#oralhistories — Public Fediverse posts

Cape Fear Community College: CFCC Student Preserves Veterans’ Stories Through YouTube Channel. “What started as a teenage passion project has grown into a mission to document firsthand accounts from veterans and historical witnesses before their stories are lost. A student at Cape Fear Community College, Luke [Basso] has conducted more than 100 interviews for his YouTube channel, Filmperia. […]

Cape Fear Community College: CFCC Student Preserves Veterans’ Stories Through YouTube Channel. “What started as a teenage passion project has grown into a mission to document firsthand accounts from veterans and historical witnesses before their stories are lost. A student at Cape Fear Community College, Luke [Basso] has conducted more than 100 interviews for his YouTube channel, Filmperia. […]

Cape Fear Community College: CFCC Student Preserves Veterans’ Stories Through YouTube Channel. “What started as a teenage passion project has grown into a mission to document firsthand accounts from veterans and historical witnesses before their stories are lost. A student at Cape Fear Community College, Luke [Basso] has conducted more than 100 interviews for his YouTube channel, Filmperia. […]

Cape Fear Community College: CFCC Student Preserves Veterans’ Stories Through YouTube Channel. “What started as a teenage passion project has grown into a mission to document firsthand accounts from veterans and historical witnesses before their stories are lost. A student at Cape Fear Community College, Luke [Basso] has conducted more than 100 interviews for his YouTube channel, Filmperia. […]

Cape Fear Community College: CFCC Student Preserves Veterans’ Stories Through YouTube Channel. “What started as a teenage passion project has grown into a mission to document firsthand accounts from veterans and historical witnesses before their stories are lost. A student at Cape Fear Community College, Luke [Basso] has conducted more than 100 interviews for his YouTube channel, Filmperia. […]

🤔 Oh, Canada! Where the "Computer Hobby Movement" is somehow considered a museum-worthy relic. 🎨 Dive into the gripping oral histories of dial-up modems and 8-bit art that will leave you on the edge of your... social studies homework. 🖼️🇨🇦
https://museum.eecs.yorku.ca/exhibits/show/hobby_canada/hobby_canada #ComputerHobbyMovement #Canada #OralHistories #DialUpModems #8BitArt #HackerNews #ngated

🤔 Oh, Canada! Where the "Computer Hobby Movement" is somehow considered a museum-worthy relic. 🎨 Dive into the gripping oral histories of dial-up modems and 8-bit art that will leave you on the edge of your... social studies homework. 🖼️🇨🇦
https://museum.eecs.yorku.ca/exhibits/show/hobby_canada/hobby_canada #ComputerHobbyMovement #Canada #OralHistories #DialUpModems #8BitArt #HackerNews #ngated

🤔 Oh, Canada! Where the "Computer Hobby Movement" is somehow considered a museum-worthy relic. 🎨 Dive into the gripping oral histories of dial-up modems and 8-bit art that will leave you on the edge of your... social studies homework. 🖼️🇨🇦
https://museum.eecs.yorku.ca/exhibits/show/hobby_canada/hobby_canada #ComputerHobbyMovement #Canada #OralHistories #DialUpModems #8BitArt #HackerNews #ngated

🤔 Oh, Canada! Where the "Computer Hobby Movement" is somehow considered a museum-worthy relic. 🎨 Dive into the gripping oral histories of dial-up modems and 8-bit art that will leave you on the edge of your... social studies homework. 🖼️🇨🇦
https://museum.eecs.yorku.ca/exhibits/show/hobby_canada/hobby_canada #ComputerHobbyMovement #Canada #OralHistories #DialUpModems #8BitArt #HackerNews #ngated

Parks Stewardship Forum: Marianas Wartime Oral Histories Portal— Public-Facing Digital Archive of Island Memory. “The Marianas Wartime Oral Histories Portal is a public-facing digital archive of island memory that presents first-hand accounts of World War II (WWII) in the Mariana Islands.”

