Women in Tennessee History: A Bibliography
Oral History
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Background & Reference Works


Crawford, Charles W. "The Development of Oral History Research in Tennessee." West Tennessee Historical Society Papers 29 (1975): 100-108.



Oral Histories in Published Works


Hamburger, Robert. Our Portion of Hell: Fayette County, Tennessee: An Oral History of the Struggle for Civil Rights. New York: Links Books, 1973.

Jensen, Joan M., and Mary Johnson. "What's in a Butter Churn? Objects and Women's Oral History." Frontiers 7, no. 1 (1983): 103-108. Ann east Tennessee women discusses her butter churn in this oral history interview.

Terrill, Tom E., and Jerrold Hirsch, eds. Such As Us: Southern Voices of the Thirties. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1978. The chapter "From the Mountains Faring" includes an interview with Lola Simmons of Knoxville.

Thomas, Roy Edwin, comp. Southern Appalachia, 1885-1915: Oral Histories from the Residents of the State Corner Area of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1991. Transcriptions of interviews are arranged by subject (e.g., "Cooking," "Recreation and Entertainment"). The list of contributors (ix-x) includes several Tennessee women.





Oral History Collections - Archives and Special Collections


Black Oral History Collection. Special Collections, Fisk University Library, Nashville.

Black Women Oral History Project. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library of the History of Women in America.

Burton-Manning Oral History Collection. Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City.
Descriptions of the collection can be found in the various subject guides offered by the Archives of Appalachia.

Mississippi Valley Collection, University of Memphis.
Search the University of Memphis library catalog (username=LIBRARY) for references to oral histories.

Oral History Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Martin.
Includes over 80 audio tapes, many of which are also available in video format.
Online guide: http://www.utm.edu/departments/acadpro/library/oralhist/dir.htm.

Southern Oral History Program, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Online inventory of the collection: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/s/Southern_Oral_History_Program.html (201K)




Women in Tennessee History: A Bibliography

Ken Middleton kmiddlet@frank.mtsu.edu
Middle Tennessee State University Library