- EyeWitness to History
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Offers historic personal narratives and other first-hand sources from ancient history to the 20th century.
www.eyewitnesstohistory.com
- StoryCorps
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National project to instruct and inspire people to record each others' stories in sound. Includes a question generator, information on StoryBooths, and audio excerpts.
www.storycorps.net
- Mountain Voices
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Oral testimonies from mountain and highland regions around the world. Allowing people in developing and impoverished regions to offer their personal perspectives.
www.mountainvoices.org
- Historical Voices
Database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century.
www.historicalvoices.org
- 20 Voices
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Sharing the tales of 20 survivors of the 1915 Armenian genocide. Online companion to the documentary "The Genocide in Me."
www.twentyvoices.com
- Rutgers Oral History Archives
Records the personal experiences of the men and women who served on the homefront and overseas during World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War.
fas-history.rutgers.edu/oralhistory/orlhom.htm
- Oral History Questions
List from the Gene Pool.
www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/oralhist.htm
- Conversations With History
Distinguished men and women from all over the world talk about their lives and their work, in unedited text and video formats.
globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations
- 1968: The Whole World Was Watching
Includes audio files, transcripts, and edited stories from 30 interviews conducted by high school students around recollections of the events of 1968.
www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968
- Voice of Hibakusha
Text of video taped interviews with survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima.
www.inicom.com/hibakusha
- Local Heroes
Interviews of World War II veterans from the Bayside area of Melbourne Australia.
www.localheroes.8m.com
- Oral History Review, The
Official publication of the Oral History Association.
www.historycooperative.org/ohrindex.html
- War on Their Minds: Memories of the WWII Years
Wayland High School history project in which students interviewed local WWII veterans.
www.whshistoryproject.org
- Oral History on Science, Space, and Technology
Online catalog of the contents of oral history projects conducted between 1981 and 1990.
www.nasm.si.edu/research/dsh/ohp-introduction.html
- Justin Oral History Center
Providing both an avenue to learn the stories of those who have lived history and the opportunity to tell your own.
members.aol.com/famjustin/oral.html
- BBC Four: A-Z Interviews
Brief audio excerpts culled from the BBC's archives.
www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/index.shtml
- Life After the Holocaust
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Stories of Holocaust survivors after the war. From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/life_after_holocaust
- H-Oralhist
Network for scholars and professionals active in studies related to oral history.
www2.h-net.msu.edu/~oralhist
- National Museum of the American Indian: Living Voices
Audio series in English and Spanish reflecting with wide range of Native American and Native Hawaiian experiences in Canada, Mexico, Panama, and the U.S.
www.nmai.si.edu/livingvoices
- Days of Infamy: December 7 and 9/11
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American Radioworks presents the recorded voices of ordinary Americans as they reacted to two deadly surprise attacks against the United States: Japan's assault on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/daysofinfamy
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