The Pontchartrain Park Pioneers and The Path to ‘Indexing for Use(s)’
The Pontchartrain Park Pioneers and The Path to ‘Indexing for Use(s)’

Summary/Abstract: I have been involved in oral history for many years, on many levels – as a practitioner, as a teacher, through publications, and ongoing involvement in the Oral History Association (US), the International Oral History Association, and the International Federation for Public History. My early work was gathered in a 1990 essay collection, almost all reflections on actual practice – A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. This has somehow survived as a landmark in the field – or at least its title has: as a kind of meme, Shared Authority seems to have struck a chord and helped crystallize a useful discourse driving both thought and practice over time.

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