The
Center for Oral History
Center historians at the University of Connecticut develop source
material through a program of tape recorded interviews. The Center
can provide advice on project organization, interviewing techniques,
and funding sources for historical societies, libraries, students,
research professionals, businesses, government agencies, and others
beginning to work with oral histories.
Making
sense of Oral History
Making Sense of Oral History offers a place for students and teachers
to begin working with oral history interviews as historical evidence.
Written by Linda Shopes, this guide presents an overview of oral history
and ways historians use it, tips on what questions to ask when reading
or listening to oral history interviews, a sample interpretation of
an interview, an annotated bibliography, and a guide to finding and
using oral history online. Linda Shopes is a historian at the Pennsylvania
Historical and Museum Commission.
Oral
History Society
The Oral History Society is a national and international organisation
dedicated to the collection and preservation of oral history. It encourages
people of all ages to tape, video or write down their own and other
people's life stories.
Oral
History Association
The Oral History Association, established in 1966, seeks to bring
together all persons interested in oral history as a way of collecting
human memories. With an international membership, the OHA serves a
broad and diverse audience.
Oral
History Techniques
How to organize and conduct oral history iterviews, writtten by
Barbara Truesdell of Indidana University.
Veterans
History Project
The U.S. Congress created the Veterans History Project in October
2000. The legislation calls upon the American Folklife Center at the
Library of Congress to collect and preserve audio- and video-taped
oral histories, along with documents such as letters, diaries, maps,
photographs, and home movies, of America's war veterans and those
who served in support of them during World War I, World War II, and
the Korean, Vietnam, and Persian Gulf wars.
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