Historical Research with Photographs and Oral Histories

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“Montgomery Bus Boycott”	Records that have the exact phrase Montgomery Bus Boycott
Albany OR Augusta +integration	Records with the word integration that also contain the words Albany and/or Augusta
King -Martin	Records with the name King but not the name Martin
“Freedom Rides” AND Carter	Records containing the phrase “Freedom Rides” and the name Carter
Selma AND (Lewis OR Williams)	Records containing the words Selma and Lewis or Selma and Williams

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Historical Research with Photographs and Oral Histories

Appleby, Joyce, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob. Telling the Truth About History. W. W. Norton & Company, 1994
Gingell, Susan, and Wendy Roy. Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking beyond : Interfaces of the Oral, Written, and Visual. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012.
Jackson, John Brinckerhoff. A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time. Yale University Press, 1994
Kammen, Carol. On Doing Local History, Reflections on What Local Historians Do, Why, and What It Means. Alta Mira Press, 1995.
Lippard, Lucy R. The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society. The New Press, 1997.
McJunkin, Roy. A Guide to Research Using Photographs. Riverside, Calif.: California Museum of Photography, 1986.
Schultz, John. Picture Research: A Practical Guide. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991.
Smallwood, Carol, and Elaine Williams. Preserving Local Writers, Genealogy, Photographs, Newspapers, and Related Materials. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2012