Columbia University: Complete Obama Presidency Oral History Archive Is Now Available. “Today, just 10 years after President Barack Obama left office, Columbia University’s Incite Institute opens the full Obama Presidency Oral History archive to the public. This groundbreaking digital archive offers everyone—students, researchers, journalists, and simply the curious—a trove of material for […]

UC Berkeley: ‘What makes it matter’: Oral history project captures heart and resilience of UC Berkeley’s libraries. “In her newly released oral history project, [Ann] Glusker’s passion and curiosity take flight. For ‘Librarians Navigating Change,’ she interviewed 15 retired and current UC Berkeley librarians, amassing nearly 400 pages of transcripts. The interviews chronicle four […]

University of Arkansas: Preserving Arkansas Veterans’ Stories: Pryor Center Launches New Iraq & Afghanistan Project. “Thousands of Arkansans served in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2001-2021, and every major military unit in the state played a role in both theaters of war. By the time both wars ended, more than 100 Arkansans had died, and hundreds more were injured. Now, as the wars slide into […]

University of Arkansas: Preserving Arkansas Veterans’ Stories: Pryor Center Launches New Iraq & Afghanistan Project. “Thousands of Arkansans served in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2001-2021, and every major military unit in the state played a role in both theaters of war. By the time both wars ended, more than 100 Arkansans had died, and hundreds more were injured. Now, as the wars slide into […]

University of Arkansas: Preserving Arkansas Veterans’ Stories: Pryor Center Launches New Iraq & Afghanistan Project. “Thousands of Arkansans served in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2001-2021, and every major military unit in the state played a role in both theaters of war. By the time both wars ended, more than 100 Arkansans had died, and hundreds more were injured. Now, as the wars slide into […]

University of Arkansas: Preserving Arkansas Veterans’ Stories: Pryor Center Launches New Iraq & Afghanistan Project. “Thousands of Arkansans served in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2001-2021, and every major military unit in the state played a role in both theaters of war. By the time both wars ended, more than 100 Arkansans had died, and hundreds more were injured. Now, as the wars slide into […]

Native News Online: NABS Documents 134 More Survivor Stories, Expands Digital Archive in 2025. “This past year, the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS)interviewed more than 130 Indian boarding school survivors, expanded its digital archive, and released the second volume of a curriculum about the boarding school era. That’s according to the organization’s […]

Free University Berlin: The Jewish Museum Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin Present Claude Lanzmann’s Audio Archive. “To mark one hundred years since the birth of Claude Lanzmann (1925–2018), the acclaimed French journalist, filmmaker, and chronicler of the Shoah, the Jewish Museum Berlin will be making Lanzmann’s audio archive accessible to the public for the first time. These […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/12/free-university-berlin-the-jewish-museum-berlin-and-freie-universitat-berlin-present-claude-lanzmanns-audio-archive/

UC San Francisco: Voices of Mount Zion Hospital: Physician Oral Histories Digitized and Online. “A trove of 54 oral-history audio recordings from Mount Zion Hospital, now part of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center at Mount Zion, conducted between 1995 and 1997, is now available online.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/08/voices-of-mount-zion-hospital-physician-oral-histories-digitized-and-online-uc-san-francisco/

Hoover Institution: Hoover Acquires the Collection of Oral Historian Griffin Fariello. “Interested in the history of political repression and resistance to abuses of power? The Hoover Institution Library & Archives has acquired an extensive collection of oral histories related to the Red Scare that were conducted by Bay Area author and Stanford alumnus Griffin Fariello.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/28/hoover-institution-hoover-acquires-the-collection-of-oral-historian-griffin-fariello/

Hoover Institution: Hoover Acquires the Collection of Oral Historian Griffin Fariello. “Interested in the history of political repression and resistance to abuses of power? The Hoover Institution Library & Archives has acquired an extensive collection of oral histories related to the Red Scare that were conducted by Bay Area author and Stanford alumnus Griffin Fariello.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/28/hoover-institution-hoover-acquires-the-collection-of-oral-historian-griffin-fariello/

