| LII.org (Home) | About LII IPL.org Suggest a Site Subscribe to New This Week Contact |
|
|
 |
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|
|||
Oral Histories
 Websites presented in alphabetical order ACT-UP Oral History Project 
 The digital exhibit space for "a collection of interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York." Features interview transcripts, videos, tributes, forums, and more. Each text transcript is accompanied by a separate index. From MIX (the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival), with funding from the Ford Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts. Project leaders are author Sarah Schulman and filmmaker Jim Hubbard. http://www.actuporalhistory.org/ Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, Film: Genres & Themes, History, Infectious Diseases, Nonfiction by Genre, Women's Health Last updated Jun 10, 2004 Alaska's Digital Archive
"Alaska's Digital Archive presents a wealth of historical photographs, oral histories, moving images, documents, and other materials from libraries, museums, and institutions" across the state of Alaska. Searchable, or browsable by collection. A collaborative effort of libraries at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of Alaska Anchorage, and the Alaska State Library in Juneau. http://vilda.alaska.edu Topics: Archives, Libraries & Archives by Type, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, U.S. History By Place Last updated Oct 19, 2004 American Highway Project
Through photography and oral history interviews, this project documents the disappearing road culture of America. The photographs feature roadside landmarks such as motels, gas stations, theaters, and other oddities found along our highways. Road warriors will love the collection of links that lead them to old billboards, highways, diners, tourist attractions, drive-in theaters, road maps, and other gems of the American road. http://www.highwayproject.org/ Topics: Architecture, Film, Movies, & Video, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections Last updated Oct 30, 2005 American Roots Music
Explore roots music: blues, country, gospel, bluegrass, cajun, zydeco, tejano, and Native American music. This is a companion site to the four-part PBS series, with each part individually summarized. Included are Oral Histories of some of the artists, a discography for each episode, and histories of the songs and instruments heard in the programs. Additionally, there are related links and lesson plans. http://www.pbs.org/americanrootsmusic/ Topics: Lesson Plans, Music, Musical Genres, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Dec 20, 2001 Amistad Research Center
This archive, located on the campus of Tulane University in New Orleans, contains historical material on African Americans and other ethnic groups, including "manuscripts, photographs, oral histories, books, periodicals and works of art." The site includes an overview of the collection, accounts of the Amistad slave revolt, and links to related sites. http://www.amistadresearchcenter.org/ Topics: Black Resources, Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Sep 4, 2009 Anne T. Kent California Room
The Marin County Free Library's digital historical archive contains oral history transcripts of prominent Marin County residents; digitized photo albums of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Quentin State Prison, the Mt. Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railroad, and other subjects; and digitized copies of brochures, posters, and other Marin County, California, ephemera. Also includes a bibliography of resources on Frank Lloyd Wright, designer of the Marin County Civic Center (which houses the California Room). http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/lb/main/crm/kentmain.html Topics: Nonfiction by Genre, Notable People, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife Last updated Oct 15, 2003 Archivos Virtuales: Papers of Latino & Latin American Artists
This site "focuses on access to information about the [Smithsonian] Archives of American Art's ... papers of and about Latino and Latin American artists." A guide to the collections includes brief descriptions, some with links to online materials. The site also features oral history interview transcripts (some in Spanish) and finding aids for some of the collections. Browsable and searchable. http://www.aaa.si.edu/guides/site-archivos/ Topics: Art by Region, Artists, Libraries & Archives by Type, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Jun 6, 2007 Basque Oral History Project
Audio interviews with Basque people in the American West, accompanied by brief text biographies. Browsable by last name. Presented online by the Basque Museum of Boise, Idaho through a grant provided by the Basque government. (The audio files did not play in Netscape.) http://www.basquemuseum.com/oralhistory/ Topics: History, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Jun 13, 2004 Beauty and Darkness - Cambodia: The Odyssey of the Khmer People
Cambodia, also known as Kampuchea, is the focus of this Web site which primarily explores, through essays, documents, oral histories and other links, the history of the Khmer Rouge regime and the genocide suffered by the Khmer people. A number of links to media sites are included, as well as photographs, refugee information, and other numerous links to sites about Cambodian art, culture, travel, politics and human rights. http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/ Topics: History, History By Place, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Jun 2, 2001 The Berlin Airlift
Devoted to the post-World War II Berlin airlift (1948-49), during which "the Truman administration reacted with a continual daily airlift which brought much needed food and supplies into the city of West Berlin." Includes background information about the event, memos, reports, telegrams, photographs, oral histories, and more. From the Harry S. Truman Presidential Museum and Library. http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/berlin_airlift/large/ Topics: History, History By Place, Military, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional, Presidents by Name, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Mar 1, 2008 Black Oral History Collection
