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- African American Heritage Project, Nacogdoches: http://www.sfasu.edu/heritagecenter/422.asp (oral histories and transcripts done by your predecessors for this course two summers ago).
- American Century Project - Includes interviews and instructional materials. http://www.doingoralhistory.org/
- American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology - Includes a rare interview by Hermond Norwood of former slave Fountain Hughes conducted in Baltimore, Maryland, June 11, 1949. Hughes was born in 1848. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html
- "Been Here So Long": Selections from the WPA Slave Narratives - Selections from WPA narratives, bibliographies, links, and teaching guides. http://newdeal.feri.org/asn/index.htm
- Free Speech Movement - Student Protest - U.C. Berkeley, 1964 - 1965. Includes searchable oral history transcripts online, documents, video and sound recordings, bibliographies, and more. A co-operative project between the Bancroft Library of the University of California at Berkeley and the Free Speech Movement Archives. http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/FSM/
- Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World - Created by Dr. James Leloudis and Dr. Kathryn Walbert as part of the American Historical Association's program Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age. The website includes interview selections from hundreds of interviews with working-class Southerners used by the six authors of the book Like a Family (1987, 2000). The interviews were originally conducted by the Southern Oral History Program in the Piedmont Industrialization Project of the late 1970s and early 1980s. http://www.ibiblio.org/sohp/laf/index.html
- "May 4th Oral History Project 2000" (Kent State) - The Kent State Shootings Oral History Project collects and provides access to personal accounts of the May 4, 1970, shootings and their aftermath. http://www.library.kent.edu/page/13894
- Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II - This is a text only, extensive collection of oral histories pertaining to World War II. http://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/
- Telling Their Stories - Includes High school students at the Urban School of San Francisco who conduct and film interviews with Bay Area Holocaust survivors in their homes. http://www.tellingstories.org/
- Studs Terkel Interviews - This website is based on a collection of the interviews Terkel conducted for his books and his radio program. http://www.studsterkel.org/
- T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History - The mission of the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History is to collect and preserve, through the use of recorded interviews, unique and valuable information about Louisiana history that exists only in people's memories and would otherwise be lost. They accomplish this through interviews conducted by center staff, paid interviewers and volunteers, and by encouraging and assisting those who wish to carry out their own oral history projects. http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/williams/search.html
- The Suffragists Oral History Project (transcripts only) - These interviews were conducted in the 1970s under the auspices of the Bancroft Library's Regional Oral History Office with twelve leaders and participants in the woman's suffrage movement. http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/projects/suffragist/
- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Website with Oral Histories - Oral histories documenting the experiences of three fire survivors are available as sound recordings. Sigmund Arywitz, California State Commissioner of Labor, conducted the oral history interviews in California. http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/audio/default.html
- U.S. Senate Oral History Project - The Senate Historical Office under Association Historian Donald A. Ritchie interviews former Senators, Senate officers, and staff. The project is beginning to make full interviews available online from its collection.
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/g_three_sections_with_teasers/oralhistory.htm - Voice/Vision - Holocaust Survivor Oral Histories - This is Dr. Sid Bolkosky's collection of interviews with Nazi Holocaust survivors. Bolkosky is Professor of History at the University of Michigan - Dearborn and has interviewed over 150 survivors (over 330 hours of recordings). Some of these recordings are available online as Adobe Acrobat file with audio links. http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/
- Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection - This is an online presentation of an ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941. The collection includes an extensive audio archive of interviews. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/toddbibperformerindex.html
Other Sites *(not Verified or Perused)*
- "Lyndon Baines Johnson Library & Museum" http://www.lbilib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/biopage.asp
- "Southern Oral History Program" http://www.unc.edu/depts/sohp/sohp.html
- "Kellytown Oral History" http://minticello.avenue.gen.va.us/Community/Neighborhoods/Kellytown/History
- "US History Immigration Theme" http://www.davison.k12.mi.us/academic/immpage.htm
- "Using Primary Sources in the Classroom: Civil Rights Movement Unit" http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/rights.html
- "United States History Lesson Plans" http://www.orangeschools.org/ohs/teacher/TJordan/Pages/lessonsii.html
- "DiscoverySchool.com" http://school.discovery.com/schoolhome.html
- "National Archives and Records Administration - Primary Sources for the Classroom" http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching
- "The History Place" http://www.historyplace.com