Oral historians

African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891–1960)

French documentary filmmaker (1925–2018)

American author, historian and broadcaster (1912-2008)

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British writer and activist (1812–1887)

Palestinian writer, ethnographer and academic (born 1955)

Romanian sociologist, historian and psychologist (1907-1980)

Communist activist, historian and propagandist (1908-1958)

Romanian politician, historian, and novelist (1853-1926)

American feminist

Romanian stenographer, graphologist, writer (1877–1942)

Scottish Gaelic scholar and authority on Scottish Gaelic oral tradition

American journalist and historian (1938–2003)

British historian (1930–2012)

British historian (1952-2015)

Pakistani writer, oral historian and educator based in Canada

Taiwanese historian

Romanian lawyer (1885-1962)

Israeli historian

oral historian and centenarian, born a slave in Philadelphia

Moldavian chronicler

Palestinian historian