"Over the last two decades, much has changed in the world of oral history, as digital audio and multimedia have opened up a wide range of possibilities for presentation of material. The doors of the archives have been blown from their hinges - and "access" has come to have a completely different meaning. Oral history research no longer necessarily entails traveling from one university or museum to another, reading typewritten transcripts ..."
Crawfish Bottom(Reprint) Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community (Kentucky Remembered) by DouglasA. Boyd, W. Fitzhugh Brundage Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2013 by University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-4433-7, ISBN: 0-8131-4433-7
"A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. "Craw's" reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary conditions made it a target for urban renewal projects that replaced the neighborhood with the city's Capital Plaza in the mid-1960s. Douglas A. Boyd's Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community traces the evolution of ..."
"Exploring the developments that have occurred in the practice of oral history since digital audio and video became viable, this book explores various groundbreaking projects in the history of digital oral history, distilling the insights of ..."
Crawfish Bottom(1st Edition) Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community (Kentucky Remembered) by DouglasA. Boyd, W. Fitzhugh Brundage Hardcover, 236 Pages, Published 2011 by University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-3408-6, ISBN: 0-8131-3408-0
"A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. "Craw's" reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary conditions made it a target for urban renewal projects that replaced the neighborhood with the city's Capital Plaza in the mid-1960s. Douglas A. Boyd's Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community traces the evolution of ..."
Kentucky Remembered an Oral History Ser.: Crawfish Bottom : Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community by DouglasA. Boyd Digital, 236 Pages, Published 2011 by University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-3409-3, ISBN: 0-8131-3409-9
"They'd take your beer and keep it, the damn rascals.32 James Ellis told a story
about a technique a local bootlegger used to avoid the attention of local law
enforcement: Ellis: There was a tree up there on Washington Street, and they had
a picture of that tree where a guy was bootlegging out of the tree. Selling, out of a
tree. Wallace: You mean, he kept his stash inside? Ellis: Yeah, in that tree, yes,
selling out of the tree. Th ..."
The Solitary Spy A Political Prisoner in Cold War Berlin by DouglasBoyd Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2017 by The History Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-6978-9, ISBN: 0-7509-6978-4
"Of the 2.3 million National Servicemen conscripted during the Cold War, 5,000 attended the secret Joint Services School for Linguists, tasked with supplying much-needed Russian speakers to the three services. The majority were in RAF uniform, as the Warsaw Pact saw air forces become the greatest danger to the West. After training, they were sent to the front lines in Germany and elsewhere to snoop on Russian aircraft in real time. Poste ..."
"" Published by the Kentucky Historical Society and distributed by the University Press of Kentucky Winona L. Fletcher, Senior Editor Sheila Mason Burton, Associate Editor James E. Wallace, Associate Editor Mary E. Winter, Photographs Editor Douglas A. Boyd, Oral History Editor John Hardin, Consultant With a preface by George C. Wolfe Community Memories is a fascinating look into life recalled by African Americans who consider Frankfort ..."
The Solitary SpyThe Solitary Spy A Political Prisoner in Cold War Berlin by DouglasBoyd Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2020 by The History Press Ltd, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-9391-3, ISBN: 0-7509-9391-X
"The Solitary Spy is a unique first-hand account of the terrifying experience of incarceration and interrogation in an East German political prison, from which Boyd eventually escaped, one step ahead of the KGB."
"Based on a system developed - after a detailed research programme - by the authors at the Ben-Tovim Children's Music Research Centre, this book is a guide to identifying the most rewarding instrument for individual children. The book contains new sections on organizing lessons and practice time."
"Based on a system developed - after a detailed research programme - by the authors at the Ben-Tovim Children's Music Research Centre, this book is a guide to identifying the most rewarding instrument for individual children. The book contains new sections on organizing lessons and practice time."
"Surveys the various types of musical instruments and discusses how to select an instrument suited to a child's individual personality and physical characteristics"
International and Comparative Broadcasting Ser. Broadcasting in the Arab World : A Survey of Radio and Television in the Middle East by DouglasA. Boyd 306 Pages, Published 1982 by Temple University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87722-237-8, ISBN: 0-87722-237-1
Solitary Spy A Political Prisoner in Cold War Berlin by DouglasBoyd 224 Pages, Published 2017 by The History Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-8290-0, ISBN: 0-7509-8290-X
"Later, he learned that this sentence was mild: a fellow Jehovah's Witness in
Leipzig was given a show trial in Berlin and sentenced to fifteen years'
imprisonment, of which six entire years were spent locked in the same cell.4
Walter Janke was the 32yearold head of the East Berlin publisher Aufbau. He
was arrested in December 1956. Three years after Khrushchev had denounced
Stalin's crimes at the XXth Party Congress, Janke was made ..."
Porch Talk A Conversation About Archaeology in the Texas Panhandle (Paperback) by John R. Erickson, Douglas K. Boyd Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2022 by Texas Tech University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-68283-122-9, ISBN: 1-68283-122-1
"Intended for middle readers, a rancher and an archaeologist are curious about the ancient peoples who lived on the Texas Panhandle."
Lionheart(Reprint) The True Story of England's Crusader King by DouglasBoyd Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2015 by The History Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-6364-0, ISBN: 0-7509-6364-6
"A revealing look at the dark side of England’s most celebrated monarch When people think of Richard the Lionheart they recall the scene at the end of every Robin Hood epic when he returns from the crusade to punish his treacherous brother John and the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham. In reality Richard detested England and the English, was deeply troubled by his own sexuality and was noted for greed, not generosity, and for murder rather ..."
The Other First World War(Reprint) The Blood-soaked Russian Fronts 1914-1922 by DouglasBoyd Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2017 by The History Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-6405-0, ISBN: 0-7509-6405-7
"Winston Churchill called it "the unknown war." Unlike the long stalemate of the Western Front, the conflict 1914–1918 between the Russian Empire and the Central Powers was a war of movement spanning a continent. As the whole fabric of society collapsed, German money brought the Bolsheviks to power in the greatest deniable dirty trick of the 20th century, after which Russia stopped fighting, eight months before the Western Front armistic ..."
April Queen(Reprint) Eleanor of Aquitaine by DouglasBoyd, Alison Weir Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2011 by The History Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7524-5912-7, ISBN: 0-7524-5912-0
"Recreating the turbulent life of one of the most exciting women in European medieval history, this biography reveals a peculiarly "modern" queen Eleanor of Aquitaine was the only person ever to sit on the thrones of both France and England. This account of the adventures of the extraordinary mother of Richard the Lionheart and King John takes us into the heart and mind of the woman who changed the shape of Europe for 300 years by marryi ..."