[jawns]

It bugs me, too. Nowadays, "An oral history of X" just means "We interviewed multiple people related to X, and here is a written article containing some of their quotes."

That's a lot different from what the Oral History Association describes in its principles and best practices, where the focus is on preserving sound recordings of interviews:

https://www.oralhistory.org/about/principles-and-practices-r...