| Women in Tennessee
History: A Bibliography Oral History |
Background & Reference WorksCrawford, Charles W. "The Development of Oral History Research in
Tennessee." West Tennessee Historical Society Papers 29 (1975):
100-108.
Oral Histories in Published WorksHamburger, 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 CollectionsBlack 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. Mississippi Valley Collection, University of Memphis. Oral History Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee
at Martin. Southern Oral History Program, Southern
Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Middle Tennessee State University Library |