Links Page
The following list includes links to associations and organizations interested in oral histories, life histories, life stories and the like. This list was compiled by a number of individuals, including Beth Harris, Special Collections Management Librarian at Hollins University.
1. The Oral History Association, Dickinson College
2. Oral History Discussion Group
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~oralhist/
3. Chicago Architects Oral History Project
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/dept_architecture/oralhistory.html
4. The Library of Congress's American Memory page
Has some transcripts and selected recordings from the Works Progress Administration's (WPA's) interviews during the 1930s. They are well introduced on the page as well and fully searchable.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
5. The Truman Library
Over 100 oral histories available on line.
6. Oral History Program of the National Cable Television Center and Museum.
http://www.cablecenter.org (click on "collections" on left hand side and select "oral histories")
7. University of California Bancroft Library
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/ohonline/ (maintains on-line oral histories)
8. Vietnam Center at Texas Tech University
http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/oralhistory (has many oral histories including transcripts and sound files)
9. Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10. Center for Narrative Studies, Washington DC
11. Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University
http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/excerpts/index.htm
12. Japanese American National Museum
http://www.janm.org/lifehist/ (has oral history transcripts on-line)
13. University of Toledo
Digital exhibit that includes oral histories and transcripts of two employees of a metal stamping plant.
http://www.attic.utoledo.edu/att00/acklin/oral.html
14. University of Southern Mississippi
63 oral history transcripts about Civil Rights Movement.
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda/oh/
15. I Witness to History: the Online Library of Our Lives
A program of the Cramer Reed Center for Successful Aging. Has oral histories on a variety of topics, including a section called "wars."
http://www.iwitnesstohistory.org
16. Oral History Collection at Ashland University Archives, Ashland, OH
Includes several interviews on immigrants to the United States as well as university administrators. Click on on-line exhibits, then scroll down to Oral History Page.
17. Naval Historical Center
Navy Women http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq48-1.htm
USS Indianapolis http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq30-1.htm
Navy Nurses http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq50-1.htm
Pearl Harbor http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq66-1.htm
18. Weaving Women's Words
A project of oral histories of 60 Jewish women over the age of 75 from Baltimore and Seattle.
http://www.jwa.org/jwa/2004fram.htm