The Author analyses tropes of historical narration in academic lectures on history underlining the need and usefulness of research on this topic.

The major part of the paper is describing practice of using oral history method in the “Grodzka Gate – NN Theater” Center in Lublin. This cultural center started collecting testimonies in 1995 and formally created the Oral History Program in 1998. Educational and artistic exemplars include most of activities there: using oral history as a background in exhibitions, artistic celebrations and long-term programs, commemorations (about Righteous Among the Nations, Holocaust Survivors etc.).

The text presents the procedures and techniques of the research method aimed at “evoking the historical source”, which is understood as the researcher’s prepared and implemented scientifi-cally rigorous participation in the creation by a witness of history of such a reminiscence material that could be a carrier of information and would be subjected to rudimentary historical analysis. The text presents the defined assumptions and subsequent stages of the research procedure.

The article is devoted to changes inside the methodology of oral history at the beginning of the century. New technologies are present in every area of life. It seems that continuous progress is inevitable. It is more and more diffi cult to imagine functioning without cell phones or e-mail. Digital Revolution has also become a reality in these areas, which until now seemed to be impregnable bastions. Last 20 years has brought many changes in this fi eld, particularly in the United States. As a perfect example author sees the oral history, which since its beginning within the American research practice, has always followed the new technologies. American model of practicing oral history in the most visible way, is constantly modifi ed considering its methodology, which opens up new unexplored research capabilities, which become a model in worldwide practice and refl ection dedicated to this method.