Category: Oral historians

In 1967, American oral historians founded the Oral History Association, and British oral historians founded the Oral History Society in 1969.

Oral historians generally prefer to ask open-ended questions and avoid leading questions that encourage people to say what they think the interviewer wants them to say.

Category: Oral historians

According to the New York Times, " many professional historians dismiss Mr. Barton, whose academic degree is in Christian Education from Oral Roberts University, as a biased amateur who cherry-picks quotes from history and the Bible.

Over time, different traditions of the Oral Law came into being, raising debates about what the laws or their rulings were.

Oral history strives to obtain information from different perspectives, and most of these cannot be found in written sources.

Author and professor Mona Lisa Saloy posits a different theory, stating in African American Oral Traditions in Louisiana that " The dozens has its origins in the slave trade of New Orleans where deformed slaves — generally slaves punished with dismemberment for disobedience — were grouped in lots of a ' cheap dozen ' for sale to slave owners.

A fourth point of conflict, specifically religious, involved different interpretations of the Torah and how to apply it to current Jewish life, with the Sadducees recognizing only the Written Torah and rejecting doctrines such as the Oral Torah and the Resurrection of the Dead.

Oral history claims a dispute between merchants was the cause, but the combination of communities in two different counties and two different towns was unwieldy.

The Centre has three specialist clinical departments to attend to a wide range of different oral conditions, namely the Departments of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Orthodontics and Restorative Dentistry.

Oral tradition indicates that the constructions and remodelling occurred in three different places within Salão ( in Pé do Pico, later Achada da Igreja and finally in its present location ), although no records provide dates for its original construction or these latter remodelling projects associated with the different locations.

As Huxley said in his Advertisement of the Reader, most of the content of his book had been presented to the public before: " The greater part of the following essays has already been published in the form of Oral Discourses, addressed to widely different audiences, during the past three years.

Oral storytelling remains the dominant medium of learning in some countries with low literacy rates.

Oral poetry may qualify as an epic, and Albert Lord and Milman Parry have argued that classical epics were fundamentally an oral poetic form.

Oral gelatin consumption have been claimed to have beneficial therapeutic effect on hair loss in both men and women ..

Some of the main trends in modern Homeric scholarship have been, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Analysis and Unitarianism ( see Homeric Question ), schools of thought which emphasized on the one hand the inconsistencies in, and on the other the artistic unity of, Homer ; and in the 20th century and later Oral Theory, the study of the mechanisms and effects of oral transmission, and Neoanalysis, the study of the relationship between Homer and other early epic material.

Oral tradition and Gaelic scholars who have preserved these traditions from the Hebrides also reference the most disastrous war fought between the MacLeods and MacDonalds of Skye, culminating in the Battle of Coire Na Creiche, " when Donald Gorm Mor who handfasted a year and a day with Margaret MacLeod, a sister of Rory Mor of Dunvegan, expelled his mistress so ignominiously from Duntulm.

The laws are from the word of God in the Torah, using a set of rules also revealed by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, and have been derived with the utmost accuracy and care, and thus the Oral Law is considered to be no less the word of God.

Oral story-tellers have been known to read literary fairy tales to increase their own stock of stories and treatments.

Oral and intravenous administration seem to have similar efficacy.

Oral rehydration solutions ( ORS ) with modest amounts of salts and zinc tablets are the treatment of choice and have been estimated to have saved 50 million children in the past 25 years.

Orthodox Judaism holds that both Conservative and Reform Judaism have made major and unjustifiable breaks with historic Judaism, both by their skepticism of the verbal revelation of Written and Oral Torah, and by their rejection of halakhic ( Jewish legal ) precedent as binding ( though to varying degrees ).

Thus in all forms of Judaism following the Oral Law, women are allowed to marry whom they wish, including exogamously, whether they have gained an inheritance or not.

Two institutions of higher education within the city have sports teams at the NCAA Division I level, Oral Roberts University and the University of Tulsa.

Oral corticosteroids decrease the hair loss, but only for the period during which they are taken, and these drugs have serious adverse side effects.

Oral contraceptives that mediate progesterone have no effect on androgens but may be combined with spironolactone and cyproterone acetate for the purpose of correcting menstrual irregularities.

Oral contraceptives have been known to increase the levels of sex hormone-binding globulin ( SHBG ) in the body.

Oral lorazepam, and other benzodiazepines, have a role in long-term prophylactic treatment of resistant forms of petit mal epilepsy, but not as first-line therapies, mainly because of the development of tolerance to their effects.

Oral nicotine supplements have shown some reduction in the occurrence.

Harry McNevin said that in 1988 the ORU Board of Regents " rubber-stamped " the " use of millions in endowment money to buy a Beverly Hills property so that Oral Roberts could have a West Coast office and house ".

Several ministers who were raised in the Pentecostal Holiness Church have come to have greater name recognition than the church itself, such as Oral Roberts, an internationally known charismatic evangelist ; Charles Stanley, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention ; and C. M.

Oral calcitonin may have a chondroprotective role in osteoarthritis ( OA ), according to data in rats presented in December, 2005, at the 10th World Congress of the Osteoarthritis Research Society International ( OARSI ) in Boston, Massachusetts.

Oral tradition has it that the Annang and the entire people of akwa Ibom and Cross River States of Nigeria ( AKwaCross people ) have occupied their land in the coastal Southeastern Nigeria thousands of years before the birth of Christ.

Oral history about Nsukka Town has it that it has a very close tie with three other neighbouring towns ; Obukpa, Okpuje and Eha as they are said to have common ancestral origin.

Oral history is the collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews.

The Maggid Meisharim ( 1646 ; “ Preacher of Righteousness ”), another major work, a strange and mystical diary, is a kind of diary in which Karo during a period of fifty years recorded the nocturnal visits of an angelic being, his heavenly mentor, the personified Mishna ( the authoritative collection of Jewish Oral Law ).

It posits that the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke were based on the Gospel of Mark and a hypothetical sayings collection from the Christian Oral Tradition called Q.

* 1956 Hungarian Memorial Oral History Project Multicultural Canada oral history collection of revolution refugees in Canada

* Notable New Yorkers-Frances Perkins — Biography, photographs, and interviews of Frances Perkins from the Notable New Yorkers collection of the Oral History Research Office at Columbia University

* Folklore and Oral History collection for Little Fogo Island

* Notable New Yorkers-Bennett Cerf Biography, photographs, and the audio and transcript of Bennett Cerf's oral history from the Notable New Yorkers collection of the Oral History Research Office at Columbia University.

The USHMM has one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Holocaust-related materials in the world, separated into eight collection divisions: Archives, Arts and Artifacts, Film and Video, Music, Oral History, Photograph, Management, and Conservation.

In 2012, digital archivists at the university library worked with officials at a local veterans museum to launch the Texas Military Veterans Oral History collection.

* Oral history collection related to Ferryland Constabulary officers

Oral history from the museum's own collection is used to complement the exhibitions with " listening posts " covering several topics being situated around the building.

Its special collection includes the Gordon Tracie Music Library and the Vanishing Generations Oral History Project.

The MLA Oral History Project is an ongoing collection of audio interviews, focused on the history of health sciences librarianship and the history of the Medical Library Association.

In April 2000 Ted became the very first person interviewed for the NAMM Oral History program, a video collection of interviews with many of the leaders and pioneers of the music products industry.