It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: Think about a difficult or sensitive topic that you’d really like a narrator to speak about, and determine  a strategy for asking (and re-asking) the question in future interviews. What will you do if your narrator demurs? How many times will you ask and ask again before you give up? How many different ways could you ask the same question to get at different answers? 

Resources 

• UNC Chapel Hill, Southern Oral History Program, Press Record. “Episode 1- Silence Speaks Volumes: Navigating Silence in Oral History Interviews”, https://sohp.org/podcast/press-record-episode-1-silence-speaks-volumes/ 
• Shopes, Linda. “Making Sense of Oral History,” in Oral History in the Digital Age, edited by Doug Boyd, Steve Cohen, Brad Rakerd, and Dean Rehberger. Washington, D.C.: Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2012, http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/08/making-sense-of-oral-history/ 
• Shopes, Linda. “Oral History and the Study of Communities: Problems, Paradoxes, and Possibilities.” The Journal of American History, vol. 89, no. 2, 2002, pp. 588–598. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3092177. 

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It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: Read about establishing boundaries with your narrators.  Do some research, then make a list of dos and don’ts for yourself.

Resources 

• Yow, Valerie. “‘Do I like Them Too Much?": Effects of the Oral History Interview on the Interviewer and Vice-Versa.” The Oral History Review, vol. 24, no. 1, 1997, pp. 55–79. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3675397. 
• Yow, Valerie. “What Can Oral Historians Learn from Psychotherapists?” Oral History, vol. 46, no. 1, 2018, pp. 33–41. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/44993454. 
• Rickard, Wendy. “Oral History- 'More Dangerous than Therapy'?: Interviewees' Reflections on Recording Traumatic or Taboo Issues.” Oral History, vol. 26, no. 2, 1998, pp. 34–48. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40179520. Accessed 19 May 2021.
• EMDR Institute, https://www.emdr.com/what-is-emdr/ 
• High, Steven. Beyond testimony and trauma : oral history in the aftermath of mass violence (2015). 
• Sloan, Stephen. “Oral History and Hurricane Katrina: Reflections on Shouts and Silences.” The Oral History Review, vol. 35, no. 2, 2008, pp. 176–186. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20628031. 
• Reynolds, Robert. “Trauma and The Relational Dynamics of Life-History Interviewing.” (2012).
• Cramer, Jennifer. “First, Do No Harm”: Tread Carefully Where Oral History, Trauma, and Current Crises Intersect Oral History Review (9/2020).

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It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: Today’s challenge, therefore, is two-fold. Listen to or watch an interview you’ve previously recorded and evaluate your use of silences. Next, take a look at Sander’s suggestions linked in the show notes, select one, and give it a try.

Resources 

• Howard Levin, “Authentic Doing.” The Oral History Review (2011). https://www.jstor.org/stable/41440850?seq=1 
• Hendry PM. The Future of Narrative. Qualitative Inquiry. 2007;13(4):487-498. doi:10.1177/1077800406297673
• Ashlee Cunsolo Willox, Sherilee L Harper, Victoria L Edge, “Storytelling in a digital age: digital storytelling as an emerging narrative method for preserving and promoting indigenous oral wisdom.” Qualitative Research, 2012. https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.944.7484&rep=rep1&type=pdf 
• Caroleen Molenaar, “Indigenous Oral Histories and Primary Sources.” The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2020. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/indigenous-oral-histories-and-primary-sources 
• Oral History Master of Arts, Columbia University. “Oral History, Indigenous Oral Histories, and Decolonization” (2020). http://oralhistory.columbia.edu/blog-posts/people/oral-history-projects-that-challenge-white-supremacy-tww54 
• Linda Tuhiwai Smith Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (1999). https://eclinish.com/products/eclinishwrdsnjnczcfrz/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw7pKFBhDUARIsAFUoMDZZn2TUQrKolrqs50Q73qHPboJgrfLVdGStpf-OSGvRfFbqz0qncXAaAs5xEALw_wcB 
• Bauer, William. We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here. (2009). https://uncpress.org/book/9780807872734/we-were-all-like-migrant-workers-here/ 

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It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: Today’s challenge, therefore, is two-fold. Listen to or watch an interview you’ve previously recorded and evaluate your use of silences. Next, take a look at Sander’s suggestions linked in the show notes, select one, and give it a try.

