BUIOH Scholarship

Since 1970, the team here at Baylor University’s Institute for Oral History have worked to create and disseminate ground-breaking publications on oral history. Below is a bibliography of our collective oral history publications that include best practice guides, monographs, anthologies, articles, blog posts, and public programming.

BUIOH ORAL HISTORY PUBLICATIONS

Alexander, Thomas E. SAC Time: A Navigator in the Strategic Air Command. Edited by Dan K. Utley. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2020.

Cain, Adrienne. “Launching into oral history.” OUPblog. Oxford University Press, 1 April 2016, https://blog.oup.com/2016/04/launching-into-oral-history/.

Cave, Mark, and Stephen M. Sloan, eds. Listening on the Edge: Oral History in the Aftermath of Crisis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Charlton, Thomas L. Foreword and Afterword to They Called It the War Effort: Oral Histories from World War II Orange, Texas, by Louis Fairchild, ix-xi, 453–5. 2nd ed. Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 2012.

———. Oral History for Texans. Austin, TX: Texas Historical Commission, 1981.

Charlton, Thomas L., Lois E. Myers, and Rebecca Sharpless, eds. History of Oral History: Foundations and Methodology. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2007.

Charlton, Thomas L., Lois E. Myers, Rebecca Sharpless, and Leslie Roy Ballard, eds. Handbook of Oral History. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2006.

———. eds. Thinking About Oral History: Theories and Applications. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2008.

Holland, Michelle, producer. Living Stories. Narrated by Louis Maze and Kim Patterson. 2010-   2013, on 103.3 KWBU-FM Waco, NPR. https://www.baylor.edu/library/index.php?id=974683.

———, ed. Style Guide: A Quick Reference for Editing Oral History Transcripts. Waco, TX: Baylor University Institute for Oral History, 2018.

Jones, Lu Ann, Adrienne Petty, Mark Schultz, Rebecca Sharpless, and Melissa Walker. “Complicating the Story: Oral History and the Study of the Rural South.” Agricultural History 84 (Summer 2010): 281-326.

Mazé, Elinor A. “Case Study: Baylor Institute for Oral History,” in Oral History in the Digital Age, edited by Doug Boyd, Steve Cohen, Brad Rakerd, and Dean Rehberger. Washington, D.C.: Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2012. https://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/06/baylor-institute-for-oral-history/.

———. “Deconstruction Without Destruction: Creating Metadata for Oral History in a Digital Age,” in Oral History and Digital Humanities: Voice, Access, and Engagement, edited by Douglas A. Boyd and Mary A. Larson, 145–156. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

———. “Metadata: Best Practices for Oral History Access and Preservation,” in Oral History in the Digital Age, edited by Doug Boyd, Steve Cohen, Brad Rakerd, and Dean Rehberger. Washington, D.C.: Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2012. https://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/06/metadata/.

———. “The Uneasy Page: Transcribing and Editing Oral History.” In Handbook of Oral History, edited by Thomas L. Charlton, Lois E. Myers, and Rebecca Sharpless, 237–71. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2006.

———. “The Uneasy Page: Transcribing and Editing Oral History.” In History of Oral History: Foundations and Methodology, edited by Charlton, Thomas L., Lois E. Myers, and Rebecca Sharpless, 227–261. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2007.

McDonald, Archie P. Archie P. McDonald: A Life in Texas History. Edited by Dan K. Utley. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2016.

Myers, Lois E., and Rebecca Sharpless. “‘Of the Least and the Most’: The African American Rural Church.” In African American Rural Life in the Twentieth Century, 1900-1950, edited by R. Douglas Hurt, 54–80. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2003.

Myers, Lois E., Rebecca Sharpless, and Clark Baker. Rock Beneath the Sand: Country Churches in Texas. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2003.

Patterson, Clinton A., Don M. Beach, Juanita M. Reyes, and Stephen M. Sloan. “Stakeholder Perceptions and Experiences of a College Live Mascot Program: A Study of Higher Education Ad Hoc Change,” Innovative Higher Education 46 (2021): 377–92.

Sharpless, Rebecca. Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South,1865-  1960. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

———. Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

———. “Neither Friends nor Peers: Idella Parker, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and the Limits of Gender Solidarity at Cross Creek.” The Journal of Southern History 78, no. 2 (May 2012): 327–360.

———. “She Ought to Have Taken Those Cakes: Southern Women and Rural Food Supplies.” Southern Cultures 18, no. 2 (Summer 2012): 45–58.

———. "The Women of St. Paul's Were Worried: Transforming Domestic Skills into Saleable Commodities in Texas." In The Larder: Food Studies Methods from the American South, edited by John T. Edge, Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, and Ted Ownby, 32–56. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2013.

Sharpless, Rebecca, and Melissa Walker. “Pretty Near Every Woman Done a Man's Work.” In Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century, edited by Melissa Walker and Rebecca Sharpless, 42–66. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2006.

Sielaff, Steven. “A Quick Fix: Utilizing the JK Audio QuickTap for Landline Interviews at Baylor University.” In OHA Remote Interviewing Resources—Case Studies. Oral History Association. (2020). https://www.oralhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/BUIOH-QuickTap-Landline-Case-Study.pdf.

———. “A Technophile Embraces Oral History in the Digital Age.” OUPblog. Oxford University Press, August 5, 2016. http://blog.oup.com/2016/08/oral-history-digital-age/.

