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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 October 2009
1. For all prior quotes in this paragraph, see De Hart, Jane Sherron, “Oral Sources and Contemporary History: Dispelling Old Assumptions,” Journal of American History 80, no. 2 (September 1993): 582–95, 582.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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4. Ibid., 594.
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