Oral history Resources

Books:

Allen, Barbara and Lynwood Montell. From Memory to History: Using Oral Sources in
Local Historical Research. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1981.

Baron, Robert and Nicholas R. Spitzer, ed. Public Folklore. Washington, DC: Smithsonian
Institution Press, 1992.

Bartis, Peter. Folklife and Fieldwork: A Layman's Introduction to Field Techniques.
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1990.

Baum, Willa K. Oral History for the Local Historical Society. Nashville: American
Association for State and Local History, 1987.

Buckendorf, Madeline and Laurie Mercer. Using Oral History in Community History
Projects. Pamphlet Series #4. Albuquerque: Oral History Association, 1992.

Frisch, Michael. A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and
Public History. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991.

Grele, Ronald J. Envelopes of Sound: The Art of Oral History. New York: Praeger, 1991.

Ives, Edward D. The Tape-Recorded Interview: A Manual for Field Workers in Folklore and Oral History. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1980.

Jackson, Bruce. Fieldwork. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Kammen, Carol. On Doing Local History: Reflections on What Local Historians Do, Why, and What it Means. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1986.

Kyvig, David E. and Myron A. Marty. Nearby History: Exploring the Past Around You.
Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1982.

Lanman, Barry A. and George L. Mehaffy. Oral History in the Secondary School Classroom. Pamphlet #2. Los Angeles: Oral History Association, 1989.

Light Impressions. The Leading Resource for Archival Supplies Catalog. 1-800 828-6216.

Schorzman, Terri A., ed. A Practical Introduction to Videohistory: The Smithsonian
Institution and Alfred P. Sloan Experiment. Melbourne: Krieger Publishing Co., 1993.

Transcribing and Editing Local History. Nashville: American Association for State
and Local History, 1991.

University Products: The Archival Company. Archival Quality Materials for Conservation,
Restoration, Preservation & Exhibition Catalog. 1-800-628-1912.

You Should Have Been Here Yesterday: A Guide to Cultural Documentation
in Maryland. Elaine Eff, ed. With contributions from Paula Johnson, Andrea Hammer, Carl Fleischhauer, Susan Levitas, Nick Spitzer, David Taylor, Mame Warren and Brien Williams. Maryland Historical Trust Press, Crownsville, 1995.

Websites:

ACT UP Oral History Project: http://www.actuporalhistory.org

After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on
Pearl Harbor: Library of Congress, American Memory: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afcphhtml/afcphhome.html

al-Nakba's Oral History Project: http://www.palestineremembered.com/OralHistory/index.html

Alaska's Digital Archive: http://vilda.alaska.edu/

American Association for State and Local History: http://www.aaslh.org

American Century Project: http://www.doingoralhistory.org/index.html

American Folklife Center, Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/

American Life Histories, Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940,
Library of Congress, American Memory: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html

American Radioworks Remembering Jim Crow: http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/read.html

American Roots Music, PBS: http://www.pbs.org/americanrootsmusic/pbs_arm_oral_histories.html

Archives of American Art, Oral History Collections, Smithsonian Institution, Archives of
American Art: http://www.aaa.si.edu/oralhist/oralhist.htm

The Art of the Oral Historian: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/oralhlec.html

The Barbecue Oral History Project:
http://www.southernfoodways.com/oral_history/tnbbq/index.shtml

Barrios Oral History Project, Tempe Historical Museum Research Library: http://www.tempe.gov/museum/barrios.htm

Baylor University, Institute for Oral History: http://www.baylor.edu/oral%5Fhistory/

Blackout History Project: http://blackout.gmu.edu/forum/interviews.html

C-SPAN American Political Archives: http://www.c-span.org/apa/programs.asp

California State University-Long Beach, Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive:
http://salticid.nmc.csulb.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/OralAural.woa/

Center for Oral History and Cultural History (Mississippi): http://www.usm.edu/oralhistory/

Chemical Heritage Foundation: http://www.chemheritage.org/exhibits/ex-nav2.html

Chicago Architects Oral History Project, the Art Institute of Chicago: http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/caohp/

Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive, McCain Library and Archive,
University of Southern Mississippi: http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda/index.html

Civil Rights Movement Veterans Our Stories: http://www.crmvet.org/nars/narshome.htm

Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive: http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/crbeha/

Communism in Washington State--History and Memory Project: http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/oralhistory/index.html

Delaware Heritage Commission Oral History Program:
http://heritage.delaware.gov/information/oralhist.shtml

Digital History, Collecting History Online: http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/

Digital Library of Georgia, Oral history:
http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/MediaTypes/Oralhistories.html

Documenting the American South: http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/

Ellis Island Oral History Project: http://www.nps.gov/archive/stli/serv02.htm#Silent

Free Speech Movement (FSM) Digital Archives: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/FSM/

Geneaology.com:
Effective Interviews
Family Legends and Myths
Family Traditions: The Ties That Bind
Get Nosy with Aunt Rosie
Interviewing Mom and Grandma: Oral History Tips
Oral Histories
Organizing Oral History Information
People as Sources for Family History

The Gulf War, PBS Frontline: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/

Harlem History, Columbia University Home, Institute for Research in African-American
Studies:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/iraas/harlem/index.html

Heritage Community Foundation - Youth Source: http://www.youthsource.ab.ca/teacher_resources/oral_overview.html

Historical Voices, The Flint Sit-down Strike: http://www.historicalvoices.org/flint/

History and Politics Out Loud: http://www.hpol.org/

History Channel "Oral History: Telling the story of the past": http://www.history.com/classroom/hometown/oralhistory.html

History Matters: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/oral/online.html

Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University:
http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/OralHistoryIntroduction.html

Hometown History Activity Booklet: http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_storage_01/0000000b/80/24/ce/e1.pdf

"How To: Resources for Planning and Conducting Oral History Interviews,"
Southern Oral History Program (SOHP) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
Southern Historical Collection: http://www.sohp.org/howto/index.html

Hurricane Digital Memory Bank: http://www.hurricanearchive.org/

IEEE History Center Oral Histories: http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/oral_history/oral_history.html

In The First Person: http://www.inthefirstperson.com/firp/index.aspx

Iranian Oral History Project , Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~iohp/transcripts/index2.html

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Oral history Collection: http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Oral+History+Project/

Kent State University May 4 Collection: http://www.library.kent.edu/exhibits/4may95/

Kentuckiana Digital Library:
http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oralhistbib;cc=oralhistbib;page=simple

Library of Congress - Using Oral History:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/lessons/oralhist/ohhome.html

Light Impressions Archival Supplies: http://www.LightImpressionsDirect.com

Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World, James Leloudis and Kathryn Walbert, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: http://www.ibiblio.org/sohp/laf/

Living Voices, National Museum of the American Indian:
http://www.nmai.si.edu/livingvoices/html/voices.html

Lyndon Baines Johnson Museum and Library Oral History Collection: http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/biopage.asp

Maine Memory Network: http://www.mainememory.net/

Many Voices, One Story, Billy Graham Center Archives: http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/exhibits/ohistory/oral02.htm

Maryland Historical Society Oral History Collection: http://www.mdhs.org/explore/library/FindOralHistories.html

Maryland Historical Trust Cultural Conservation Program:
http://www.marylandhistoricaltrust.net/index2.html

Miller Center of Public Affairs Presidential Oral History Program: http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/index.php/scripps/digitalarchive/oralhistories/index

NASA Headquarters History Office:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/oral_histories.htm

National Museum of Health and Medicine: http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/collections/archives/archives.html

National Park Service Oral History: http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/oh/

Naval historical Center, Oral Histories of World War II, Online:
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq87-3.htm

Niels Bohr Library, American Institute of Physics: http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/

Notable New Yorkers, Oral History Research Office of the Columbia University Libraries: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/nny/index.html

Olympus (Music and audio): http://www.olympusamerica.com

Oral History Association: http://www.dickinson.edu/oha/

Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region: http://www.ohmar.org/

Oral History Project: A Culture and Heritage Exchange Initiative:
http://oralhistory.minds.tv/

Oral History Project in Labor History, Roosevelt University: http://www2.roosevelt.edu/library/oralhistory/oralhistory.htm

Panasonic (Consumer electronics, Audio, Portable audio) http://www.panasonic.com

A Primer for Teaching Oral History in a Community College Classroom: http://www.accd.edu/pac/history/hist1302/oralhistoryprimer.htm

