Index of Site Contents

A

• A Commonwealth of Cultures booklet by Mary Hufford
• A Teacher's Guide to Folklife Resources searchable database of educational resources by Carol Moran and Catherine Hiebert Kerst
• About the American Folklife Center
• Addresses, phone numbers, email addresses: Contact Information
• AFCnews Listserv (announcement list)
• After the Day of Infamy: The "Man on the Street Interviews" Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941(online collection)
• American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings: A Selected List (annual issues 1988-1992)
• American Folklife Center Collections Policy Statement
• American Memory Collections: See Collections and Presentations Online
• Announcements:
  • Events and Announcements
  • AFCnews Listserv
• Annual Reports of the American Folklife Center
• Archive of Folk Culture: Collections and Research Services: The Archive of Folk Culture
• Archive of Folk Culture: How to do Research in the Archive of Folk Culture
• Archive of Folk Culture Finding Aids
• Archival Practice:
  • American Folklife Center Collections Policy Statement
  • Ethnographic Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture: A Contributor's Guide brochure by Stephanie A. Hall
  • Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture
  • Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis: Symposium and Products
  • Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis report from CLIR, provided on the CLIR Web site
  • Historic Sound Recordings Collections Win Save America's Treasures Preservation Grant article by James Hardin
  • Intellectual Property Rights and Audiovisual Archives and Collections article by Anthony Seeger
  • No Time to Dawdle: Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis article by James Hardin
  • Preservation of Audio article by Elizabeth Cohen
  • Preserving Sound Recordings article by Stephanie A. Hall
  • Save Our Sounds Project
  • Stating the Obvious: Lessons Learned While Accessing Archival Audio Collections article by Virginia Danielson
• Awards (Parson's Fund Award, Blanton Owen Award, Henry Reed Award, etc.)

B

• Bibliographies: Historic Bibliographies and Reference Aids
• Benjamin Botkin Lecture Series
• Benjamin Botkin Lecture Series Online Archives of past lecture materials (flyer lectures, selected Webcasts, links to related information)
• Blues: "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 (online collection)
• Board of Trustees of the American Folklife Center
• Botkin, Benjamin: Benjamin Botkin's Legacy-in-the-Making article by Jerrold Hirsch
• "Bringing in the May" by Jennifer Cutting (Web cast from the Library's Journeys and Crossings Series)
• Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-82 (online collection)
• Burton: Mary Sheppard Burton Collection (online collection)

C

• California Gold: Northern California Folk Music From the Thirties (online collection)
• Captain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal (online collection)
• Catalog: Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog (1933-1950)
• CDs: See Published Recordings
• Collection Policy: American Folklife Center Collections Policy Statement
• Collections and Research Services: The Archive of Folk Culture
• Collections: List of Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture
• Collections and Special Presentations Online from the Archive of Folk Culture
• A Commonwealth of Cultures booklet by Mary Hufford
• Community Roots: Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation)
• Concerts, See: Events and Announcements
• Contact Information for the American Folklife Center
• Contact Information for the Veterans History Project
• Contributors Guide: Ethnographic Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture: A Contributor's Guide a booklet by Stephanie A. Hall
• The Creation of the American Folklife Center: Public Law 94-201

D

• Directories:
  • Collections and Special Presentations Available Online from the Archive of Folk Culture
  • Contact Information for the American Folklife Center
  • Contact Information for the Veterans History Project
  • Folklife Sourcebook directory by Peter Bartis and Stephanie Hall
  • Published Sound Recordings from the Archive of Folk Culture
  • Resources in Ethnographic Studies (links)
  • Services to the States, Trusts, Territories, and the District of Columbia by the American Folklife Center
  • A Teacher's Guide to Folklife Resources searchable database of educational resources by Carol Moran and Catherine Hiebert Kerst
• Documenting Maritime Folklife book by David A. Taylor
• Donating Collections: Ethnographic Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture: A Contributor's Guide a booklet by Stephanie A. Hall
• Duplication service: See Ordering Copies of Recordings from Archive of Folk Culture Collections

