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This graduate course is intended as a practical introduction to interviewing for historical scholarship. I construe oral history in a broad sense as the use of interviews as a research method; it therefore spans the historical and human sciences as well as folklore and journalism. The overarching goal of the course is to provide you with some sense of professionalism as an oral-historian. We will briefly survey the history of the field and the range of approaches, stressing, theoretical issues of the relation of the scholar to his or her source, reliability, and interpretation. The emphasis, though will be on practice. Your main product in this course will be a thoroughly researched and professionally conducted and transcribed oral-history interview and a paper based on it.