Project Jukebox, Oral History Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks:
http://uaf-db.uaf.edu/Jukebox/PJWeb/pjhome.htm

Rutgers University, New Brunswick History Department:
http://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/

Senate Historical Office:
http://senate.gov/pagelayout/history/g_three_sections_with_teasers/oralhistory.htm

September 11 Digital Archives: http://www.911da.org/stories/

Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938,
Library of Congress, American Memory http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

Smithsonian Folklife and Oral History Interview Guide: http://www.folklife.si.edu/explore/Resources/InterviewGuide/InterviewGuide_home.html

Social Security Online: http://www.ssa.gov/history/orallist.html

Sony (Mobile Electronics/Portable Audio): http://www.sony.com

South Dakota Oral History Center: http://www.usd.edu/iais/oralhist.cfm

Southern Oral History Program: http://sohp.org/

Step-by-Step Guide to Oral History:
http://www.dohistory.org/on_your_own/toolkit/oralHistory.html

StoryCorps: http://www.storycorps.net/

Student Voices from World War II and the McCarthy Era:
http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/oralhistory/index.html

Studs Turkel: Conversations with America, Chicago Historical Society:
http://www.studsterkel.org/index.html

Texas Tech University Vietnam Archive: http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/oralhistory/

Texas Womens University WASP Project: http://www.twu.edu/wasp/oral.htm

United Indian Traders Association Oral History: http://www.nau.edu/library/speccoll/exhibits/traders/oralhistories/oralhist.html

University of California, Berkeley-Bancroft Library: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/collections/ohonline.html

University of California, Berkeley-Bancroft Library, The 1906 San Francisco
Earthquake and Fire: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/earthquakeandfire/index2.html

University of California Berkeley Institute of International Studies Conversations with History: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/

University of Iowa, Archives of Women in Science & Engineering: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/wise/Oral%20Histories/oral.html

University of Kentucky, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History: http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/libpage.php?lweb_id=11&llib_id=13

University Products: The Archival Company: http://www.universityproducts.com

US Army Center of Military History Oral History Collections:
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/collections/OralHis.htm

US Holocaust Memorial Museum: http://www.ushmm.org/

Veterans History Project: http://www.loc.gov/vets/

Voices of Civil Rights: http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org

Voices from the Days of Slavery, Library of Congress, American Memory: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/

Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin
Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941, Library of Congress, American Folklife Center: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html

Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color: http://voices.cla.umn.edu/

Voices of the Colorado Plateau: http://archive.li.suu.edu/voices/voices.html

Virtual Greenbelt, Oral Histories Of World War II-era Greenbelt: http://otal.umd.edu/~vg/community/community.html

Virtual Museum and Archive of SEC and Securities History: http://www.sechistorical.org/museum/oralhistories/index.php

Washington State University Civil Rights Oral History Interviews: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xcivilrights.html

What Did You Do in the War Grandma? An Oral History of Rhode Island
Women during World War II :
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html

The Whole World Was Watching: an oral history of 1968:
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/

Women in Chemistry Oral History Project:
http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/wise/Dreyfus/dreyfus.html

Women in Journalism, Washington Press Club Foundation:
http://npc.press.org/wpforal/ohhome.htm

WTO History Project: http://depts.washington.edu/wtohist/index.htm

Youngstown State University Oral History Collection:
http://www.maag.ysu.edu/oralhistory/oral_hist.html

The Zekelman Family Holocaust Memorial Center, The John J. Mames
Oral History Department:
http://www.holocaustcenter.org/index.php?option=com_
content&task=blogcategory&id=41&Itemid=10026

 

Programs in Oral History and Public History:

Institute for Oral History at Baylor University

Center for Studies in Oral Tradition at the University of Missouri, Columbia

Center for Oral History at the University of Connecticut, Storrs

Forrest C. Pogue Public History Institute at Murray State University

Oral History Program at the University of California, Los Angeles

Oral History Program at the Center for American History at the University of Texas, Austin

Oral History Program of the State Historical Society of Missouri

Public History Program at Middle Tennessee State University

Oral History Program at the University of Kentucky

Public History Program at SUNY-Albany

Public History at New York University

Public History at New Mexico State University

Public History Program at the University of Melbourne, Australia

Public History Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill