Thomas L. Charlton is professor of history at Baylor University. He is director of The Texas Collection library/archival center and author of Oral History for Texans (1981, 1985). Lois E. Myers is associate sirector of the Institute for Oral History at Baylor University. Rebecca Sharpless is assistant professor in the Department of History at Texas Christian University.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Looking for Vade MecumPart 2 I. FoundationsChapter 3 1. The History of Oral HistoryChapter 4 2. Oral History as EvidencePart 5 II. MethodologyChapter 6 3. Research Design and StrategiesChapter 7 4. Legal and Ethical Issues in Oral HistoryChapter 8 5. Oral History Interviews: From Inception to ClosureChapter 9 6. Oral History and Archives: Documenting ContextChapter 10 7. The Uneasy Page: Transcribing and Editing Oral HistoryPart 11 III. TheoriesChapter 12 8. Memory Theory: Personal and SocialChapter 13 9. Aging, the Life Course, and Oral History: African American Narratives of Struggle, Social Change, and DeclineChapter 14 10. A Conversation Analytic Approach to Oral History InterviewingChapter 15 11. Women's Oral History: Is It So Special?Chapter 16 12. Narrative TheoryPart 17 IV. ApplicationsChapter 18 13. Publishing Oral History: Oral Exchange and Print CultureChapter 19 14. Biography and Oral HistoryChapter 20 15. Fractious Action: Oral History-Based PerformanceChapter 21 16. Oral History in Sound and Moving Image Documentaries

This handbook is an inspired combination of the practical and the theoretical. An essential companion for anyone interested in the multifarious, cross-disciplinary research movement that has come to be known as 'oral history.'