Hoover Institution: Hoover Acquires the Collection of Oral Historian Griffin Fariello. “Interested in the history of political repression and resistance to abuses of power? The Hoover Institution Library & Archives has acquired an extensive collection of oral histories related to the Red Scare that were conducted by Bay Area author and Stanford alumnus Griffin Fariello.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/28/hoover-institution-hoover-acquires-the-collection-of-oral-historian-griffin-fariello/

Hoover Institution: Hoover Acquires the Collection of Oral Historian Griffin Fariello. “Interested in the history of political repression and resistance to abuses of power? The Hoover Institution Library & Archives has acquired an extensive collection of oral histories related to the Red Scare that were conducted by Bay Area author and Stanford alumnus Griffin Fariello.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/28/hoover-institution-hoover-acquires-the-collection-of-oral-historian-griffin-fariello/

La Voz de Lanzarote: Lanzarote promotes a sound archive to preserve the memory of its elders. “The Island Service of Historical Heritage of the Cabildo de Lanzarote is promoting the podcast project Tales of the Canary Grandparents, a proposal that seeks to preserve and disseminate the richness of the oral memory of the elders of Lanzarote and La Graciosa.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/18/la-voz-de-lanzarote-lanzarote-promotes-a-sound-archive-to-preserve-the-memory-of-its-elders/

The Guardian: British Asian families urged to share stories of ‘greatest generation’ who fought for Britain. “British Asian families are being urged to record the experiences of relatives who fought for Britain for ‘future generations’ as data reveals half the British public don’t know that Indian members of the armed forces served in the second world war.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/11/the-guardian-british-asian-families-urged-to-share-stories-of-greatest-generation-who-fought-for-britain/

2 News Nevada: Our Nevada Stories invites residents to share personal histories for statewide archive. “The initiative will create the first statewide oral history archive, preserving stories from people across Nevada as part of an audio time capsule featuring multiple generations and perspectives.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/08/2-news-nevada-our-nevada-stories-invites-residents-to-share-personal-histories-for-statewide-archive/

2 News Nevada: Our Nevada Stories invites residents to share personal histories for statewide archive. “The initiative will create the first statewide oral history archive, preserving stories from people across Nevada as part of an audio time capsule featuring multiple generations and perspectives.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/08/2-news-nevada-our-nevada-stories-invites-residents-to-share-personal-histories-for-statewide-archive/

2 News Nevada: Our Nevada Stories invites residents to share personal histories for statewide archive. “The initiative will create the first statewide oral history archive, preserving stories from people across Nevada as part of an audio time capsule featuring multiple generations and perspectives.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/08/2-news-nevada-our-nevada-stories-invites-residents-to-share-personal-histories-for-statewide-archive/

WAND: Illinois State Museum launches online database of 100 oral histories of Route 66. “The Illinois State Museum is launching an online database of 100 oral histories about Route 66. The Route 66 Oral History Project database includes video-recorded interviews and world-searchable written transcriptions.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/06/wand-illinois-state-museum-launches-online-database-of-100-oral-histories-of-route-66/

Remembering Mets-Yankees Subway Series 25 years later https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/399778/ #Baseball #DerekJeter #MikePiazza #MLB #NewYork #NewYorkMets #NewYorkYankees #NewYork #NewYorkYankees #OralHistories #Sports #SportsPlus #SubwaySeries #WorldSeries #Yankees

Remembering Mets-Yankees Subway Series 25 years later https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/399778/ #Baseball #DerekJeter #MikePiazza #MLB #NewYork #NewYorkMets #NewYorkYankees #NewYork #NewYorkYankees #OralHistories #Sports #SportsPlus #SubwaySeries #WorldSeries #Yankees

Washington University in St. Louis: Interviews from Unfinished Civil Rights Film Digitized. “The Film & Media Archive has just uploaded forty-two interviews from a never completed documentary on the history of the civil rights movement. Public media producer and documentarian Jack Willis worked on the film with former SNCC member Jean Wiley from 1978 to 1982. During that time, they interviewed […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/31/washington-university-in-st-louis-interviews-from-unfinished-civil-rights-film-digitized/

