{"id":2536,"date":"2005-08-26T12:36:49","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T16:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2005-08-26T13:33:26","modified_gmt":"2005-08-26T17:33:26","slug":"oral-histories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2005\/08\/oral-histories\/","title":{"rendered":"Oral Histories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As valuable as the Clare Middlemiss papers were in writing <em>David O.  McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism,<\/em> they lacked the subjective, third dimension of the real people portrayed in the book.  In conducting some 200 oral histories, we found the third dimension we sought.  <!--more-->However, we were distressed to find that most of the people we interviewed&#8211;including several General Authorities&#8211;had never recorded their reminiscences of the McKay years.  The 6,000 or so pages of interview transcripts we produced thus take on added significance as a resource for future historians, providing them with information that otherwise would have been lost.  Indeed, nearly 50 of the people we interviewed have since died.<\/p>\n<p>Oral histories have value well beyond the writing of general Church history.  In the age of telephones and computers, much that might have been written down by past generations now disappears into cyberspace.  Each of us has family members, including ourselves, whose stories deserve to be preserved.  Digital voice recording technology now provides an easy, relatively inexpensive way to preserve those stories.  And while they will be invaluable to family members, they will also be a rich and desirable source of information for the Church Archives, for those willing to share the stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As valuable as the Clare Middlemiss papers were in writing David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, they lacked the subjective, third dimension of the real people portrayed in the book. In conducting some 200 oral histories, we found the third dimension we sought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}