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Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
Studs Terkel
W. W. Norton & Company
W. W. Norton & Company
First published in 1970, this classic of oral history features the voices of men and women who lived through the Great Depression of the 1930s. It includes accounts by congressmen C. Wright Patman and Hamilton Fish, as well as failed presidential...
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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's (Perennial Classics)
Frederick L. Allen
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Only Yesterday deals with that delightful decade from the Armistice in November 1918 to the panic and depression of 1929-30. Here is the story of Woodrow Wilson's defeat, the Harding scandals, the Coolidge prosperity, the revolution in manners...
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The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves
Andrew Ward
Houghton Mifflin
Houghton Mifflin
The first narrative history of the Civil War told by the very people it freed Groundbreaking, compelling, and poignant, The Slaves' War delivers an unprecedented vision of the nation's bloodiest conflict. An acclaimed historian of...
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Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
Arcade Publishing
Arcade Publishing
Auschwitz was one of the first books to bring the full horror of the Nazi death camps to the American public; this is, as the New York Review of Books said, "the best brief account of the Auschwitz experience available."
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The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
Studs Terkel
New Press
New Press
Studs Terkel, the noted Chicago-based journalist, gathers the reminiscences of 121 participants in World War II (called "the good war" because, in the words of one soldier, "to see fascism defeated, nothing better could have happened to a human...
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Doing Oral History
Donald A. Ritchie
Oxford University Press, USA
Oxford University Press, USA
Oral history is vital to our understanding of the cultures and experiences of the past. Unlike written history, oral history forever captures people's feelings, expressions, and nuances of language. But what exactly is oral history? How reliable is...
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The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto
Mary Berg
Oneworld Publications
Oneworld Publications
After 60 years of silence, The Diary of Mary Berg is poised at last to gain the appreciation and widespread attention that it so richly deserves, and is certain to take its place alongside The Diary of Anne Frank as one of the most significant...
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Things We Couldn't Say
Diet Eman
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Here is the incredible true story of Diet Eman, who, with her fiance, Hein Sietsma, risked everything to rescue Dutch Jews imperiled by Nazi persecution in occupied Holland during World War II. Eman's first-person narrative vividly captures the...
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