AMEWS members have long discussed the need to collect materials and memories of the organization’s early years for a historical narrative that would reflect the views and experiences of its diverse membership. Newsletters, committee meeting minutes, conference programs, and photographs collected and compiled over many years would be supplemented with oral histories that would capture members’ memories of its early and later years. Accordingly, in 2018, the AMEWS website posted the following announcement: “AMEWS has just launched a project to document its history from its early days to the present. To that end, we will be collecting and posting online statements from old and new members. Oral history is a way of telling history that is diverse and multilayered. The statements will be eclectic and varied and will we hope contribute to the wider history project.” It soon became clear that major questions needed to be asked. Who designed the questions? Who selected the interviewees and interviewers? How were the interviews structured? How would they be integrated into the wider history project? Oral histories, because of new technologies, have become easier than ever to record, preserve, transcribe, and share. Method, interpretation, and analysis however require renewed attention. This paper will discuss these complex issues and will contribute to our understanding of the uses and misuses of oral history.