Features interviews with "African American pioneers and their descendants throughout Washington [state], Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, from 1972-1974." Topics discussed "include early black settlers, job opportunities, social life and community, living patterns, black churches, and black political involvement from the late 1800s through 1974." Includes sound files and descriptive records. Browsable and searchable. From Washington State University Libraries. http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xblackoralhistory.html Topics: Black Resources, History, Nonfiction by Genre, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Jan 4, 2006 British Library: Archival Sound Recordings
This site from the British Museum contains "over 1,500 recordings of UK dialects, British wildlife and ethnographic wax cylinders. ... The over 200 rare wax cylinder recordings from the World and Traditional Music collections ... [feature] music, songs and speech from around the world, captured on the first portable recording machines between 1898 and 1915." http://sounds.bl.uk/ Topics: Music, Musical Genres, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Jan 16, 2009 California Explores the Ocean: San Diego Historical Society - Oral Histories
A searchable collection of over 50 transcribed interviews with "fishermen, cannery workers, fishing boat owners and captains, fishmongers, and others involved in commercial fishing, sport fishing, and boat building. Many belonged to immigrant Italian and Portuguese families that settled in San Diego from around 1910 to 1930." More than half of the interviews feature audio. A collaboration of the San Diego Historical Society and the University of California, San Diego. http://ceo.ucsd.edu/photographs/sdhs/oral/ Topics: Agriculture, History, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Aug 4, 2003 Center for Oral History: University of Hawai'i at Manoa
This site "preserves the recollections of Hawai'i's people through oral interviews and disseminates oral history transcripts to researchers, students, and the general community." Find brief histories of communities, ethnic groups, government, historical events, individual lives, and occupations. Some transcripts include sound files. http://www2.soc.hawaii.edu/css/dept/oral_hist/ Topics: History, Nonfiction by Genre, U.S. History By Place Last updated Jul 30, 2003 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): History
Overview of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, which were signed into law on July 30, 1965. On December 8, 2003, the Medicare Modernization Act, or MMA, was passed to include a prescription drug benefit to Medicare. Site features a timeline of milestones, transcripts of oral history interviews with important figures in the history of CMS programs, materials from the 30th and 35th anniversaries of CMS, and related information. http://www.cms.hhs.gov/History/ Topics: Federal (U.S.) Government, Health, Holidays and Observances Individually, Nonfiction by Genre, Senior Health, Seniors Last updated Feb 19, 2009 Centropa: Jewish Heritage in Central and Eastern Europe
An online collection of Central and Eastern Europe "pre (and post)-Holocaust family photographs and oral histories," Assembled by an "international team of historians, filmmakers, web designers, journalists, educators, photographers and Jewish community activists," these historical and contemporary materials may be accessed by subject, theme, country, and family. The site also has columns featuring books, travel, and food. http://centropa.org/ Topics: History, History By Place, Judaism, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Recipes by Region, Recipes by Region: United States, Regions of the World Last updated Mar 11, 2004 Charles Babbage Institute (CBI)
This archive and research center, located at the University of Minnesota, is "dedicated to promoting study of the history of information technology and information processing and their impact on society." The site contains searchable catalogs of CBI collections of oral histories, photographs, manuscripts, and other materials; bibliographies; links to related resources; online exhibits; and more. http://www.cbi.umn.edu/ Topics: Computers, Computers, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Jan 17, 2006 Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
This site is a "fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare and unique library and archival resources on race relations in Mississippi." The "Manuscripts and Photographs" section provides browsable access to selected primary source material. Also includes a short historical essay and timeline back to 1900, oral history transcripts, and links to related sites. From the McCain Library and Archives, University of Southern Mississippi. http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/spcol/crda/ Topics: Black Resources, Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, Social Issues, United States History Last updated Jul 30, 2008 Civil Rights Oral History Interviews
This site consists of a series of interviews with people who have "ties to both the civil rights movement and to Spokane [Washington state]." Conducted by a reporter for the Spokesman-Review, the interviews were used to create "Through Spokane's Eyes: Moments in Black History," a series of articles published in February 2001. The site includes photographs, brief descriptions of the topics covered, and audio files of the interviews. Searchable. From Washington State University. http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xcivilrights.html Topics: Black Resources, Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, History, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Jan 21, 2004 Complete Coverage: The 9/11 Records