E

• Educational Resources:
  • A Commonwealth of Cultures booklet by Mary Hufford
  • Educational Opportunities and Programs
  • Educators' Resources (links)
  • Explore Your Community educational poster
  • Field Schools for Cultural Documentation
  • Folklife and Fieldwork booklet by Peter Bartis
  • Getting Started: How do I do Folklife?
  • Montana Heritage Project: See the link to their site in Educator's Resources
  • A Teacher's Guide to Folklife Resources searchable database of educational resources by Carol Moran and Catherine Hiebert Kerst
  • Training Program for Indigenous Communitites (Press Release May 14, 2008)
  • World Wide Web Resources for Cultural Heritage Research Projects (links)
  • Veterans History Project: Classroom Resources page from the Veterans History Project
  • What is an Ethnographic Field Collection?
• The Endangered Music Project: See Published Recordings
• Ethnographic Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture: A Contributor's Guide a booklet by Stephanie A. Hall
• Ethnographic Resources: See Resources in Ethnographic Studies
• Events and Announcements
• Events Online Archives:
• Homegrown Concert Series Online Archives
• Botkin Lecture Series Online Archives
• Experiencing War: Stories from the Veterans History Project (special presentation, video and audio)
• Explore Your Community educational poster

F

• Field Schools for Cultural Documentation
• Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection (online collection)
• Finding Aids for collections in the Archive of Folk Culture
• Finding Aids to Individual Collections
• Finding aids: Finding Aids Organized by Topic
• Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 (online collection)
• Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis Symposium and Products
• Folklife and Fieldwork booklet by Peter Bartis
• Folklife Center News
• Folklife Sourcebook directory by Peter Bartis and Stephanie Hall
• Folk-Songs of America: the Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-1932 (online presentation of recordings and photographs from the 1978 LP)

G

• Getting Started: How do I do Folklife?
• Gift Funds for private donations to the American Folklife Center
• Gordon, Robert Winslow: Folk-Songs of America: the Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-1932 (online presentation of recordings and photographs from the 1978 LP)
• Guides:
  • Ethnographic Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture: A Contributor's Guide a booklet by Stephanie A. Hall
  • Finding Aids for collections in the Archive of Folk Culture
  • Folklife and Fieldwork booklet by Peter Bartis
  • Documenting Maritime Folklife a book by David A. Taylor
  • A Teacher's Guide to Folklife Resources searchable database of educational resources by Carol Moran and Catherine Hiebert Kerst
  • (See also: Directories)
• Guthrie, Woody: Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song, Correspondence 1940-1950 (online collection)

H

• Halloween: The Fantasy and Folklore of All Hallows article by Jack Santino
• Homegrown Concert Series
• Homegrown Concert Series Online Archives of past concerts (including flyer essays, selected webcasts, and links to related materials)
• How to Contact The American Folklife Center and the Veterans History Project
• How to do Research in the Archive of Folk Culture
• Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection (online collection)

I-J-K

• In Country: The Vietnam War, 30 Years After (Veterans History Project symposium webcast)
• Indigenous Communities: Training Program for Indigenous Communitites (Press release May 14, 2008)
• Internships

L

• Lectures, See: Events and Announcements
• Links:
  • Resources in Ethnographic Studies
  • Resources for Sound Archives
  • World Wide Web Resources for Cultural Heritage Research Projects
• List of Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture
• Listserv: AFCnews Listserv (Announcement list)
• Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (LC Bicentennial site, 2000)
• Lomax, Alan: Alan Lomax, 1915-2002 an appreciation by James Hardin
• Lomax, Alan: The Alan Lomax Collection (online presentation of selections from the collection)
• Lomax, John and Ruby: Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (online collection)

M

• Maritime Folklife: Documenting Maritime Folklife a book by David A. Taylor
• Mary Sheppard Burton Collection (online collection)
• May Day: "Bringing in the May" by Jennifer Cutting (Web cast from the Library's Journeys and Crossings Series)
• Montana Heritage Project: See the link to their site in Educator's Resources

N

• The New Yellow Ribbon Tradition
• News: See Events and Announcements
• "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 (online collection)
• Nye: Captain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal (online collection)

O

• Omaha Indian Music (online collection)
• Online Archives of Past Benjamin Botkin Lectures
• Online Archives of Past Homegrown Concerts
• Online Collections: See Collections Available Online
• Oral History:
  • Folklife and Fieldwork a booklet by Peter Bartis
  • Veterans History Project Kit
• Ordering Copies of Unpublished Recordings from Archive of Folk Culture Collections
• Ordering Copies of Photographic Materials from Archive of Folk Culture Collections
• Owen Fund

