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Utah Historical Society: Introducing our newest oral history grants cohort. “Through support from Utah Humanities and the Utah Historical Society, the oral history grant provides funding to collect and transcribe interviews and share the content with local communities through public programming. This quarter, the organizations awarded funding to six state history projects.”

Duke University Libraries: Wesley Hogan on preserving young people’s voices in the historical record. “Dr. Wesley Hogan, is a Research Professor at the Franklin Humanities Institute and Department of History. Dr. Hogan has published the Youth Activists Oral Histories Collection within the Duke Research Data Repository (RDR). These oral histories were collected as part of Dr. Hogan’s Fall […]

Indiana Landmarks: Indiana Landmarks makes more than 100 Black Hoosier oral histories available. “More than 100 oral history interviews documenting the experiences, memories, and community histories of Black Hoosiers are now accessible through the Indiana Landmarks Black Heritage Preservation Program’s growing digital oral history collection.”

Charles F Kettering Foundation: In the Moment: Oral History as a Democratic Resource. “…the Kettering Foundation’s Democracy and the Arts focus area is partnering with OurStoryBridge to create the Democracy & the Arts oral history collection. These stories are from people experiencing challenges imposed by current efforts to limit free speech and creative expression in the arts and […]

Virginia Commonwealth University: Latino Virginia oral history project to get wider audience. “On Saturday, VCU’s Migration Studies Lab, part of the Humanities Research Center, is presenting the Migration Studies Research Symposium, a daylong event at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture. The program includes a preview of Latino Virginia, which has conducted more than 100 interviews so […]

The oral history of the 2006 Saints Domecoming game https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/1010440/ #DeuceMcAllister #FletcherMackel #Football #JeffDuncan #MikeTirico #MondayNightFootball #NewOrleansSaints #OralHistories #RomanHarper #SuzyKolber #TimFletcher

LAist: An oral history project captures stories in and around K-Town. Now anyone can dive in. “Lauren Kim works alongside her father, Hanjik, at his traditional medicine clinic on the border of Koreatown and MacArthur Park. But it took an oral history interview for her to hear parts of his story for the first time…. Now that interview, along with hundreds of others about life in and around […]

Library of Congress: Library Makes Nearly 500 First-Hand 9/11 Responder Accounts Available Online. “The Library of Congress has launched an online collection of nearly 500 first-hand accounts from 9/11 responders to mark the 25th anniversary of the World Trade Center attack. Housed in the American Folklife Center, the collection includes 484 full-length video interviews conducted between April […]

University of Minnesota: What does it look like to create an ethical visual archive that’s truly accountable to the community it documents?. “Ethical documentary work cannot begin with cameras or interview questions; it begins with listening, trust, and understanding a community’s priorities. I learned this lesson while interning with Soomaal House of Art, a Minnesota-based Somali artists […]

BalkanInsight: ‘This Is How We Lived Here’: Documenting 16 Years in Hungary Under Orban. “Essentially an oral history archive, the husband-and-wife team are currently conducting personal interviews with people who have registered to share their stories. It’s a meticulous exercise. So far, they have received more than 240 submissions and conducted 54 interviews, but their target is at […]

BBC: Shipbuilding archive aims to preserve memories. “…people across north-east England have been asked to sit down with loved ones who once worked in the shipyards to contribute to the Shipyard Heritage Museum’s online living archive. The archive is open to stories from the rivers Tyne, Wear and Tees.”

DNE Africa: US Awards $125,000 to Preserve Ancient Nigerian Iron-Smelting Site. “The United States has awarded a $125,000 grant to help preserve and digitally document an ancient iron-smelting site in Nigeria’s southeastern Enugu state, the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria said on Monday. The United States has awarded a $125,000 grant to help preserve and digitally document an ancient iron-smelting […]

Maui News: UH oral history center receives $538K for Maui projects. “Four grants totaling $538,000 will support University of Hawaii projects recording dozens of oral histories about Lahaina, water, women’s history and the Lahaina Jodo Mission. Researchers say documenting residents’ experiences, cultural knowledge and memories will help preserve Maui’s history for future generations and […]

University of Hawaii: Preserving Maui’s stories: UH Center for Oral History lands $538K in new funding. “A surge of new funding is highlighting the critical mission of one of Hawaiʻi’s most significant digital archives. Multiple grants are flowing into the College of Social Sciences’ Center for Oral History (COH) in recognition of its vital work to preserve the history, voices and […]

University of Kentucky: Making history accessible: Doug Boyd’s CURATE research. “‘Oral history is one of the greatest documents that can be created,’ said Doug Boyd, Ph.D., director of the University of Kentucky Libraries Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History. ‘It puts individuals on the historical record, and that is really a remarkable thing.’ Boyd has been reimagining how those historical […]

Meredith College: Meredith Student’s Summer Project Expands N.C. Women’s Oral History Collection. “History major Kaysha Kovadia spent her summer expanding the North Carolina Women’s Oral History Collection by interviewing women from the Triangle’s South Asian community. The North Carolina Women’s Oral History Collection is a collaboration of Meredith’s history program and Carlyle […]

RTE: ‘The human side’ – project gathers tales from Dublin Port. “Joseph Jones, who began working in the docks of Dublin in 1939, reminiscing and recounting tales from another era, is just one of the Dublin Port workers from down the years who have shared their stories for an oral history project.”

Spectrum Local News: Student journalists create oral archive after Texas Hill Country floods. “From Texas to California, recent natural disasters have taken a toll on communities. As recovery continues, teens are documenting people’s stories. ‘These kids have come from all over our country and our state, just to help change the story here,’ said student journalist Hayden Magnell. She attends […]

Capital B News: Why We’re Building a Black Oral History Archive. “For the Record: A Black Oral History Archive is a collection of over 100 firsthand stories from Black Americans across regions, generations, and identities. Since last year, our reporters and partners have been gathering recollections from Black people that paint a vivid picture of resistance, resilience, invention, and […]

Amanda Quraishi: Announcing the Launch of the 84000 Doors Oral History Project. “Last year I announced that I’d been accepted to a fellowship program housed at The Institute for Diversity & Civic Culture where I’d be doing an oral history project featuring the lived experiences of Texas Buddhists. I named it ‘84000 Doors’ after the Buddhist concept that there are infinite entry points to […]

Infoclio.ch: New digital archive: Oral Histories of Feminist Theory. “The project «The Many Futures of Gender. Oral Histories of Feminist Theory» documents conversations with protagonists who had and have a formative influence on feminist theories. The interviews also include conversations with prominent historians, such as Joan Wallach Scott and Londa Schiebinger.”

Blue Ridge Public Radio: Black Oral Histories of Beaufort County project is preserving the past before it slips away. “For decades, the lived experiences of Black people in rural communities like Washington, Belhaven, and Blounts Creek went largely unrecorded. But a local initiative, launched by the non-profit Odyssey for Democracy and backed by North Carolina Humanities, is changing that.”

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

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 […]

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 […]

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