Hello everyone! In today’s blog post I will be discussing oral history. You may ask yourself “what is oral history?” Well, oral history can have different meanings but the definition is the collection and study of historical information using sound recordings of interviews with people having personal knowledge of past events. Oral history plays a big part in history because instead of reading the information provided it can be helpful but listening to someone describe the past events gives you a better understanding. You can hear the person's tone of voice of the interviewer and the interviewee and hear how they feel about the questions being asked. An example of oral history is you can look at is the Stanford Historical Society's Oral History Program . These stories are public and they explain the history of the University. This collection had over a hundred projects with audio and some with transcripts. This website I have fo...