Under court order, "the city of New York [in August 2005] opened part of its archive of records from Sept. 11, releasing a digital avalanche of oral histories, dispatchers' tapes and phone logs. ... For the first time, about 200 accounts of emergency medical technicians, paramedics and their supervisors were made public." This site provides the unedited audio dispatches and oral histories of dispatch transmissions, along with articles and commentary. From the New York Times; some sections require free registration. http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2005/11/30/nyregion/nyregionspecial3/index.html Topics: History, Nonfiction by Genre, September 11 & Beyond Last updated Nov 7, 2007 The Computerworld Honors Program
The program seeks "to identify and record the accomplishments of the men and women, organizations and institutions that are creating the global best practices in leading the world's ongoing IT revolution." The website includes oral histories, video biographies, and case studies of laureates. http://www.cwhonors.org/ Topics: Jobs & Work, Librarianship, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Feb 5, 2008 Days of Infamy: December 7 and 9/11
This site compares and contrasts two very similar projects separated by 60 years: audio interviews with "ordinary Americans," made in the days immediately following the attack on Pearl Harbor and the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Find interviews and transcripts, and discussions with "prominent, thoughtful Americans who've lived through both attacks," such as musician Pete Seeger and U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye. A co-production of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and American RadioWorks. http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/daysofinfamy/ Topics: Nonfiction by Genre, September 11 & Beyond, U.S. History By Place, World War II Last updated Sep 6, 2006 Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project
With the goal of documenting oral histories of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II, the site features essays on the causes of the incarceration along with selected oral history videos. Includes lesson plans, a glossary, a timeline, a bilingual (English and Japanese) exhibition, oral history archives (free registration required), and related links. From Densho, an organization whose Japanese name means "to pass on to the next generation." http://www.densho.org Topics: History, Lesson Plans, Nonfiction by Genre, United States History, World War II Last updated Aug 30, 2004 The Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement
This "collection consists of more than 100 oral histories with leaders ... [of this] movement from the 1960s onward and an extensive archive of personal papers of activists and records of key organizations." The site features the text and audio clips of oral histories, a timeline (1880-1996), and "some suggested themes and research topics ... with links to primary sources." From the Bancroft Library and its Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley. http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm/ Topics: Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, Disabilities, Nonfiction by Genre, Social Issues Last updated Aug 14, 2006 DOE Openness: Human Radiation Experiments
"The Office of Human Radiation Experiments, established in March 1994, leads the Department of Energy's efforts to tell the agency's Cold War story of radiation research using human subjects." Includes a list of experiments, oral histories by the scientists and technicians involved, declassified documents, key reports, and more. Also features film clips and photographs. http://www.hss.energy.gov/healthsafety/ohre/ Topics: Diseases & Conditions, Nonfiction by Genre, Science Last updated Mar 25, 2007 Duluth Lynchings Online Resource: Historical Documents Relating to the Tragic Events of June 15, 1920
This digital collection provides access "to a variety of primary source materials relating to the 1920 lynching of three young black men--Isaac McGhie, Elias Clayton, and Elmer Jackson--in Duluth, Minnesota." It includes background information on the event, newspaper accounts, legal documents, photographs, oral histories, a timeline, and recommended additional online and print resources. Searchable. From the Minnesota Historical Society. http://collections.mnhs.org/duluthlynchings/ Topics: Black Resources, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Social Issues, U.S. History By Place Last updated Jan 26, 2005 The Dust Bowl
An exhibit "featuring Documentary Photographs from the Farm Security Administration file and Companion Photographs taken in the late 1970s by Bill Ganzel," with "texts adapted from oral history interviews with Dust Bowl Survivors." Includes learning activities for students and lesson guides for teachers. http://www.humanities-interactive.org/texas/dustbowl/ Topics: Agriculture, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, United States History, Weather Last updated Dec 19, 2008 The eLibrary Oral History Collection: Bioscience and Biotechnology
This collection is organized thematically by floor (bioscience, biotechnology, Genentech, Amgen, Chiron, medical physics) and highlights individuals involved in bioscience and biotechnology. Three floors are dedicated to oral histories from health professionals (scientists, physicians, nurses) describing the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco during 1981-1984. From the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/projects/biosci/projects_a.html Topics: Infectious Diseases, Nonfiction by Genre, Notable People, Science, Technology Last updated Jul 6, 2006 The Forest History Society