CBC: U of Winnipeg project aims to keep stories of Mennonite immigration to Canada in 1920 from disappearing. “Researchers at the University of Winnipeg are working on what they say will be the largest oral history project on Mennonites in the country, trying to capture stories of those who fled the Soviet Union in the 1920s before those stories are lost.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/25/cbc-u-of-winnipeg-project-aims-to-keep-stories-of-mennonite-immigration-to-canada-in-1920-from-disappearing/

CBC: U of Winnipeg project aims to keep stories of Mennonite immigration to Canada in 1920 from disappearing. “Researchers at the University of Winnipeg are working on what they say will be the largest oral history project on Mennonites in the country, trying to capture stories of those who fled the Soviet Union in the 1920s before those stories are lost.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/25/cbc-u-of-winnipeg-project-aims-to-keep-stories-of-mennonite-immigration-to-canada-in-1920-from-disappearing/

Fed Manager: Your Story Matters: Share Your Public Service Experience for History. “The Federal Employees and Contractors Oral History Project—an initiative by Organization of American Historians, with support from the Volcker Alliance—is seeking current and former federal employees and contractors to share their stories. Whether you’ve faced termination, contract cancellation, or other […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/13/your-story-matters-share-your-public-service-experience-for-history-fed-manager/

Digital Preservation at Cambridge: Floppy Disks, Forgotten Systems and Fragile Knowledge: Insights from the Retro Computing Community. “As part of the Future Nostalgia project, a series of interviews were conducted with members of the retro computing community. These conversations highlighted not only the deeply technical expertise of the interviewees, but also personal stories and experiences […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/10/floppy-disks-forgotten-systems-and-fragile-knowledge-insights-from-the-retro-computing-community-digital-preservation-at-cambridge/

University of Winnipeg: Oral history project promises to be largest completed with Mennonites in Canada. “Since January of this year, UWinnipeg associate history professor, Dr. Aileen Friesen, and UW alumna, Kate Moulden (BA 24), have conducted more than 50 interviews with children of Mennonite immigrants. ‘It’s approximately one interview every two days,’ Moulden said. Once completed, the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/03/university-of-winnipeg-oral-history-project-promises-to-be-largest-completed-with-mennonites-in-canada/

University of Winnipeg: Oral history project promises to be largest completed with Mennonites in Canada. “Since January of this year, UWinnipeg associate history professor, Dr. Aileen Friesen, and UW alumna, Kate Moulden (BA 24), have conducted more than 50 interviews with children of Mennonite immigrants. ‘It’s approximately one interview every two days,’ Moulden said. Once completed, the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/03/university-of-winnipeg-oral-history-project-promises-to-be-largest-completed-with-mennonites-in-canada/

Rice University: Rice students launch oral history archive to preserve Indigenous Texas stories. “Generations of silence are giving way to spoken truth through a new project at Rice University. In collaboration with the Texas Tribal Buffalo Project (TTBP), a nonprofit founded by Lipan Apache leader Lucille Contreras to restore Indigenous foodways and culture, Rice’s Weston Twardowski and a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/07/rice-university-rice-students-launch-oral-history-archive-to-preserve-indigenous-texas-stories/

Confederation of Service Charities: Pioneering female veterans of the WRAC continue to mark VE Day’s 80th anniversary by sharing their own stories for landmark new project. “As the UK marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day, a new project highlights the women who helped shape the British Army in the years that followed. On 22 May 2025, pioneering veterans of the Women’s Royal Army Corps […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/19/confederation-of-service-charities-pioneering-female-veterans-of-the-wrac-continue-to-mark-ve-days-80th-anniversary-by-sharing-their-own-stories-for-landmark-new-project/

Code4Lib: Distant Listening: Using Python and Apps Scripts to Text Mine and Tag Oral History Collections. “Designed for oral history project managers, the workflow empowers student workers to generate, modify, and expand subject tags during transcription editing, thereby enhancing the overall accuracy and discoverability of the collection. The paper details the workflow, surveys challenges […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/15/distant-listening-using-python-and-apps-scripts-to-text-mine-and-tag-oral-history-collections-code4lib/

#LGBTQ #History: The #Case for #OralHistories.