P

• Parsons Fund
• Pearl Harbor:
• After the Day of Infamy: The "Man On the Street" Interviews (online collection)
• "Pearl Harbor Oral Histories " by Ann Hoog, webcast June 8, 2004. (Web cast from the Library's Journeys and Crossings Series)
• Photographs: Ordering Copies of Photographic Materials from Archive of Folk Culture Collections
• Publications in Print
• Public Law 94-201: The Creation of the American Folklife Center
• Published Sound Recordings from the Archive of Folk Culture
  
• Preservation:
  • Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis: Symposium and Products
  • Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis (report from CLIR, provided on the CLIR Web site)
  • Historic Sound Recordings Collections Win Save America's Treasures Preservation Grant article by James Hardin
  • No Time to Dawdle: Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis article by James Hardin
  • Preservation of Audio article by Elizabeth Cohen
  • Preserving Sound Recordings article by Stephanie Hall
  • Save Our Sounds Project

Q

• Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996 (online collection)

R

• Rael, Juan B.: Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection (online collection)
• Recordings (sound recordings)
  • American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings: A Selected List (annual issues 1988-1992)
  • Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis: Symposium and Products
  • Folksongs of America: the Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-1932 (online presentation of recordings and photographs from the 1978 LP)
  • Ordering Copies of Unpublished Recordings from Archive of Folk Culture Collections
  • Published Recordings from the Archive of Folk Culture
  • Save Our Sounds Project
  • See: Collections Available Online from the Archive of Folk Culture
• Reference: Collections and Research Services: The Archive of Folk Culture
• Research Awards
• Research: How to do Research in the Archive of Folk Culture
• Resources in Ethnographic Studies including links to Internet sites on anthropology, folklore, and ethnomusicology
• Ribbons: The New Yellow Ribbon Tradition

S

• Save Our Sounds Project
• September 11, 2001 presentations:
  • September 11, 2001 Documentary Project (webcast)
  • Witness and Response: September 11, 2001 Acqusitions at the Library of Congress (exhibition)
• Services to the Fifty States, Trusts, Territories, and the District of Columbia
• Sights and Sounds: Voices from the Veterans History Project (special presentation, audio)
• Sonkin, Robert: Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection (online collection)
• Sound Recordings:
  • American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings: A Selected List (annual issues 1988-1992)
  • Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis: Symposium and Products
  • Ordering Copies of Unpublished Recordings from Archive of Folk Culture Collections
  • Published Sound Recordings from the Archive of Folk Culture
  • Save Our Sounds Project
  • See: Collections Available Online from the Archive of Folk Culture
• Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (online collection)
• Staff:
  • Contact Information for the American Folklife Center
  • Contact Information for the Veterans History Project
• States:
  • Services to the Fifty States, Trusts, Territories, and the District of Columbia
  • Local Legacies Project
• StoryCorps FAQ and links

T

• A Teacher's Guide to Folklife Resources searchable database of educational resources by Carol Moran and Catherine Hiebert Kerst
• Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia (online collection)
• Todd, Charles L.: Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection (online collection)
• Topical Finding Aids: Finding aids: Finding Aids Organized by Topic
• Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog (1933-1950)
• Training Program for Indigenous Communitites (Press Release May 14, 2008)

U-V

• Veterans History Project
• Veterans: Experiencing War: Stories from the Veterans History Project (special presentation, video and audio)
• Video (Webcasts)
• Online Archives of Past Benjamin Botkin Lectures
• Online Archives of Past Homegrown Concerts
• Visiting The American Folklife Center: How to do Research in the Archive of Folk Culture
• Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection (online collection)
• Volunteer Internship Program at the American Folklife Center

W

• Webcasts:
• "Bringing in the May" by Jennifer Cutting (Webcast from the Library's Journeys and Crossings Series)
• Folklife Heritage Collections in Crisis (This 2000 symposium site includes webcasts of two of the three keynote addresses)
• In Country: The Vietnam War, 30 Years After (Veterans History Project symposium webcast)
• Online Archive of Past Botkin Series Lectures
• Online Archive of Past Homegrown Concerts
• "Pearl Harbor Oral Histories " by Ann Hoog, June 8, 2004. (Webcast from the Library's Journeys and Crossings Series)
• West Virginia: Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia (online collection)
• What is an Ethnographic Field Collection?
• What is Folklife?
• What's New?: See Events and Announcements
• Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song, Correspondence 1940-1950 (online collection)

X-Y-Z

• Yellow Ribbon: The New Yellow Ribbon Tradition articles by Gerald E. Parsons