The purpose of this organization is to explore the "history of interactions between people, forests, and their related resources - timber, water, soil, forage, fish and wildlife, recreation, and scenic or spiritual values. The focus is from a North American perspective." The site features photographs (located in "Research Center"), a list of oral histories, and bibliographies. Also includes teaching materials and a history of the U.S. Forest Service. Searchable. Affiliated with Duke University. http://www.foresthistory.org/ Topics: Agriculture, Environment, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Photograph Collections: Regional, Plants, Regions of the World Last updated Jan 15, 2007 Genealogy
Software survey, chat, site reviews, book reviews, genealogy for children and teens, genealogy by e-mail, free newsletter, and links to resources about adoption, African Americans, censuses, oral history, forms, Europeans, publications, scrapbooking, heraldry, surnames, and more. http://genealogy.about.com/ Topics: Black Resources, Crafts, Families, History, Hobbies, Nonfiction by Genre, People Last updated Jan 10, 2004 Go For Broke Educational Foundation
The goal of this organization is "to preserve the 'American story' of the Japanese American World War II veterans." The site features clips from over 100 oral histories, a timeline, maps, photographs, lesson plans, and material for children as well as the interactive "Virtual Veteran Experience" that chronicles the lives of five veterans. Also includes links to related sites. Requires free registration to view complete oral histories. Searchable. http://www.goforbroke.org/ Topics: Communities & Groups, Lesson Plans, Military, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, World War II Last updated Mar 31, 2004 Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
This complex site links visitors to many aspects of Truman's presidency and life. Find his daily calendar of presidential appointments, pictures from his military and personal life, analyses of his important decisions, oral histories, online documents, descriptions of archival collections, and exhibits. Includes educational resources and information on the Korean War and World War II. Searchable. http://www.trumanlibrary.org/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type, Museums by Place: United States, Nonfiction by Genre, Presidents by Name, The United States Presidency Last updated Nov 20, 2008 HistoricalVoices.org
Historical Voices is creating "a significant...online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century." Galleries lists their eclectic collection of databases and links. Following another goal of the project, there is also research on "sound digitization, system architecture, federated searching, metadata implementations, online delivery, and multimedia education." http://www.historicalvoices.org/ Topics: Government, History, Internet, Libraries & Archives by Type, Music, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Oct 3, 2002 The History of Social Security
"We present here both the institutional history of the Social Security Administration and the history of the Social Security program itself." Features presidential statements, a historical chronology of social insurance, audio clips of Lyndon Johnson's and John F. Kennedy's telephone conversations, oral histories, speech transcripts, legislative history, video clips, puzzles and quizzes, and other documents and research materials. From the Social Security Administration (SSA). Note: some of the audio files do not play. http://www.ssa.gov/history/ Topics: Disabilities, Federal (U.S.) Government, Investing, Mysteries and More, Nonfiction by Genre, Presidents by Name, Seniors, The United States Presidency Last updated Feb 11, 2004 IEEE History Center
"The IEEE History Center is determined to preserve as source material for the future historians of technology the personal memories of pioneering electrical and computer engineers, the technologists who transformed the world in the 20th century. ... Most of the Center's resources are available on-line at this site." Includes articles, hundreds of oral histories, a bibliography, FAQs, and more. From the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/ Topics: Electrical Energy, Nonfiction by Genre, Science, Technology Last updated Nov 11, 2006 An Incomplete History of Slam: A Biography of an Evolving Poetry Movement
A discussion of the people, places, and events in the development and spread of slam poetry and slam poetry contests, from the beginning in Chicago in the 1970s. http://www.e-poets.net/library/slam/ Topics: Nonfiction by Genre, Poetry Last updated Sep 17, 2002 IWM [Imperial War Museum] Collections Online
Database of film and video material, sound recordings and oral histories, documents, art, and other items from the expanding Imperial War Museum (London, England) collections, which cover "all aspects of twentieth century conflict." Themes include war on land, at sea, and in the air; war and peace; prisoners; civilians; the Commonwealth; truth and propaganda; and burial and remembrance. http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/ Topics: History, History By Place, International Governments, Military, Museums, Museums by Place, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Mar 28, 2006 JARDA: Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives
"Documenting the experience of Japanese Americans in World War II internment camps," this searchable site provides access to tens of thousands of images and pages of electronic transcriptions. Includes photographs, manuscripts, paintings, drawings, letters, oral histories, and documents. Also features an overview essay about Japanese American relocation. From the California Digital Library. http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/jarda/ Topics: Correspondence, History, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, World War II Last updated Mar 26, 2007 The Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
This site reveals a little-known aspect of Holocaust history by telling the story of Jews who escaped from the ghettos, became partisans, and fought the Nazis. The foundation is collecting archival material and oral histories from former partisans and has produced a documentary film about them. http://www.jewishpartisans.org/ Topics: History, Judaism, Nonfiction by Genre, World War II Last updated May 1, 2002 Kentuckiana Digital Library