Without #AnitaCornwell’s own #memoirs and an #oralhistory #interview conducted for the #WilliamWayCenterArchives with #historian Dr. #MarcStein, there wouldn’t be an #understanding of what it was like to be a #Black #lesbian in the 1940s and 1950s.

#Women #Lesbians #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Pennsylvania #Philadelphia #History #Representation #Culture #BlackMastodon

https://epgn.com/2023/10/18/lgbtq-history-the-case-for-oral-histories/

The paperback of 'Foundations' is now available for pre-order! The release date is 15 June so pre-ordered Epub or Kindle versions will now arrive on the 15th. RRP $33 NZD ($20 USD). The paperback is currently available on Amazon and will be in other online retailers very soon! #memoir #history #colonialhistory #Frenchempire #foundations #newbook #author #writing #literarynonfiction #NewZealandHistory #AustralianHistory #colonialism #Auckland #familyhistory #oralhistories https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0473636891?tag=books2read02-20

#AveryDameGriff Is #Archiving the #Trans #Internet.

Part of Dame-Griff’s #research has entailed #archiving #trans #digital #community #sources and #recording #oralhistories with the #older #trans folks who #created and #moderated these #spaces.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Activism #History #Representation #Culture

https://www.autostraddle.com/avery-dame-griff-is-archiving-the-trans-internet/

#AveryDameGriff Is #Archiving the #Trans #Internet.

Part of Dame-Griff’s #research has entailed #archiving #trans #digital #community #sources and #recording #oralhistories with the #older #trans folks who #created and #moderated these #spaces.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Activism #History #Representation #Culture

https://www.autostraddle.com/avery-dame-griff-is-archiving-the-trans-internet/

#AveryDameGriff Is #Archiving the #Trans #Internet.

Part of Dame-Griff’s #research has entailed #archiving #trans #digital #community #sources and #recording #oralhistories with the #older #trans folks who #created and #moderated these #spaces.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Activism #History #Representation #Culture

https://www.autostraddle.com/avery-dame-griff-is-archiving-the-trans-internet/

#AveryDameGriff Is #Archiving the #Trans #Internet.

Part of Dame-Griff’s #research has entailed #archiving #trans #digital #community #sources and #recording #oralhistories with the #older #trans folks who #created and #moderated these #spaces.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Activism #History #Representation #Culture

https://www.autostraddle.com/avery-dame-griff-is-archiving-the-trans-internet/

#AveryDameGriff Is #Archiving the #Trans #Internet.

Part of Dame-Griff’s #research has entailed #archiving #trans #digital #community #sources and #recording #oralhistories with the #older #trans folks who #created and #moderated these #spaces.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Activism #History #Representation #Culture

https://www.autostraddle.com/avery-dame-griff-is-archiving-the-trans-internet/

New Voice of Ukraine: Ukraine’s war losses documented by Memorial Platform. “As Russia’s war against Ukraine rages into its third year, tens of thousands of lives — both military and civilian — have been lost. Behind the growing numbers are names, faces, families, and memories. For the Memorial Platform, an independent Ukrainian NGO, honoring those lives is a mission — and one now […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/01/new-voice-of-ukraine-ukraines-war-losses-documented-by-memorial-platform/

Malay Mail: Batang Kali landslide survivors reclaim their story with new website on fatal disaster. “The Batang Kali landslide on December 16, 2022, left an indelible mark on Malaysia’s history, claiming 31 lives — 13 of them children. One of the country’s deadliest landslides in recent years, the disaster underscored both nature’s destructive force and systemic vulnerabilities. What […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/29/malay-mail-batang-kali-landslide-survivors-reclaim-their-story-with-new-website-on-fatal-disaster/