———. “Brave New World: A Guide to Twenty-First Century Technology for Oral History,” Sound Historian 19 (Spring 2018): 36.

———. “Considering your digital resume.” OUPblog. Oxford University Press, October 25, 2013. http://blog.oup.com/2013/10/digital-resume-oral-historian/.

———. “In the Oral History Toolbox.” OUPblog. Oxford University Press, September 16, 2016. http://blog.oup.com/2016/09/oral-history-tools/.

———. “Metadata at BUIOH: A Case Study,” in Oral History in the Digital Age, edited by Doug Boyd, Steve Cohen, Brad Rakerd, and Dean Rehberger. Washington, D.C.: Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2012. http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2015/10/metadata-at-buioh-a-case-study/.

———. “Migratory patterns: H-OralHist finds a new home on H-Net” OUPblog. Oxford University Press, September 5, 2014. http://blog.oup.com/2014/09/h-oralhist-new-home-h-net-commons/.

———. “Patriotic Fervor: Competing Passions in Waco during WWI,” Waco Heritage & History 43, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 2–5, 18–20.

———. “World War I and the Waco Connection,” Waco Heritage & History 40, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 28–31.

Sielaff, Steven, Jen Cramer, Natalie Fousekis, Andy Kolovos, Rachel Mears, Sarah Milligan, Amy Starecheski, and Allison Tracy-Taylor. OHA Remote Interviewing Resources. Oral History Association. (2020). https://www.oralhistory.org/remote-interviewing-resources/.

Sielaff, Steven, Patrick Daglaris, Sarah Dziedzic, Heather Fox, Lauren Kata, Kristin Leaman, Leslie McCartney, et al. OHA Archiving Oral History: Manual of Best Practices. Oral History Association. (2020). https://www.oralhistory.org/archives-principles-and-best-practices-complete-manual/.

Sielaff, Steven, Lauren Kata, Natalie Milbrodt, and Jaycie Vos. Oral History Metadata and Description: A Survey of Practices. Oral History Association. (2021).   https://www.oralhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/OHA-MTF-White-Paper_2020.pdf.

Sloan, Stephen M. “Behind the ‘Curve’: COVID-19, Infodemic, and Oral History,” Oral History Review, 47 (Summer/Fall 2020): 193–202.

———. “Colliding with History: Texas Liberators of World War II Concentration Camps,” Sound Historian: The Journal of the Texas Oral History Association 15 (2013): 81–107.

———. “Confronting Horror: Concentration Camp Liberators from Texas Speak,” Texas Heritage Magazine 1 (2020): 1621.

———. “On the Other Foot: Oral History Students as Narrators,” Oral History Review 40 (Summer/Fall 2012): 298–311.

———. “Oral History and Hurricane Katrina: Reflections on Shouts and Silences,” Oral History Review 35 (Summer/Fall 2008): 176–86.

———. “Oral History and World War II: From the Front Line to the Lone Star State,” in Texas and Texans in World War II: 1941-1945, edited by Christopher B. Bean, 229–53. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2022.

———. “Swimming in the Exaflood: Oral History as Information in the Digital Age," in Oral History and Digital Humanities: Voice, Access, and Engagement, edited by   Douglas A. Boyd and Mary A. Larson, 175–186. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Sloan, Stephen M. and Mark Cave, eds. Oral History and the Environment: Global Perspectives on Climate, Connection, and Catastrophe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Sloan, Stephen, and Randy Lane, hosts. Waco History Podcast. (2018-  ) https://roguemedianetwork.com/podcast/waco-history-podcast/

Sloan, Stephen M., Lois E. Myers, and Michelle Holland, eds. Tattooed on My Soul: Texas Veterans Remember World War II. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2015.

Stricklin, David. A Genealogy of Dissent: Southern Baptist Protest in the Twentieth Century. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1999.

Stricklin, David, and Bill C. Malone. Southern Music/American Music. Revised ed. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2003.

Stricklin, David, and Rebecca Sharpless, eds. The Past Meets the Present Essays on Oral History. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998.

Stricklin, David, William M. Tillman, and Estelle Owens. “Frontier in Baptist Ethics History: a Panel.” Baptist History and Heritage 38, no. 3 (Summer/Fall 2003): 28–34.

Turner, Elizabeth Hayes, Stephanie Cole, and Rebecca Sharpless, eds. Texas Women Their Histories, Their Lives. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2015.

Utley, Dan K. “And Now I are One: A View from the Field.” East Texas Historical Journal 50, no. 1 (2012), 13–25.

———. “Nothing Drab or Monotonous: Curtis Tunnell and a West Texas Sense of Place.” Journal of Big Bend Studies 22 (2010), 7–24.

Utley, Dan K., and Milton S. Jordan. Just Between Us: Stories and Memories from the Texas Pines. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2012.

Utley, Dan K., and Virginia Long. “Sweet Success: The Debut of the Kilgore College Rangerettes.” East Texas Historical Journal 33, no. 1 (Fall 1995), 50–55.

Utley, Dan K., and Thad Sitton. From Can See to Can’t: Texas Cotton Farmers on the Southern Prairies. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1997.

Utley, Dan K., and James Wright Steely. Guided with a Steady Hand: The Cultural Landscape of a Rural Texas Park. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 1998.

Walker, Melissa, and Rebecca Sharpless, eds.Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2006.