Managed by the University of Kentucky, this project provides access to digital materials from Kentucky libraries, archives, historical societies, and museums. Browse by county or by subject to find digitized photographs, texts, and audio. Includes lists of full-text finding aids, journals, documents, and oral histories, and descriptions of collections with digital content. Also features a Kentucky timeline through 1997. http://kdl.kyvl.org Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type, Nonfiction by Genre, U.S. History By Place Last updated Aug 21, 2006 Korea + 50: No Longer Forgotten
"This page is a joint project between the Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Libraries developed to provide access to Korean War materials related to the two administrations occupying the White House during that period." Find exhibits, photographs, primary sources, timelines, documents, oral histories, and much more. http://www.trumanlibrary.org/korea/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type, Nonfiction by Genre, Presidents by Name, The United States Presidency, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jul 27, 2004 Korea: The Unfinished War
"To fully grasp the ongoing tensions between the United States and North Korea, it is important to understand the war that ended fifty years ago." This companion to an American RadioWorks program from July 2003 includes audio clips and transcripts, oral histories, maps, related links, and commentary from reporters, historians, and scholars. Also features illustrated essays about the effect of the Korean War on the Cold War and integration in the armed forces. http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/korea/ Topics: History, International Governments, Nonfiction by Genre, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Feb 24, 2005 Living Voices/Voces Vivas
This Web site from the Smithsonian features audio profiles of Native Americans and Native Hawaiians. "People of many ages, traditions and perspectives tell their own stories, reflecting the wide range of contemporary Native experience in Canada, Mexico, Panama, and the U.S." Files on this site are in English (there is also a limited Spanish version of the site); the foreign-language profiles may be ordered separately on CD. http://www.nmai.si.edu/livingvoices/ Topics: History, Internet, Native Americans, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Aug 30, 2002 Looking Back: 9/11 Across America
A 37-minute "acoustic exhibition reflecting Americans' thoughts and emotions in the immediate aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001," compiled from 500 hours of audio recordings collected the day after the terrorist attacks by the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress. Includes a list of interview subjects. From the Center for Documentary Studies, an affiliate of Duke University. http://cds.aas.duke.edu/exhibits/lookingback911.html Topics: Nonfiction by Genre, September 11 & Beyond Last updated Sep 1, 2005 Louisiana Digital Library
Presents several collections, most containing images related to Louisiana. Includes architectural drawings, artwork, historical photographs and stereographs, maps associated with the Louisiana Purchase and the French colonization of the state, oral histories, and climate records. Searchable and browsable. From Louisiana State University. http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/ Topics: Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, U.S. History By Place Last updated May 7, 2006 Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum
This official site contains a photo archive of LBJ and the significant figures in his administration, a list of museum exhibits, a research section with selected speeches and biographical information, and an archive that includes oral history transcripts and information on the recordings Johnson taped of his telephone conversations while in office. Includes links to related sites. Searchable. http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/ Topics: Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, Presidents by Name, The United States Presidency Last updated Nov 19, 2008 The National Steinbeck Center
This center is home to a museum and library devoted to John Steinbeck, Nobel Prize for Literature winner and Pulitzer Prize winner. The collections include books by and about him, local and oral history, audio-visual materials, artwork, and theses. There are chronologies covering his family, awards received, and connection with Salinas. Located in the Salinas Valley, Steinbeck's childhood home, the Center sponsors a writing contest, festival, and educational programs. http://www.steinbeck.org/ Topics: Authors by Region: United States, Literary Movements and Periods, Nonfiction by Genre, Notable People Last updated Nov 11, 2009 National Story Project with Paul Auster
The monthly broadcast of the National Story Project was born when writer Paul Auster returned to National Public Radio's Weekend All Things Considered to focus on telling not just his own stories, but also those of listeners. Read or listen to stories that have aired since November 1999. Stories may be submitted to the Project by post or by e-mail. http://www.npr.org/programs/watc/features/1999/991002.storyproject.html Topics: History, Nonfiction by Genre, Society & Social Science, United States History Last updated Nov 10, 2004 Nordic Heritage Museum
Seattle's "Nordic Heritage Museum is the only museum in the United States to honor the legacy of immigrants from the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden." This site highlights the museum’s permanent collections and also offers information on current gallery shows, children's events, an oral history project, the museum's Gordon Tracie Music Library, and museum-sponsored language and craft schools. http://www.nordicmuseum.org/ Topics: Museums, Museums by Place: United States, Nonfiction by Genre, U.S. History By Place Last updated Sep 2, 2006 Oral Histories in the Perry Library: Interview with Dorothy Pierce Ladd
