American Memory Historical
Collections for the National Digital Library Library
of Congress has given us this excellent public domain.resource.
http://memory.loc.gov
American Notes:
Travel in America 1750-1920 253 narratives about
travel in America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/lhtnhtml/lhtnhome.html
American Roots Music
A rich library of insight into the music and lives of the players
by featuring complete transcripts of these interviews.
http://www.pbs.org/americanrootsmusic/pbs_arm_oral_histories.html
Artists Archives of the Western
Reserve Gives a brief bibliography of the artists
from the Western Reserve area and shows samples of their artwork.
www.artistsarchives.org
Born in Slavery:
Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938
This site contains more than 2,300 first person accounts
of slavery and 500 black and white photographs of former slaves.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/
Conversations with History
Men and women from all over the world talk about their lives
and work. http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/
Duke University Special Collections
Library Offers a wide variety of primary source texts,
many related to women of the Civil War, African-American women,
the women's lib movement, etc. http://www.toptags.com/aama/
The Magpie Sings the Great
Depression: Selections from DeWitt Clinton High School's Literary
Magazine 1929-1942 Presents almost 200 poems, articles,
and short stories and many graphics and photographs from The
Magpie, literary magazine of Dewitt Clinton High School. http://newdeal.feri.org/magpie/
Mountain Voices Transcripts
of testimonies given by people from mountain communities (Himalayan's,
Andes, China and more!) http://www.mountainvoices.org/
Regional History Project
The Regional History Project has been documenting the
history of the Central Coast of California and the institutional
history of UC Santa Cruz since 1963, through oral history. http://library.ucsc.edu/reg-hist/
The Rise and Fall of Jim
Crow Has audio, video and text stories from the Jim
Crow era. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/
Using Oral History
Download Lesson
You can listen to the voices of Women at Work in the
30’s, Dancing as Recreation and Americans and Automobiles
http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/oralhist/oraldown.html
War Stories Journalists
discuss what they've seen and heard in covering conflicts.
http://www.newseum.org/warstories/index.htm
Youngstown State University
Oral History Collection Collects and preserves first-person
narratives of northeastern Ohioans who have participated in,
or closely observed events which have significantly affected
both the state and nation. http://www.maag.ysu.edu/oralhistory/oral_hist.html