Resources 

• Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years (2009). 
• Refer back to our previous episode, 2.10. Two Seconds of Silence 
• Oral History Review, https://oralhistoryreview.org/tag/silence/ 
• Emma Kluge, “The Art of Silence: what I've learnt from doing oral histories” 2018. https://www.emmakluge.com/blog/2018/2/21/the-art-of-silence-what-ive-learnt-from-doing-oral-histories 
• Namkje Koudenburg, Tom Postmes, Ernestine H. Gordijn, “Disrupting the flow: How brief silences in group conversations affect social needs,” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 2, (2011). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2010.12.006. 
• (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002210311000274X) 
• Viktor Sanders, “How to Be Comfortable With Silence in a Conversation.” Social Pro (2021). https://socialpronow.com/blog/dont-be-afraid-of-the-silence/#:~:text=Know%20that%20silence%20has%20a%20purpose%20in%20all%20conversations&text=When%20you%20talk%20about%20important,feel%20comfortable%20with%20each%20other. 

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It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: Track down Susan Kraft’s piece.  Read it and then respond her questions in your journal. What do you want to know and why? 

Resources 

• Susan L. Kraft, “Private Lives in Public Places–Oral Histories of Performing Artists: How Much Do You Really Want to Know?” Journal of Archival Organization, 2003: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/10.1300/J201v02n01_05?scroll=top&needAccess=true  

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It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: Think of a family member you’d like to interview. First, take a look at the UCLA source and think through some of the pre-interview steps. Then, scroll to the bottom and consider their family history sample outline. Make your own or adapt theirs, and then call your family member to get them scheduled!  

Resources 

• UCLA Special Collections, “https://www.library.ucla.edu/destination/center-oral-history-research/resources/conducting-oral-histories-family-members 
• Barbara Sadick, “Creating an Oral History of Your Family,” Wall Street Journal, 2020.  https://www.wsj.com/articles/creating-an-oral-history-of-your-family-step-by-step-11605312323  

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It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: Create a timeline for your narrator. How has your narrator’s life been woven into local, national, and global history? How does your narrator’s story help to further explain the history of your specific research?

Resources 

• Nina Willner, Forty Autumns: A Family’s Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall. (Harper Collins, 2016). 

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It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: Set a timer – I’m going to go with 2 hours. In that time, do a deep dive on all things legal and oral history. 

Resources 

• John A. Neuenschwander. A Guide to Oral History and the Law. Vol. Second edition, Oxford University Press, 2014. EBSCOhost, search-ebscohost-com.ez2.maricopa.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xna&AN=830616&site=ehost-live.
• Eustis, Truman W. “Get It in Writing: Oral History and the Law.” The Oral History Review, vol. 4, 1976, pp. 6–18. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3674938.  Accessed 4 May 2021.
• https://www.oralhistory.org/publications/pamphlet-series/

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It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: First, write your philosophy of shared authority when it comes to oral history work. I encourage you to do some research in developing your philosophy. Then, establish a plan for following this philosophy for every interview you conduct. 

Resources 

• Tracy E. K'Meyer, and A. Glenn Crothers. “‘If I See Some of This in Writing, I'm Going to Shoot You’: Reluctant Narrators, Taboo Topics, and the Ethical Dilemmas of the Oral Historian.” The Oral History Review, vol. 34, no. 1, 2007, pp. 71–93. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4495418.  Accessed 4 May 2021.
•  Sitzia, Lorraine. “A Shared Authority: An Impossible Goal?” The Oral History Review, vol. 30, no. 1, 2003, pp. 87–101. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3675353.  Accessed 4 May 2021.
• Frisch, Michael. "Sharing authority: oral history and the collaborative process. (Commentary)." The Oral History Review, vol. 30, no. 1, 2003, p. 111+. Gale Academic OneFile,link.gale.com/apps/doc/A100808562/AONE?u=mcc_smtn&sid=AONE&xid=a473d0db.   Accessed 5 May 2021. 
• Frisch, Michael. A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History, 1990. https://www.sunypress.edu/p-766-a-shared-authority.aspx 

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It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: Identify the metadata of the interview or interviews you’ve already conducted.

Resources 

• Oral history Association, White Paper, “Oral History Metadata and Description:
  A Survey of Practices” https://www.oralhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/OHA-MTF-White-Paper_2020.pdf 
• Eleanora Anedde, “Determining Metadata From Website to Archive: Designing Metadata for the South Phoenix Oral History Project,” Southwest oral history association, spring 2021. 
• Example of our metadata table (scroll to the bottom): https://southphoenixoralhistory.com/lydia-burruel-johnson/ 
• Oral History Association, “Metadata” https://www.oralhistory.org/metadata/ 
• Oral History Metadata Synchronizer: https://www.oralhistoryonline.org/ 
• University of Washington, Special Collections, "Data Dictionary:" https://www.lib.washington.edu/cams/mig/datadicts/special-collections-oral-histories-data-dictionary 

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