Oral History Online
Access: On-Site Access Only
Description: Oral History Online provides indexing to almost 2,000 collections of Oral History in English from around the world. The collection also provides keyword searching of more than 129,000 pages of full-text by some 4,300 individuals from all walks of life. Oral History also contains pointers to some 1,400 audio and video files and over 10,000 bibliographic records. Updated quarterly.
Selected Oral Histories on the Web:
- American Life Histories, Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
- Archives of American Art, Oral History Collections (Smithsonian Institution)
- BBC - Audio and Video History
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
- Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
- Columbia Communities (The Center for Columbia River History)
- Experiencing War: Stories from the Veterans History Project (Library of Congress)
- Flint Sit-Down Strike
- Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (Library of Congress)
- History and Politics Out Loud
- IEEE History Center Oral Histories (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.)
- Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (University of North Carolina)
- May 4 Collection (Kent State University)
- Online Audio and Video Recordings: UC Berkeley Lectures and Events
- Open Video Project
- Oral History Project of the U.S. Senate Historical Office
- Regional Oral History Office (University of California, Berkeley)
- Remembering Jim Crow
- Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Cold War
- Women in Journalism (Washington Press Club Foundation)
Coverage: Various Dates
Subject(s) History, Genealogy & Archives Multidisciplinary
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Related Databases
America : History and Life Historical Abstracts North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories North American Women's Letters and Diaries Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Related Links
Conversations with History
In the First Person ** http://www.inthefirstperson.com/ **
Kentuckiana Digital Library ** http://kdl.kyvl.org/ **
Veterans History Project ** http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/vhp/html/search/search.html **
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