Hey all! I'm really hoping to be able to get some useful input, or good resources, here. A little background: I graduated last year with a B.A in history. I'm now in grad school working on my masters. I'm in a liberal studies program (not specifically history), at a very prestigious school (I say this not to stroke my ego, but to further illustrate my anxieties around this current project), and this project is for an oral history course. Now, I hate to sound judgmental, but I'm not sure my professor is an actual oral historian, or historian at all (he's written a ton of oral histories, but I think his degrees are in journalism, not history), and he hasn't given us any direction in conducting our interviews (none of the students have a history background, as this isn't a class in a history program. I'm the only student with a degree in history). A lot of the stuff he has said, or has shown us, or just referenced generally, goes against what I remember learning as an undergrad, as far as oral histories go. We haven't discussed any of the nuances, details, or really anything, regarding oral history, so I'm starting to get a bit worried. We were told we should have done at least one of our interviews by our next class (thursday), despite the fact that (according to the syllabus), next class is when we'll discuss how to do interviews. The professor is an older gentlemen, and thus far, has really only given us advice pertaining to using "technology," properly for the interviews (this advice is quite dated lol). So I'm hoping to get some pointers, or directed to some useful resources, regarding methodologies and techniques that would be useful in properly conducting the interviews, and how to get the story I'm looking for. I also thought I'd need some advice on how to do the writing, but the examples we've been given thus far are basically transcripts (in other words, the author didn't really write anything original. Their oral history is quite literally just writing down what their subjects said, with no additional commentary), so I guess I'm all set on that front. Thanks in advance for any tips!

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