Barbara W. Sommer has over twenty-five yearsa experience in the oral history field. She has been principal investigator and director of more than twenty major oral history projects and has taught at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska Wesleyan University, and Vermilion Community College. She is a founder of the Oral History Association of Minnesota and the Nebraska Foundation for the Preservation of Oral History, and is author of many key publications in the field, including, with Mary Kay Quinlan, The Oral History Manual (AltaMira Press 2002), Native American Veterans Oral History Ma...