In a 1999 interview, Dorothy Pierce Ladd describes her experiences working as the first librarian for the Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary (currently Old Dominion University) during the late 1930s and 1940s. From the Old Dominion University Libraries in Norfolk, Va. Note: Audio clip of interview doesn't work. http://www.lib.odu.edu/special/oralhistory/womenhistory/dladdtranscript.html Topics: Librarianship, Nonfiction by Genre, Notable People, Social Science Last updated Oct 2, 2004 Oral History: Recording and Preserving the Voices of Washington's Government
The website for a program that records, transcribes, and publishes "the recollections of legislators, state officials and citizens who have shaped Washington State's political history." Provides the texts of oral histories published to date, information about the program, links to legislative and oral history resources, and advice for creating oral history materials for exhibits and educational programs. Searchable. From the Washington Secretary of State. http://www.secstate.wa.gov/legacyproject// Topics: History, Nonfiction by Genre, U.S. History By Place Last updated Sep 9, 2008 Oral History: University of California, Riverside
Transcripts, audio, and video clips of over 30 oral histories of UC Riverside professors, administrators, and others associated with the university. Includes a photograph of each person interviewed. From the University of California, Riverside. http://www.ucrhistory.ucr.edu/ Topics: History, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Aug 15, 2003 The Pill
An exploration of the history and the physiological and social effects of the pill for women approved by the FDA as an oral contraceptive in 1960. Includes interviews on video, samples of birth control pill package design, andn a teacher's guide. This site is designed to supplement a PBS film presented as part of their "American Experience" television series. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/ Topics: Drugs, Drugs & Medications by Type, Families, Health, History, Nonfiction by Genre, Reproductive and Sexual Health, Women's Health Last updated Feb 26, 2005 PSI: Poetry Slam Inc.
Information, news, and links about poetry slams--events "in which poets perform their work and are judged by members of the audience." Includes a FAQ with rules, definitions, and organizational tips; a directory of slam venues; a press section with a timeline and history of the slam movement; and a few links to other slam resources. http://www.poetryslam.com/ Topics: Nonfiction by Genre, Poetry Last updated Sep 17, 2002 Remembering the Flint Sit-Down Strike, 1936-1937
This interactive exhibit explores the 1936-37 strike at General Motors in Flint, Mich., through numerous oral histories, an audio timeline, a map of the strike location, and a narrated slideshow. Searchable. From Michigan State University, "created with support from the National Science Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities." http://www.historicalvoices.org/flint/ Topics: Activism, Business, Labor, Nonfiction by Genre, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Jul 21, 2006 Reminiscence: A Family History Questionnaire
"The purpose of this questionnaire is to provide you with a mind jogger to help you in making notes on your own life or to guide you in recording the life experiences of another member of your family. The information you record ... will serve as a means of conveying a picture of what your life has been like and a sense of what has been important to you." From the Texas Cooperative Extension, Texas A&M University System. http://fcs.tamu.edu/families/aging/reminiscence/family_history_questionnaire.php Topics: Nonfiction by Genre, Senior Health Last updated Jan 27, 2005 The Rutgers Oral History Archives: World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Cold War
This is "an enterprise to record the personal experiences of the men and women who served on the homefront and overseas. It is based on in-depth interviews of individuals who lived through these conflicts." This project has hundreds of oral history interviews, a photo gallery and a list, with illustrations, of shoulder patches and badges of honor. http://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/ Topics: History, Libraries & Archives by Type, Military, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History Last updated May 29, 2006 September 11, 2001, Documentary Project
This "presentation of almost 200 audio and video interviews, 45 graphic items, and 21 written narratives" presents "heartfelt reactions, eyewitness accounts, and diverse opinions of Americans and others in the months that followed the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93." From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/911_archive/ Topics: Film: Genres & Themes, History, Nonfiction by Genre, September 11 & Beyond Last updated Aug 12, 2005 Slavonic Web
This site is for the Slavonic Cultural Center, which traces its roots back to "the Slavonic Mutual and Benevolent Society [which] was founded in San Francisco in 1857 by Slavic immigrants, primarily from the region of present day Croatia." The site features a virtual museum of historical photos and paintings, selections from oral histories, and audio clips of Slavonic music (such as music played on the tamburitza). http://www.slavonicweb.org Topics: Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Feb 19, 2005 Southern Foodways Alliance (SFA)
"The mission of the SFA is to celebrate, preserve, promote, and nurture the traditional and developing diverse food cultures of the American South." The site features transcribed and illustrated oral histories on topics such as Greeks in Birmingham, Alabama, barbecue restaurants, articles about Southern cooking, cookbook reviews, and more. Also find competitions (such as the 2004 deviled-egg contest), the Ruth Fertel Keeper of the Flame Award, forums, and related links. http://www.southernfoodways.com/ Topics: History, Nonfiction by Genre, Recipes & Food Preparation, Recipes by Region, Recipes by Region: United States, The Olympic Games Last updated Sep 15, 2005 Southwest Jewish Archives
