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Selected Resources for Communication Research - CAS 204 - Spring 2006
ORAL HISTORY RESOURCES
BOOKS AT PENN STATE LIBRARIES
Search the CAT ( for books at Vairo Library and all Penn State Libraries. 21 titles were found in ALL Libraries on the topic of oral history methodology using this search strategy:
Topic: Subject & Title: oral history AND methodology
Listed below are a few of the titles at Vairo Library and other locations. Use I WANT IT to request books that are not at Vairo Library:
D16.14.Y68 2005 2005
Recording oral history : a guide for the humanities and social sciences 2nd ed. by Yow, Valerie Raleigh.
Copies available at Penn State Altoona, Penn State Erie, Penn State Berks, Penn StateDelawareCounty, and Penn State Hazleton
D16.14.R57 2003 2003
Doing oral history : a practical guide 2nd ed. By Ritchie, Donald A., 1945-
Copies available at Pattee Library and Paterno Library Stacks (UP) and Penn State Altoona
D16.14.S69 2002 2002
The oral history manual by Sommer, Barbara W.
Copies available at Pattee Library and Paterno Library Stacks (UP) and Penn State Altoona
D14.Y69 1994 1994
Recording oral history : a practical guide for social scientists by Yow, Valerie Raleigh.
Copies available at Pattee Library and Paterno Library Stacks (UP), Penn State Harrisburg, and Penn State McKeesport
World Wide Web Resources
A GOOGLE search on “oral history” guidelines retrieves many helpful websites. A few of them are:
Some Guides to Conducting an Oral History
Mississippi Oral History Teaching Guide
Oral History Evaluation Guidelines
Putting Together an Oral History Project: Overall Guidelines
Oral History Ethical Guidelines:
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FRENCH RESISTANCE
World War 1939 – 1945 - Underground Movement - France
BOOKS AT PENN STATE LIBRARIES
Search the CAT ( for books at Vairo Library and all Penn State Libraries. 22 books were found on the topic of escapes or personal narratives related to the WWII French Resistance movement by using this search strategy below.
Search the CAT by title to identify the locations of these books. Use I WANT IT to request books that are not at Vairo Library
Topic: Subject & Title:
World War 1939 – 1945 AND Underground Movement AND France AND
Keywords Anywhere:
Escapes OR Personal Narratives NOT
Keywords Anywhere:
Fiction
> Agents for escape [electronic resource] : inside the French Resistance, 1939-1945
Rougeyron, André
> Das Reich : the march of the 2nd SS Panzer Division through France
Hastings, Max
> The night will end
Frenay, Henri, 1905-1988
> Noah's Ark.
Fourcade, Marie-Madeleine, 1909-
> Unrecognized resistance : the Franco-American experience in World War Two
Colloque sur la "nébuleuse du dévouement" (2000 : Paris, France)
> Silent heroes : downed airmen and the French underground
Ottis, Sherri Greene, 1964-
> Convoy to Auschwitz : women of the French resistance
Delbo, Charlotte
> Biancastella : a Jewish partisan in World War II
Burger, Harry, 1924-
> Agents for escape : inside the French Resistance, 1939-1945
Rougeyron, André
> Code name Christiane Clouet : a woman in the French Resistance
Chevrillon, Claire, 1907-
> Spyglass : an autobiography
Deschamps, Hélène
>Hide-and-seek with the German army : part 1, an exciting account of a B-17 pilot who was shot down over France and rescued by the French underground
Smith, Richard M., 1920-
> Outwitting the Gestapo
Aubrac, Lucie, 1912-
> Noah's Ark
Fourcade, Marie-Madeleine, 1909-
> Escape through the Pyrenees
Fittko, Lisa, 1909-
> Paris-underground
Shiber, Etta
> Time out for war
Cury, Ed C
> The doctor and the damned
Haas, Albert, 1911-
> Road to resistance : an autobiography
Millar, George Reid
> M.I.A., missing in action
Causer, H. Phillip
> The two Jacks : the adventures of Major Jack L. Fairweather and Major Jack M. Veness
Bird, Will R. (Will Richard), 1891-
> Memoirs of a secret agent of Free France
Rémy, 1904-
> Rebelles, soldats et citoyens : carnet d'un commissaire de la république
Farge, Yves, 1899-1953
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World Wide Web Resources
A GOOGLE search on “JADE FITZROY” retrieves 113 websites, primarily in French.
Google provides a link to “translate the page” for many sites. Review this and other sites for information about the Jade Fitzroy intelligence and escape network in the underground resistance movement in France during WW II:
Pédagogie - Outre les réseaux d'évasion, deux grands réseaux de renseignements fonctionnèrent dans l'Indre : le réseau Jade-Fitzroy et le réseau Goélette-Frégate. ...
wwwphp.ac-orleans-tours.fr/crdp/cddp36/ /rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=29&debut_page=40
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Though the Wikipedia online encyclopedia is not a reliable source for many topics, you may find its summary of the French Resistance a helpful introduction to the topic. Additional websites and a bibliography are included:
French Resistance