oral history

NOUN

spoken historical recollection

Synonyms

WEAK

firsthand account folk literature narrative history oral record survivors' account witnesses' account

Example Sentences

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“I didn’t really have a clear idea of where my life would take me, but I do remember that first day when I walked into the newspaper office as an employee and found my little desk, and I did have a — you know — enormously delicious feeling that I’d found my place,” he recalled in a 2006 AP oral history.

From Los Angeles Times

The first decade of Paul McCartney’s second act is fully illuminated in “Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run,” an oral history drawn from interviews with band and family members, as well as other interested parties, and edited by Ted Widmer.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I just believe in service,” she said in an oral history interview with the Eastern Kentucky University Research Center for Special Collections & Archives.

From The Wall Street Journal

But they have a rich oral history filled with stories about their past that continues to this day.

From Literature

“I just turned to the person next to me,” she said in an oral history interview, “and I said: When I sing again, it’s going to be with that band.”

From The Wall Street Journal