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All That Philly Jazz
A public history project on Philadelphia jazz that draws on archival materials and oral histories to cover clubs, musici…
American Diary Project
A nonprofit archive that rescues diaries and journals of ordinary Americans, much of it readable online for free, offeri…
Animation Guild Oral History: Bob Givens
A long video interview with Bob Givens, the animator who drew the first Bugs Bunny model sheet, recalling Warner Bros.,…
Archaeology of Taste
An oral-history collection of interviews in which people of all ages remember the food of their childhood, from school d…
Archive of Native American Recorded History
A growing digital archive of recorded oral histories from Indigenous communities, preserving languages, stories, and liv…
Composer Chumei Watanabe on Scoring Japanese Films
An oral-history interview with Chumei Watanabe, composer of Mazinger Z and Kikaider, recalling decades of writing music…
Coney Island History Project
A nonprofit archive celebrating Coney Island's amusement history, with oral history recordings, old photos, videos and a…
Deep Blue Sea VFX Oral History
An oral history of how the visual effects team pulled off Samuel L. Jackson's shock shark death in Deep Blue Sea, told b…
Densho
An archive of oral history interviews and documents preserving the memory of Japanese American incarceration during Worl…
Documenting the American South
UNC's digital library of Southern history and literature, with full texts of slave narratives, diaries, oral histories,…
Encounter Stories
An online audio exhibition by Marion Lepretre: scroll through portraits of people met in Colombia, Mexico, France and Tu…
Flashlights: Jailhouse Lawyers
A history of jailhouse lawyers, prisoners who teach themselves the law to fight for their own rights and their peers, to…
Greenham Women Everywhere
An archive of the Greenham Common women's peace camp, gathering audio and written testimonies, photographs and songs fro…
Jack Spratt's Vietnam Story
A first-hand personal account of Navy swift boat service in Vietnam in 1970, with photographs and recollections kept on…
MPR Archive
The Minnesota Public Radio archive, with over 50,000 preserved broadcasts, interviews and photos dating back to 1967, fr…
NYC Trans Oral History Project
A community archive of interviews with trans New Yorkers, offering recordings and transcripts that preserve first-hand h…
Oral History Association
The professional home for oral historians, with guides on interviewing techniques and links to major oral history projec…
Spore: An Oral History
A long oral history of Spore, the decade-long gamble to simulate life from cell to galaxy, told by eight team members in…
Stonewall Forever
A digital monument to the 1969 Stonewall uprising, gathering oral histories, archival collections and a documentary with…
StoryCorps
A nonprofit oral history project sharing recorded conversations between everyday people, preserving stories of American…
Students of COVID-19
A student-journalism project collecting first-person stories from college students around the world about life sent home…
Studs Terkel Radio Archive
Thousands of Studs Terkel's radio conversations from 46 years on Chicago's WFMT, free to stream: artists, writers, activ…
Telephonic Youth
A history project about young people's phone cultures in the 1980s and 90s, with audio interviews, an online exhibition…
The 1947 Partition Archive
A collection of firsthand video and audio testimonies from people who lived through the 1947 partition of British India.
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