Reception History:  http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/ReceptQuotes.htm 

"Reception history is the history of the meanings that have been imputed to historical events. It traces the different ways in which participants, observers, historians and other retrospective interpreters have attempted to make sense of events in the past, to make them meaningful for the present in which they live."

--Harold Marcuse, UC Santa Barbara  http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/

http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/hist133d/99/index.html

http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/hist133d/index.html

http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?ID=24085

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/oral/summary.html

Making Sense of Oral History: Questions to Ask (as you listen to/read stories)

This web site contains excellent resources about doing oral history interviews, creating videotapes and/or written narratives based on those interviews, and analyzing factors that influence how a person's story is recounted, listened to, and retold.