Center for History of Physics
Niels Bohr Library (about)
Oral History Interview Abstracts
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American
Life Histories
Manuscripts from the Federal
Writer's Project, 1936-1940
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Using Oral History
Lesson Overview
Library of Congress
Learning Page
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Smithsonian Institution
Contains largest collection of documents on the history of the visual arts in the United States from Colonial times to the present. An active oral history program was established to record the lives of living artists and art
world figures.
Rocky Gap, Virginia (Appalachia
Index Page by Topic
Institute of International Studies
University of California, Berkeley
Distinguished men and women from all over the world talk about their lives and their work. They reminisce about their participation in great events. Guests include diplomats, statesmen, and soldiers; economists and political analysts; scientists and historians; writers and foreign correspondents; activists and artists.
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University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage and at the Tougaloo College Archives.
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Pennsylvania State Archives
Preserves the first-hand recollections
of immigrants coming to America during the years Ellis Island was in operation: 1892-1954.
H-Oralhist is a network for scholars and professionals active in studies related to oral history. Provides resources for oral history studies, links to oral histories online (by subject), and bilbiographnies of oral history projects.
History Matters is a project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. (about)
A Rural Woman Recalls Farm Life in the Early Twentieth Century
Witness and experience the stories, photographs, and memories of pioneers who built neighborhoods, established churches nd busiesses, and fought to end discriminain and prejudice.
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JIM
CROW Maryland Oral Histories
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Accounts of African-Americans living in Montgomery County during segregation
Springbrook High School
Silver Spring, MD
Collaboration among the Kellytown Neighborhood Association, Barbara Rivers and her grade school class at Venable Elementary School and the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia.
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Life Reborn
Jewish Displaced Persons, 1945-1951
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (about)
video (requires RealPlayer)
National Archives and Records Administration
Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Musuem
University of Texas
Account of 2 Japanese-American girls stranded in Japan at out break of war on December 7, 1941.
Oral History and Folklore
Oral history collections housed in academic libraries, current oral history projects, and some links to online oral histories.
Written, edited, and published by the Belle Fourche High School Historiography Class, 1996. Contains interviews, personal storiest and photo essays South Dakota's heritage.
Oral History in the Teaching of U.S. History. ERIC Digest
ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education, Bloomington, IN.
Contains oral histories on a variety of topics. Use SEARCH feature to find them on the website.
Type in search box "oral history" (Include quotation marks.)
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University of Florida
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Interviews with Arthur J. Altmeyer, one of the most important figures in the history of Social Security. President Franklin Roosevelt called him "Mr. Social Security.
Oral history interviews with former senators and retired members of the Senate staff. Individuals give personal recollections of their careers with the Senate, and discussions of how Congress changed during their tenures. Links to online interviews are provided as well as listings of those available at the Senate Library, the Library of Congress, the National Archives and Records Administration, and a microfiche edition distributed by Scholarly Resources, Inc. (about)
University of California,
Berkeley
Oral History Online Project
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Ratonale for oral history, interview tips, questions, and interviewer forms.
Stanford and Silcon Valley Oral History Interviews
- Douglas Englebart
- Bruce Deal
An Oral History of Rhode Island Women during World War II
Written by students in the Honors English Program at South Kingstown High School.
Student interviews of Rhode Islanders about their recollections of the year 1968. Their stories include references to the Vietnam War, the struggle for Civil Rights, the Assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy.
(about the projects and teacher resources)
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