Community-based
oral history projects, often seeking to enhance feelings of local identity
and pride, tend to side step more difficult and controversial aspects
of a community's history, as interviewer and narrator collude to present
the community's best face.
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Why Are They Talking? - 3 views
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More practically, narrators whose interviews are intended for web publication, with a potential audience of millions, are perhaps more likely to exercise a greater degree of self-censorship than those whose interviews will be placed in an archive, accessible only to scholarly researchers. Personal motives too can color an interview.
Oral History Project - 3 views
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"The Sutherland College Oral History Project is an oral history collection and a teaching and learning resource. It was established to record the histories of students studying Social Inclusion and Vocational Access courses - second chance learners, and teaching and general staff of Sutherland College, past and present."
MEMORO INTERNATIONAL - 1 views
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"The Memoro Project is a non profit online initiative dedicated to collecting and divulgating short video recordings of spontaneous interviews with people born before 1940. An editorial staff identifies and authenticates the material uploaded by the volunteers involved in the project. The Memoro Project was created by Memoro S.r.l. with the financial support of the Province of Cuneo, Italy. [...]"
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Could be useful when teaching oral history to students. Or not. It's up to you.
Smithsonian Catalogues Oral History of the March on Washington « Indiana Jen - 3 views
Indian Country Diaries | PBS - 7 views
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The history of relationships between Native Americans, Europeans and other immigrants - includes sections on Assimilation, Relocation and Genocide, Indian Boarding Schools, Oral History of the Cherokee and an Interactive Map.
Milman Parry On-Line Collection - 0 views
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Might be useful for folk or cultural history. Has some narratives and poetry.
Talking History - 10 views
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Talking History, based at the University at Albany, State University of New York, is a production, distribution, and instructional center for all forms of "aural" history. Our mission is to provide teachers, students, researchers and the general public with as broad and outstanding a collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources as is available anywhere.
Doris Duke Collection - 0 views
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'The Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History online provides access to typescripts of interviews (1967 -1972) conducted with hundreds of Indians in Oklahoma regarding the histories and cultures of their respective nations and tribes. Related are accounts of Indian ceremonies, customs, social conditions, philosophies, and standards of living. Members of every tribe resident in Oklahoma were interviewed.'
BBC - Podcasts - Witness - 15 views
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Programming from the BBC with podcasts of oral interviews with people who lived through historic events.
Timbuktu mayor: Mali rebels torched library of historic manuscripts | World news | guar... - 1 views
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Islamist insurgents retreating from Timbuktu set fire to a library containing thousands of priceless historic manuscripts,
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The manuscripts had survived for centuries in Timbuktu, on the remote south-west fringe of the Sahara desert. They were hidden in wooden trunks, buried in boxes under the sand and in caves. When French colonial rule ended in 1960, Timbuktu residents held preserved manuscripts in 60-80 private libraries.The vast majority of the texts were written in Arabic. A few were in African languages, such as Songhai, Tamashek and Bambara. There was even one in Hebrew. They covered a diverse range of topics including astronomy, poetry, music, medicine and women's rights. The oldest dated from 1204.
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they exploded the myth that "black Africa" had only an oral history. "You just need to look at the manuscripts to realise how wrong this is."
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Such a tragedy
After the Day of Infamy: 'Man-on-the-Street' Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl H... - 0 views
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Might be interesting as a compare/contrast activity with interviews/media accounts from September 12, 2001?
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After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor presents approximately twelve hours of opinions recorded in the days and months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor from more than two hundred individuals in cities and towns across the United States. On December 8, 1941 (the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor)
Documenting the American South homepage - 0 views
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"Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes twelve thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs." That's what they say. Run by the University of North Carolina.
Studs Terkel : Conversations with America - 5 views
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"o listen to a sound, click on the file name of that selection. Real Audio is required for these recordings. If your system does not have Real Audio, it can be downloaded for free at http://www.real.com. "
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