Fires of Wisdom:

Mills College Alumnae Oral History Project

1913 - 1944


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Here's a list of books on history and women's education that we used to prepare our dramatic reading:


Alma Mater by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, 1984

In the Company of Educated Women, by Barbara Miller Solomon, 1985

The Story of Cyrus and Susan Mills, by Elias Olan James

Four Score and Ten Years, by Roslind Keep



And these are some of the sources we used to create our oral history training curriculum:


An Oral Historian's Work. Videocassette. Written and produced by Edward D. (Sandy) Ives, University of Maine and Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History; 1987. 37 min.


Fieldwork by Bruce Jackson Urbana:Illinois University Press, 1987

Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History. NY: Routledge Press, 1991

Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminst Theory and Personal Narratives by the Feminst Narrative Group. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.

An Oral History Primer by Gary Shumway & William Hartley, 1973

Preparing a Personal History, by William G. Hartley



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