"Dedicated to collecting and recording the dramatic history of pioneer Jews in the Desert Southwest, covering Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas," including the Crypto-Jews who trace "their family histories back to Spain and Portugal." Features materials on Jewish pioneers, railroad builders, ranchers, and merchants; synagogues and religious objects; Crypto-Jews; finding aids for the archive's collections; and transcripts of over 20 oral histories. Includes photographs. From the University of Arizona. http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/bloom/ Topics: History, History By Place, Judaism, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Dec 24, 2004 StoryCorps
Information about "a national project to instruct and inspire people to record each others' stories in sound." Features audio clips of stories recorded at New York City's Grand Central Station, as well as links to radio broadcasts of interviews. Also includes information about the StoryBooths, which will be built across the country for recording oral histories to be housed at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. http://www.storycorps.org/ Topics: History, Internet, Music, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Sep 22, 2009 Studs Terkel: Conversations with America
Includes audio recordings of interviews Studs Terkel -- oral historian, playwright, radio news commentator, sportscaster, film narrator, jazz columnist, disc jockey, and music festival host -- did for his books and a multimedia interview of Terkel himself (who died in October 2008). Provides a model for those interested in the methods of oral history. Searchable. From the Chicago Historical Society. http://www.studsterkel.org/ Topics: History, Musical Genres, Nonfiction by Genre, United States History Last updated Nov 6, 2008 Talking History: Aural History Productions
This center aims to "provide teachers, students, researchers, and the general public with as broad and outstanding collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources." Offers a weekly Internet broadcast (focusing on all aspects of history) and program archives (browsable by date, and searchable). From the University at Albany, State University of New York. http://www.talkinghistory.org/ Topics: History, Internet, Media, Music, Nonfiction by Genre, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Jan 1, 2004 Telling Their Stories: Oral History Archives Project
High school students from the Urban School of San Francisco conducted and transcribed interviews and created audio and video files about Holocaust survivors, U.S. soldiers who helped liberate concentration camp prisoners, and Japanese Americans held in internment camps in World War II. Includes links to related sites. http://www.tellingstories.org/ Topics: History, Judaism, Nonfiction by Genre, United States History, World War II Last updated Jun 1, 2006 Theresa Pollak
Features a chronology, a curriculum vitae, an oral history from 1975, and images of works of painter and teacher Theresa Pollak, "one of Virginia's best-known artists." Also includes a description of the Theresa Pollak Papers collection at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), where she founded its School of the Arts. From the Department of Special Collections and Archives, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries. http://www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/speccoll/exhibit/pollak01.html Topics: Artists, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Dec 15, 2003 Traders: Voices from the Trading Post
With funding from the now-disbanded United Indian Traders Association (UITA), the University of Northern Arizona's library is conducting oral history interviews with over fifty Indian traders of the southwest United States. More than just a collection of interviews, this site also contains photographic slide shows of traders and trading posts from 1860-1999. Additionally, the site contains interview excerpts about livestock, weaving, jewelry, pinon nuts, medicine men, and pawn. Focus is primarily on the Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni reservations of Arizona, New Mexico, and southern Utah and Colorado. A fascinating and historically important project. http://www.nau.edu/library/speccoll/exhibits/traders/ Topics: Native Americans, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, United States History Last updated Mar 16, 2006 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
On March 25, 1911, a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City killed 146 factory workers. This site, prepared "specifically to assist high school students in writing research papers from primary sources," documents this historic disaster and its aftermath with a collection of photographs, oral histories, political cartoons, audio survivor interviews, copies of original documents, articles, bibliography, and links to related online resources. http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/ Topics: Labor, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Nov 17, 2004 U.S. Army Center of Military History
Articles, statistics, artwork, lineage and honors programs, and "How-To" guides for such areas as oral history, organizational and unit history, and other topics about U.S. Army history. The Center's Library online catalog is available. http://www.history.army.mil/ Topics: History, Military, Nonfiction by Genre, Statistics, United States History Last updated Jul 2, 2008 University of California History Digital Archives: Oral Histories
Provides access to "digital transcripts of formal oral history interviews" conducted by the UC Berkeley Regional Oral History Office and the UC Santa Cruz Regional History Project. Includes librarians, teachers, administrators, and chancellors. From the University of California History Digital Archives, University of California, Berkeley. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/uchistory/archives_exhibits/histories_interviews/oral_histories/ Topics: History, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Aug 23, 2003 Veterans History Project
