Word: orality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Practically speaking, slave transactions provide solid genealogical connections. Slave names are recorded in wills, bills of sale and even dowries. Records from slave-ship cargo lists, captain's logbooks, ship route maps, white family histories and oral histories once available only in obscure books and dusty archives are available today on computer databases and widely disseminated via the Internet and on CD-ROMS...
TIME: Do you still think that oral...
...Young's case, because he had not been born in Armenia, his entire knowledge of his homeland depended on oral histories...
...Young's case, because he had not been born in Armenia, his entire knowledge of his homeland depended on oral histories...
...Chair of the Committee on Instruction John T. O'Keefe, who is also an instructor in History and Literature, explained that the early date is designed to allow seniors in the concentration to spend the latter half of their tutorials preparing for the end-of-year oral exams...