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The 110 pages that link to Oral history, each with the reason it gives.

• Documentary literatureRelated: Interview testimony can supply voices and memories that documentary literature organizes into narrative.

• Epic of SundiataRelated: The epic preserves historical memory, though its performances are not uniform chronicles.

• Holocaust historiographyNarrower topic: Holocaust testimony raises broader questions about memory, interviewing, and the use of lived experience.

• Holocaust survivor testimonyNarrower topic: Recorded interviews are a major form of survivor testimony.

• Tiananmen MothersNarrower topic: Relatives’ accounts preserve experiences often excluded from official histories.

• Transgender historyRelated: It preserves experiences often absent from official documents, while raising questions about memory and context.

• Numbered TreatiesRelated: Oral accounts preserve Indigenous understandings of promises that written texts may omit.

• The Afghanistan PapersRelated: Many accounts in the archive are retrospective interviews, not contemporaneous battlefield reports.

• New HistoriansCompared with: Testimony and archival documents offer distinct evidence, especially where official records are incomplete.

• PseudohistoryRelated: It shows that firsthand testimony can be historical evidence when critically contextualized.

• The Gulag ArchipelagoRelated: Accounts from fellow prisoners helped Solzhenitsyn reconstruct experiences beyond his own.

• Academic historyRelated: It expands historical evidence through testimony, while raising distinct questions about memory and mediation.

• Alex HaleyRelated: Interview-based testimony informed Haley’s work on Malcolm X’s life and his family narrative.

• Elena PoniatowskaRelated: Her books often build their accounts from speech gathered in interviews.

• Kunta KinteRelated: The novel’s ancestry claims raise questions about how testimony can be checked against records.

• Photographic archiveRelated: Interviews can identify people, places, and circumstances absent from photographic records.

• Radio documentaryRelated: Oral-history recordings can provide primary testimony for documentaries about lived experience.

• ShakaNarrower topic: Zulu oral traditions preserve accounts of Shaka that complement and complicate written records.

• The Autobiography of Malcolm XNarrower topic: The autobiography grew from recorded conversations rather than a conventional manuscript drafted by Malcolm.

• The Last Picture ShowNarrower topic: The film’s recollections of a disappearing town echo oral history’s attention to lived memory.

• Assia DjebarRelated: She incorporated women’s voices and remembered speech into literary accounts of the past.

• Central Asian studiesRelated: Recorded testimony can document experiences absent from official archives.

• Art SpiegelmanRelated: Spiegelman based much of his parents’ story on interviews with his father.

• Claude LanzmannNarrower topic: Lanzmann’s films make extended testimony their main source of historical evidence.

• Contemporary historyRelated: Living witnesses can describe experiences absent from official records.

• EthnohistoryRelated: Oral testimony can preserve events and perspectives absent from written archives.

• Nadezhda MandelstamRelated: Her remembered conversations resemble testimony but were shaped into literary memoir.

• Buddy BoldenRelated: Accounts from musicians and witnesses preserve details unavailable in recordings.

• Heinrich BarthRelated: Barth used testimony from African informants to investigate regional histories.

• Jean FroissartRelated: Froissart gathered accounts from people with direct or courtly knowledge of events.

• Local historyRelated: Interviews preserve experiences absent from official local records.

• Amadou Hampâté BâRelated: His scholarship strengthened the case for using spoken testimony to reconstruct the past.

• Historic house museumRelated: Recorded testimony can add lived experience where documents and objects leave gaps.

• Ryszard KapuścińskiRelated: Anonymous testimony and reconstructed voices in his books invite questions about sourcing and corroboration.

• SayfoRelated: Survivor and descendant testimonies preserve accounts of violence and flight.

• Svetlana AlexievichRelated: Interview testimony supplies the voices and memories at the center of her books.

• Walter IsaacsonRelated: Interviews and recollections supply key evidence in several Isaacson biographies.

• Allan NevinsRelated: Nevins helped build an institutional program for preserving interviews as historical evidence.

• Cornelius RyanNarrower topic: Interviews with participants supplied personal perspectives for Ryan’s campaign histories.

• History of North AmericaRelated: Oral traditions and interviews preserve histories often absent from written colonial records.

• Human historyRelated: Testimony preserves experiences often absent from official written records.

• Moriori genocideRelated: Moriori oral traditions preserve accounts that complement written records produced by outsiders.

• Recorded historyCompared with: Oral testimony preserves historical knowledge that documents may omit or distort.

• Rithy PanhRelated: Survivors’ and former officials’ accounts are central to his films.

• Stephen E. AmbroseNarrower topic: Ambrose relied heavily on interviews with veterans, especially for his World War II books.

• Studs TerkelNarrower topic: Terkel made extended interviews with ordinary people the foundation of his historical books.

• Albert FaceyRelated: Facey’s interviews complement his written memoir and document how he narrated his own experiences.

• Antony BeevorRelated: Personal testimony helps bring soldiers’ and civilians’ experiences into his accounts.

• Elizabeth F. ElletRelated: Ellet drew on interviews and recollections to document women’s experiences.

• Giuseppe Gasparo MezzofantiRelated: Many stories about his conversational feats reached later readers through reported encounters.