennedy and Oral History,\u201d The Oral History Review <\/em>(2014) 41:2, 279-289, DOI: 10.1093\/ohr\/ohu027\n
- Institute will review and discuss key highlights from the Oral History Association\u2019s Principles and Best Practices,\u201d Adopted October 2018, Oral History Association. https:\/\/www.oralhistory.org\/principles-and-best-practices-revised-2018\/<\/a> <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Ritchie, Donald A. Doing Oral History <\/em><\/a>3rd edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. The introduction and chapters 1, 2, 3, and 7 will be available online <\/li>\n\n\n\n