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External Oral History Sites

If you are new to oral history, there are a lot of good sites that can teach you the ropes and give you idea of your ethical obligations as an interviewer.

General Oral History Sites:

  1. H-Oralhist is a network for scholars and professionals active in studies related to oral history: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~oralhist
  2. Indiana University: Center for the Study of History and Memory: Includes Oral history techniques, listing of programs in oral history and public history and suggested reading lists. How to teach oral history to secondary students. http://www.indiana.edu/~cshm/
  3. International Oral History Association Links: http://www.ioha.fgv.br/
  4. Levine Museum of the New South:http://www.museumofthenewsouth.org/
  5. One-Minute Guide to Oral History: A quick review before you go out into the field: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/1minute.html
  6. Oral History Association: This included ethnical guidelines of the association which should be read before you head out into the field.http://omega.dickinson.edu/organizations/oha/
  7. Oral history in China: For those of you who recently took John Flower’s course. http://oralhistory.netfirms.com
  8. University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Oral History Program:http://www2.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/ohp/ohpindex.htm
  9. University of Cape Town, Center for Popular Memory:http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/cfpm/

Southern Oral Histories:

  1. Southern Oral History Program (UNC-Chapel Hill):               http://www.lib.unc.edu/instruct/manuscripts/collections/sohp.html
  2. Behind the Veil: Duke University collection of oral sources concerning the experience of African Americans in the Jim Crow South.http://cds.aas.duke.edu/btv/
  3. Documenting the American South:http://docsouth.unc.edu/index.html
  4. Library of Congress first person narratives of the American South, 1860-1920:http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncuhtml/fpnashome.html
  5. New South Voices: Based at UNCC this collection includes oral histories collected by both the Levine Museum and UNCC:http://newsouthvoices.uncc.edu/trial.jsp
  6. UNC Oral history collections inventory:http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/htm/04007.html
  7. WPA slave narratives:http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html. And also:http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

National and International Oral Histories:

  1. 1968: The Whole World Was Watching:http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968
  2. Federal Writers’ Project.1936-1940, Life histories manuscripts:http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
  3. John F Kennedy Library Oral History Project:http://www.cs.umb.edu/~serl/jfk/oralhist.htm
  4. Oral Histories on line: Extensive listing of accessible online oral histories worldwide: http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/oralhist/index.html
  5. Oral Histories of Space, Technology and Science:http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/dsh/ohp-introduction.html
  6. Michigan State University: A variety of collections to include Studs Terkel and the Flint Sitdown strikes of the 1930s.http://matrix.msu.edu/
  7. Veterans History Project: This includes oral histories from the Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/