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Behar, Ruth. Translated Woman. Boston: Beacon P, 1993.

Brokaw, Tom. The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections. New York: Random House, 1999.

Brown, Cynthia Stokes. Connecting with the Past: History Workshop for Middle and High Schools. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1994.

---. Like It Was: A Complete Guide to Writing Oral History. New York: Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 1988.

Flynn, Robert and Susan Russell. When I Was Just Your Age. Denton, TX: U of North Texas P, 1993.

Gorkin, M., M. Pineda, and G. Leal. From Grandmother to Granddaughter: Salvadoran Women's Stories. Berkley: U of California P, 2000.

Humphries, Stephen. The Handbook of Oral History: Recording Life Stories. London: Inter-Action Inprint, 1984.

Ives, Edward D. The Tape-Recorded Interview: A Manual for Fieldworkers in Folklore and Oral History. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1995.

Klebenow, Anne and Suzanne Ivester, eds. 200 Years Through 200 Stories: A Tennessee Bicentennial Collection. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1997.

Lanman, Barry Allen and George L. Mehaffy. Oral History in the Secondary School Classroom. Provo: Oral History Association, 1988. 

Lawlor, Veronica, illus. I Was Dreaming to Come to America: Memories from the Ellis Island Oral History Project. New York: Viking Children's Books, 1995.

McBride, James. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. New York: Riverhead Books, 1996. 

Moon, Elaine Latzman. Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes: An Oral History of Detroit's African-American Community, 1918-1967. Detroit: Wayne State U P, 1993.

Preciado-Martin, Patricia. Songs My Mother Sang to Me: An Oral History of Mexican-American Women. Tucson: University of Arizona P, 1992.

Ritchie, Donald A. Doing Oral History. New York: Twayne, 1994.

Roy, Beth. Bitters in the Honey: Tales of Hope and Disappointment Across Divides of Race and Time. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 1999.

Sitton, Thad, O. L. Davis, Jr., and George Mehaffy. Oral History: A Guide for Teachers (and Others). Austin: U of Texas P, 1983.

Terkel, Studs. American Dreams, Lost and Found. New York: Ballantine, 1981.

---. The Good War: An Oral History of World War II. New York: Pantheon, 1984.

---. Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression. New York: Pantheon, 1984.

Wigginton, Eliot. Sometimes a Shining Moment: The Foxfire Experience. Garden City: Anchor P/Doubleday, 1985.

Wright, Ann., trans. I Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala. London: Verso, 1984.

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