A candid and comprehensive oral history of Silicon Valley's secrets traces the disruptions and start-ups that impacted its economy from the origins of Apple and Atari through the present-day clashes of Google and Facebook A candid, colorful, and comprehensive oral history that …
"An oral history of basketball"-- "Inspired by a landmark ESPN film series, this is an extraordinary oral history of basketball--its eye-opening untold history, its profound deeper meaning, its transformative influence on the world--as told through an unprecedented series of ca…
History is often a manufactured commodity; its specifications change at the behest of larger political narratives. There is a constant need for recognition that at any point in time, history exists on two different planes of understanding – one, as the historian’s version of eve…
This thesis discusses the relationships of misplaced ancestors of perceived African ancestry and the Muscogee Nation's ancestral lands in Middle Georgia. These ancestors were excavated from Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park (OMNHP) almost 90 years ago (1930s and 1940s) in…
Public memory on Block Island largely ignores Black and Indigenous labor, life, and legacy. Reclaiming the past and present narratives of Black and Indigenous peoples on Block Island challenges historical erasure; their experiences can then become a meaningful part of the collec…
The closure of the mental hospitals in the UK in the twentieth century has potentially obscured the relevance of psychiatric hospitals as therapeutic environments. The thesis explores the impact of closing the large-scale mental hospitals in the latter part of the twentieth cent…
Women in diplomacy have received attention from historians and scholars of international relations and political science, yet the characteristics and personal stories of women ambassadors 1960-1989 are still largely neglected. The movement of women into critical, senior-level ro…
The purpose of this oral history research is to explore the experiences, thoughts, and values of higher education experts who have written and presented on popular music techniques over time (from 1980-forward) and who incorporate popular music strategies into their own teaching…
This dissertation seeks to redefine post-Holocaust survivor testimony through both literary and archival sources. The project explores a variety of genres and linguistic traditions including: Modern Hebrew poetry, French memoir writing, and video-testimony. The writers or speake…