Fran Leeper Buss, Ph.D. (1942–2022), was an oral historian, educator, and author of Memory, Meaning and Resistance: Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins.Miriam Davidson is a journalist, author and editor whose works include Convictions of the Heart: Jim Corbett and the Sanctuary Movement (1988), Lives on the Line: Dispatches from the U.S.-Mexico Border (2000), and The Beloved Border: Humanity and Hope in a Contested Land (2021).

Renowned oral historian Fran Leeper Buss’s posthumous work, ably edited by her longtime friend Miriam Davidson, demonstrates the healing power of recounting trauma via oral history testimony for both teller and listener .. Leeper Buss affirms the power of oral testimony to create human connection and reminds readers that the voices of the silenced must be heard. Essential [for] all readers.

• Part One: MemoryChapter OneRedemption and Memory: DefinitionsChapter TwoThe Complex Topic of JusticeChapter ThreeBeginningsChapter FourDoing Oral HistoryPart Two: TraumaChapter FiveTrauma: DefinitionsChapter SixCultural Trauma: Witness and RecoveryChapter SevenCollective Trauma and Accompaniment of the TraumatizedPart Three: TestimonyChapter EightTestimony: DefinitionsChapter NineRelationships in TestimonyChapter TenTestifying, Silencing, and Using SymbolsPart Four: JusticeChapter ElevenJustice: DefinitionsChapter TwelveSeeking Justice through ResistanceChapter ThirteenAlliances and IntersectionalityChapter FourteenTeología de Conjunto

Fran Leeper Buss, Ph.D. (1942–2022), was an oral historian, educator, and author of Memory, Meaning and Resistance: Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins.Miriam Davidson is a journalist, author and editor whose works include Convictions of the Heart: Jim Corbett and the Sanctuary Movement (1988), Lives on the Line: Dispatches from the U.S.-Mexico Border (2000), and The Beloved Border: Humanity and Hope in a Contested Land (2021).

Renowned oral historian Fran Leeper Buss’s posthumous work, ably edited by her longtime friend Miriam Davidson, demonstrates the healing power of recounting trauma via oral history testimony for both teller and listener .. Leeper Buss affirms the power of oral testimony to create human connection and reminds readers that the voices of the silenced must be heard. Essential [for] all readers.

• Part One: MemoryChapter OneRedemption and Memory: DefinitionsChapter TwoThe Complex Topic of JusticeChapter ThreeBeginningsChapter FourDoing Oral HistoryPart Two: TraumaChapter FiveTrauma: DefinitionsChapter SixCultural Trauma: Witness and RecoveryChapter SevenCollective Trauma and Accompaniment of the TraumatizedPart Three: TestimonyChapter EightTestimony: DefinitionsChapter NineRelationships in TestimonyChapter TenTestifying, Silencing, and Using SymbolsPart Four: JusticeChapter ElevenJustice: DefinitionsChapter TwelveSeeking Justice through ResistanceChapter ThirteenAlliances and IntersectionalityChapter FourteenTeología de Conjunto