Thanks Robin for sending these clips our way. You can access more of Terkel’s audio recordings over at the web site, The site notably features more interviews from the Hard Times recording sessions. (NOTE: The interviews start about 6 minutes into the recording.) No individual has popularized oral history more than Studs Terkel, author of such best-selling books as Hard Times (1970). You’ll also hear about the humiliations and acts of kindness that were part of everyday life. You’ll hear the voices of real people, recounting their daily experiences and remembering the race and class divisions that ran deep in America. social history was Studs Terkel, whose series of oral history books ranged across topics as diverse as the Great Depression of the 1930s (Hard Times). And, as you’ll see, these recordings make this transformational moment real in a way that few other historical sources can. ( Listen to the mp3 here.) The tapes would eventually provide the material for his book, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression. Not long after Studs Terkel, the historian of the everyman, died in October, This American Life featured a series of interviews that Terkel once conducted with Americans who lived through the Depression.
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