Definitions for oral history
oral his·to·ry

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1. Oral history

   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. These interviews are conducted with people who participated in or observed past events and whose memories and perceptions of these are to be preserved as an aural record for future generations. Oral history strives to obtain information from different perspectives, and most of these cannot be found in written sources. Oral history also refers to information gathered in this manner and to a written work based on such data, often preserved in archives and large libraries. The term is sometimes used in a more general sense to refer to any information about past events that people who experienced them tell anybody else, but professional historians usually consider this to be oral tradition. However, as the Columbia Encyclopedia explains: Primitive societies have long relied on oral tradition to preserve a record of the past in the absence of written histories. In Western society, the use of oral material goes back to the early Greek historians Herodotus and Thucydides, both of whom made extensive use of oral reports from witnesses. The modern concept of oral history was developed in the 1940s by Allan Nevins and his associates at Columbia University.

How to pronounce oral history?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

How to say oral history in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of oral history in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of oral history in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of oral history in a Sentence

1. Dulce Vazquez:

   Oral history tells us that it was very difficult for them to leave the place, not just because of the buildings, but because of the sense of belonging to the place, a few resisted until they saw it was already a reality that the water would arrive and cover the entire town.

2. Mayyu Ali:

   There are a million Rohingya, each of us has an oral history, each one of us has trauma. I want a new generation to write for themselves.

References

1. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=oral history