Approaches in Oral History

   Oral History studies help societies to discover their recent histories using either the witnesses of the events or the experiences of the same people. Narratives of the individuals contribute the total data of the events which can not be detected by the regular methods of history, normally based on the acrhives and the documents. It also gives priority to the point of views of common people.

   By the way of oral history, historians can produce historical informations on a specific theme with the help of this method. Different social groups have different perspectives on the events and the historians make use of the different informations they get from these. With oral history, history becomes a more human-involved field.