U.S. Oral History in the Yahoo! Directory

Veterans History Project (American Folklife Center)
Project created by the United States Congress to collect the stories and experiences of U.S. war veterans to honor them and document their contributions.
www.loc.gov/vets
Terkel, Studs@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Journalists/Terkel__Studs
In Their Own Words...
NIH researchers recall the early years of AIDS. Requires Macromedia Shockwave Player.
aidshistory.nih.gov
Alive In Truth: The New Orleans Disaster Oral History and Memory Project [read review]
Hurricane Katrina oral history project collecting personal stories from survivors about the hurricane and its aftermath in New Orleans.
www.aliveintruth.org
Great American Speeches: 80 Years of Political Oratory
Features a collection of speech texts from contemporary American history, history quizzes and trivia, a rhetoric challenge, and more.
www.pbs.org/greatspeeches
Black Oral History
Consists of interviews with African American pioneers and their descendents throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. A project conducted by Quintard Taylor and his associates, Charles Ramsay and John Dawkins from 1972 to 1974.
www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xblackoralhistory.html
1968: The Whole World Was Watching
Includes audio files, transcripts, and edited stories from 30 interviews conducted by high school students around recollections of the events of 1968.
www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968
Social Security Administration Oral History
Transcripts and archives.
www.ssa.gov/history/orallist.html
I, Witness to History
Specializes in preserving life stories and histories of America's elderly.
www.iwitnesstohistory.org
I-10 Witness Project, The
Hurricane Katrina oral history project collecting stories of endurance, hope, loss, and solidarity in the aftermath of the storm and throughout the rebuilding process. Interviews are in MP3 audio format.
www.i10witness.org
What did you do in the war, Grandma?
History of Rhode Island women during World War II.
www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women
American Leaders Speak
Recordings from WWI and the 1920 Election, from the Library of Congress American Memory Collection.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml
Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement, The
Collection of primary sources exploring the social and political history of the disability movement from the 1960s to the present.
bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm
Oral History on Science, Space, and Technology
Online catalog of the contents of oral history projects conducted between 1981 and 1990.
www.nasm.si.edu/research/dsh/ohp-introduction.html
Vietnam Veterans Oral History and Folklore Project@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Vietnam_War/Vietnam_Veterans_Oral_History_and_Folklore_Project
Life After the Holocaust [read review]
Stories of Holocaust survivors after the war. From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/life_after_holocaust
U.S. Labor and Industrial History World Wide Web Audio Archive
Features recorded interviews, speeches, and more. From SUNY Albany.
www.albany.edu/history/LaborAudio
Voices of the Colorado Plateau [read review]
Oral history recordings and historic photographs that document people and places of the past in the Four Corners region of the Southwest.
archive.li.suu.edu/voices
Veterans History Project: Voices of War
Companion site for the book, Voices of War, the first book of stories drawn from the collections of the Veterans History Project. From The Library of Congress.
www.loc.gov/vets/stories/voicesofwar
California as I Saw It
First-person narratives of California's early years, 1849-1900.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html