This site describes a project to collect "oral history interviews, memoirs, letters, diaries, photographs, and other original materials from veterans of World Wars I and II, and the Korean, Vietnam, and Persian Gulf Wars and the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts (2001-present)." Includes guidelines for participating in the project, including tips for interviewing veterans and writing memoirs. From the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/vets/ Topics: Communities & Groups, History, Military, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional, United States History Last updated Apr 3, 2005 The Vietnam Project
"In addition to its mission of collecting materials concerning Vietnam, the Vietnam War, and Southeast Asia, the Vietnam Archive currently administers two projects, the Oral History Project and the Virtual Vietnam Archive." The site features oral histories, documents (such as official military records) and photographs. Also includes operations and acronyms databases. Searchable. From Texas Tech University. Note: Some material not available online due to copyright/donor restrictions. http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/ Topics: Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Mar 17, 2004 Virtual Museum & Archive of the SEC and Securities History
"This virtual museum and archive preserves and shares the history of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and of the securities industry from 1929 to the present. It includes a wide range of primary materials, including a timeline, papers, photos, oral histories and original programs broadcast from this site." Include letters, speeches, manuals, annual reports, and many other documents. http://www.sechistorical.org/ Topics: Correspondence, Government, Government, Industries, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Jul 5, 2005 Voices of World War II: Experiences From the Front and at Home
This site is "based on 100 rare and fragile transcription discs ... supplemented by manuscript materials, including still images, moving images, and oral histories, to showcase how WWII was experienced in Kansas City." Included are audio files of speeches by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, songs, news from both the Pacific and European fronts, a bibliography, and more. From the Miller Nichols Library at the University of Kansas, Kansas City. http://www.umkc.edu/lib/spec-col/ww2/main.htm Topics: Nonfiction by Genre, Presidents by Name, The United States Presidency, World War II Last updated Jan 7, 2008 Wessels Living History Farm
This site features information about farming practices in York County, Nebraska, during the 1920s and 1930s. Topics include machines, crops, making money, farm life, pests and weeds, and water. Also includes information about the current living history center, images of the farm throughout the year, video clips of oral histories, and lesson plans. Searchable. http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/ Topics: Agriculture, Lesson Plans, Nonfiction by Genre, U.S. History By Place Last updated Mar 29, 2004 What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?: An Oral History of Rhode Island Women During World War II
The heart of the site is the collection of nearly 30 oral histories. In addition, there is general information on World War II and women's parts in it: a glossary, a timeline, essays, and a bibliography of works cited. Created by students at South Kingstown (Rhode Island) High School; the project was developed by Linda P. Wood, an oral historian and the school's librarian. http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html Topics: History, Nonfiction by Genre, Notable People: Women, Women, World War II Last updated Feb 29, 2004 The Whole World Was Watching: An Oral History of 1968
A view of 1968, created thirty years later by students at South Kingston (RI) High School through interviews with Rhode Islanders. Find transcripts, audio, and edited stories about topics such as the Vietnam War, civil rights, and the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. Also find essays, a timeline of events, a glossary, and a bibliography. A joint product between the high school and Brown University. http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/ Topics: Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Feb 1, 2006 Wind River Historical Center
"The Wind River Historical Center and its partner in educational programming, The Lucius Burch Center for Western Tradition, foster understanding and appreciation for the natural history and cultural landscape of the Greater Yellowstone Region." Browse the exhibits and archives for documents, images, and oral histories relating to the native tribes and early settlers in the area. Searchable. This organization is located in Dubois, Wyoming. http://www.windriverhistory.org Topics: Native Americans, Nonfiction by Genre, United States History Last updated Dec 1, 2004 Women and Timber: The Pacific Northwest Logging Community, 1920-1998
This site describes an oral history project that explores "women's roles as key participants in the development and maintenance of the logging community and culture that has, in many ways, helped define Pacific Northwest history." Includes an explanation of the project methodology, oral history transcripts, and a list of sources. From the Center for Columbia River History. http://www.ccrh.org/oral/women&timber/ Topics: History, Nonfiction by Genre, U.S. History By Place Last updated Oct 22, 2004 |
|||
| Copyright © 2009, Librarians' Internet Index, LII. All rights reserved. Financial support for LII (Librarians' Internet Index) comes from the The iSchool at Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology and the IPL Consortium. LII is hosted by The iSchool at Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology. |