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RESOURCES
This
growing list of resources provides information about current oral history
projects around the world. We have also provided links to guide you in conducting
your own oral history project.
To let us know about an oral history project, please click
here.
Oral History How to Guide
African American Contributions in St. Mary's County Maryland
http://www.ucaconline.org
Step-by-Step Guide to Oral History
http://www.dohistory.org/on_your_own/toolkit/oralHistory.html
African Americans
African American History
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/black.html
CCRH
This is a high school project that conducted a research on African American
history
http://www.ccrh.org/center/vaahp.htm
Getting Word
The Monticello African American Oral History Project Homepage
http://www.monticello.org/gettingword/
Black Women at Virginia Tech Oral History Project
includes photographs and oral history transcripts of the first black women
students to attend Virginia Tech.
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/blackwom/
Hartford Black History Project, Inc.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/HBHP/index.html
Georgia Government Documentation Project,
Georgia State University Special Collections provides some oral histories
concerning the African American experience and Georgia government. It can
be found at URL: http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/ggdp/index.htm
Agricultural History
Family Farm Project directed by Howard Sachs at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio.
URL: http://www.kenyon.edu/projects/famfarm/
Folklore and Cultural Studies
WPA Life Histories--Home Page includes a searchable database by keywords
and region for life histories written by the staffers of the Folklore Project
of the Federal Writer's Project of the U.S. Works Progress Administration
(WPA) during the period from 1936-1940. The URL is: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/wpaintro/wpahome.html
The Smithsonian Homepage and the Virtual Festival of American Folklife
A cultural celebration in cyberspace where teachers and students can savor
the ethnic foods of Hawai'i, learn to pronounce Yoruba names, see a video
of sacred Indian dances, and listen to languorous slack key guitar.
URL: http://www.mundotutoriales.com/tutorial_virtual_smithsonian_
folklife_festival-mdtutorial794454.htm
Holocaust
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University
Library is a collection of more than 3,600 videotaped interviews with witnesses
and survivors of the Holocaust. The URL for the site is: http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/homepage.html
Holocaust Memorial Center: Illuminating the Past, Enlightening
the Future, West Bloomfield, Michigan and the John J. Mames Oral History
Department. URL is: http://www.holocaustcenter.org/
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
In 1994, after filming Schindler’s List, Steven Spielberg established
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation with an urgent mission: to
chronicle, before it was too late, the firsthand accounts of survivors, liberators,
rescuers, and other eyewitnesses of the Holocaust. Recording more than 50,000
unedited testimonies, the largest undertaking of its kind, the Shoah Foundation
launched its mission to create a multimedia Archive to be used as an educational
and research tool. The archive is comprised of 200,000-plus videotapes filled
with more than 100,000 hours of testimony. To watch the entire collection
straight through would now take about 13 years and six months.
The main URL is: http://www.vhf.org/
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Oral
History Department and Archive
URL: http://www.ushmm.org
Local and Regional History
Georgia Government Documentation Project, GSU
Special Collections provides oral histories documenting Georgia politics.
The URL is: http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/ggdp/index.htm
Images of Iberville Parish: Place Embodied in Art,
the URL for this site is: http://ticklekitchin.com/ii/
UC Santa Cruz--University Library, Regional History
Project includes interviews and photographs documenting the history
of the Central Coast region of California and the institutional history of
the University of California, Santa Cruz.
The URL is: http://library.ucsc.edu/reg-hist/index.html
VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE: AREA & REGIONAL STUDIES PAGE
URL: http://vos.ucsb.edu/index-netscape.asp
Medical and Health
New Jersey Oral History AIDS Project UMDNJ Oral History
Collections is located at URL: http://www.umdnj.edu/~gfslweb/oralhist.html
Social Security Administration History Archives
contain over 100 Social Security and Medicare-related oral histories. http://www.ssa.gov/history/orallist.html
Military History and the Homefront
Veterans History Project
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/vets-home.html
An Oral History of the Gulf War. FRONTLINE /WGBH
Educational Foundation
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/
The Vietnam Archive Oral History Project at Texas
Tech University conducts interviews with people who participated in the events
surrounding the American Wars in Southeast Asia. Their interviews include
American, Allied, and South Vietnamese military and civilian personnel, North
Vietnamese and Viet Cong military and civilian personnel, civilians on the
home fronts, deserters, and protesters. Transcripts and streaming audio of
interviews are available from online links at: http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/oralhistory/
What did you do in the war, Grandma? An Oral History of Rhode Island
Women during World War II written by students in the Honors English Program
at South Kingstown High School.
URL: http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html
World War II Oral History Archives at Rutgers
University records 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 World War II, beginning with an initial target group of
Rutgers College alumni and Douglass College alumnae (formerly, New Jersey
College for Women). They currently feature 164 oral history interviews. The
URL is:
http://fas-history.rutgers.edu/oralhistory/orlhom.htm
Music
Jazz Oral History Index: Listing of interviews available in the Hogan Jazz
Archive of Tulane University.
URL: http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/OralHistoryIntroduction.html
Native Americans
Institute of American Indian Studies/South Dakota Oral History Center -
The largest Native American oral history collection in the US. Topics range
from ancient legends and traditional beliefs to recent political and social
issues. Director: Leonard R. Bruguier, University of South Dakota, Vermillion,
South Dakota.
URL: http://www.usd.edu/iais/
University of Alaska Fairbanks: The Oral History Program
Established in 1981 and now includes more than 8,000 recordings, many with
Native Alaskans. Notable in the collections is Project Jukebox--an interactive,
multi-media computer system that combines recordings with maps, photographs,
and printed text.
URL: http://www.uaf.edu/library/oralhistory/
Science and Technology
Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics
includes interviews with scientists, technicians and others within the scientific
community. URL is: http://www.aip.org/history/index.html
IEEE History Center, Rutgers University URL is : http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/
Social and Labor History
The American Social History Project,
http://www.ashp.cuny.edu
Women
Georgia Government Documentation Project, GSU
Special Collections includes interviews with women who served in the Georgia
legislature. A list of interviewees can be found at the following URL:
http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/ggdp/index.htm
Michigan Women Video Oral History Project at the Michigan Women's Historical
Center and Hall of Fame. Includes videotapes transmitted on cable access
channels documenting Michigan women of note. URL is: http://members.tripod.com/mwfame/oral.htm
