CSPAN3 West Point Center For Oral History January 28, 2018
I have been the director since 2015, january. What is the value of an oral history . Well, for us we try to make it accessible to the cadets so they can use it for their research but all of our videos and interviews are open source so anyone in america can get online and look at our interviews and hopefully learn something about our history from them. As an historian what is the place oral history holds in the overall study of history . Oral historyies help add detail. If you are writing a paper or book about something and you find oral histories you can pull information from that to add a lit...