StoryCorps: America's Oral History
StoryCorps
StoryCorps is an independent nonprofit project whose mission is to honor and celebrate one another's lives through listening.
IN THIS SERIES
May 1, 2009 · Johnny Bradley grew up in Georgia working another man's land. Now he owns his own farm and tells his daughter what he took away from that experience as a sharecropper's son.
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April 24, 2009 · Marvin Goldstein was a toddler in 1945 when he fell out of a window five stories up in Brooklyn, N.Y. Fortunately for him, Sal Mauriello was there. Goldstein tells the story of Mauriello's great catch — and their reunion years later — to his son, Eric.
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April 17, 2009 · Two former students of Michigan's Bath School remember a deadly bombing and its aftermath. The school's caretaker planted a bomb in the school, killing 38 children and injuring many others.
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April 10, 2009 · Nancy Wright acknowledges that stubbornness is "kind of a family trait." Her mother, Frances, could be stubborn — and overly critical. A few months after Frances' death, Nancy told her son J.D. about how her relationship with her mother had changed over the years.
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April 3, 2009 · When Gus Hernandez and his family were evicted from their home, they sought shelter at Siddiqi Hansoti's El Dorado Motel in Salinas, Calif. What was meant to be a temporary stay for Hernandez became a new job, and a friendship as well.
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March 27, 2009 · Historian John Hope Franklin, who died this week at 94, both chronicled and lived through racism in America. One of those firsthand experiences with racism came when he was a 12-year-old boy in Tulsa, Okla., in the 1920s.
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March 20, 2009 · Ed Pierce, a former managing editor of a Miami newspaper, tells his grandson the story of how he turned mistakes on a printed map into a competition for readers. "They all were throwing up their hands, and then I came up with probably my greatest achievement as a managing editor," Pierce says.
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March 13, 2009 · George Edwardson's grandfather, Roy Ahmaogak, was a Presbyterian minister who helped create a writing system for his native language, Inupiq. Edwardson says watching Ahmaogak helped him to translate the language of love between his grandparents.
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March 6, 2009 · P.J. Goetz explains to her 11-year-old son, Sam, how she and his dad met, and what she's learned during their 23 years together. "Love is as much a feeling as it is an action," she says.
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February 27, 2009 · Lourdes Villanueva's parents were migrant workers who harvested fruit throughout the South. Recently, she told her son, Roger, what it was like in the 1960s trying to get an education when her family was constantly on the move.
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February 20, 2009 · The Rev. James Seawood remembers how black families fled Sheridan, Ark., in the 1950s. His school stayed open until the last black family left — and then the town tore the school down "as though it was never there."
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February 13, 2009 · Ninety-year-old Bill Schifrin has been selling wedding rings in New York City's diamond district since 1947. When he sees a couple kissing on the streets, he likes to tap the man on the shoulder and hand him his card. Schifrin says that's because "married couples don't kiss on the street."
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February 6, 2009 · Ida Cortez, 10, wasn't diagnosed with dyslexia until she was 6 years old. She says she hated every second of learning how to read, but that her mom inspired her and helped her to learn.
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January 30, 2009 · The nation's current financial crisis has been called the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. James Bost, 86, says the tough times have him emulating his father — who took some extreme measures to survive those lean years.
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January 23, 2009 · Schoolteacher EJ Miller wanted to know more about his grandfather, who died in 1998. And when he asked his dad, the moment gave rise to stories of both childhood and fatherhood.
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