These books are available through ProQuest's Ebook Central . Click on the title for direct link to ebook. (This list is a work in progress).
General How-To Oral History
- Deblasio, Donna M., Ganzert, Charles F., Mould, David H., Paschen, Stephen H., and Sacks, Howard L.. Catching Stories : A Practical Guide to Oral History. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2009.
- Perks, Robert, and Thomson, Alistair, eds. The Oral History Reader. Oxford: Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
- Ritchie, Donald A. Doing Oral History : A Practical Guide. Cary: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2003.
- Yow, Valerie Raleigh. Recording Oral History : A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences. California: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014.
More Advanced Oral History Methodology and Theory
- Cave, Mark, and Sloan, Stephen M., eds. Listening on the Edge : Oral History in the Aftermath of Crisis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2014.
- Embry, Jessie L., ed. Oral History, Community, and Work in the American West. University of Arizona Press, 2013.
- Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd, D. Pollock, and Fred Halliday. Remembering : Oral History Performance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2005.
- Hamilton, Paula and Linda Shopes. Oral History and Public Memories. Temple University Press, 2008.
- Janesick, Valerie J.. Oral History for the Qualitative Researcher: Choreographing the Story. New York: Guilford Publications, 2010.
- Leavy, Patricia. Oral History : Understanding Qualitative Research. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2011.
- McKay, Nancy. Curating Oral Histories : From Interview to Archive. Walnut Creek: Taylor & Francis Group, 2006.
- Neuenschwander, John A. A Guide to Oral History and the Law. Cary: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2014.
- Stead, Naomi, Gosseye, Janina, and van der Plaat, Deborah, eds. Speaking of Buildings: Oral History in Architectural Research. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2019.
- Thompson, Paul. Voice of the Past : Oral History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2000.
- Trower, Shelley. Sound Writing: Voices, Authors, and Readers of Oral History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2023.
- Vaněk, Miroslav. Around the Globe. Rethinking Oral History with Its Protagonists. Prague: Karolinum Press, 2013.
Oral Histories and Archives
Oral History and Gender Studies
- Boyd, Nan Alamilla, and Roque Ramirez, Horacio N., eds. Bodies of Evidence : The Practice of Queer Oral History. Cary: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2012.
- Johnson, E. Patrick. Black. Queer. Southern. Women : An Oral History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
- Martin, Patricia Preciado. Songs My Mother Sang to Me : An Oral History of Mexican American Women. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1992.
- Smith, Anne. Women Remember : An Oral History. Oxford: Taylor & Francis Group, 2012.
- Schweninger, Lee, ed. The First We Can Remember : Colorado Pioneer Women Tell Their Stories. Lincoln: Nebraska Paperback, 2011.
Selected Oral History Studies and Examples
- Fosl, Catherine, and K'Meyer, Tracy E.. Freedom on the Border : An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
- Moye, J. Todd. Freedom Flyers : The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2012.
- Portelli, Alessandro. They Say in Harlan County: An Oral History. New York: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2010.
- Rogers, Carole Garibaldi. Habits of Change : An Oral History of American Nuns. Cary: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2011.
- Sloan, Stephen M., and Cave, Mark, eds. Oral History and the Environment : Global Perspectives on Climate, Connection, and Catastrophe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2022.
- Turkel, Studs. Hard Times : An Illustrated Oral History of the Great Depression. New York: The New Press, 2012.
- Walker, Melissa. Southern Farmers and Their Stories : Memory and Meaning in Oral History. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006.