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Sub-types: Oral histories (audio files) (53), Music (audio files) (24), Oral histories (1), Recordings (1)Oral histories (audio files)Back to Top
In 1861 Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) became the United States' sixteenth president. But before Lincoln became the nation's chief executive, he led a fascinating life that sheds considerable light upon ...
Since 2000, high school students at Rome Free Academy in Rome, NY have interviewed over 120 veterans from World War II to the present as part of an elective class on World Wars of the 20th Century. ...
The Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive is an Internet-accessible, fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare and unique library and archival resources on race relations in ...
Heritage Colorado - Digital Treasures of the West is a database that brings to the people of Colorado the special collections and unique resources of Colorado's archives, historical societies, ...
The initial goal of The HistoryMakers is to complete 5,000 interviews of both well-known and unsung African American HistoryMakers within the next five years, creating an archive of unparalleled ...
The Archives of Cajun and Creole Folklore, housed by the Center for Louisiana Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Begun in 1974, the collection is the most comprehensive repository of ...
During the nineteenth century Illinois underwent an incredible transformation as it developed from a sparsely settled frontier region into a dynamic, prosperous, rural-urban state that exerted ...
Integration and the Black Experience at LSU is a unique collection that includes audio files and transcripts from interviews conducted from 1985 to 1998 of black students, faculty, and administrators ...
The Baby Boom America Collection provides a unique look at the lifestyles, challenges and triumphs of the turbulent post-World War II period. Artifacts include photographs, newspaper articles, oral ...
Claudia Chow's Banana is an interactive look at the Lees, a Chinese-American family attempting to balance Chinese traditions and Western culture.
Beginning in the late 1980s, Minnesota’s population has been augmented by successive waves of immigration – especially from Asia and East Africa. The Minnesota Immigrant Oral Histories Online ...
Collection consists of papers of, about, and collected by Ralph J. Bunche and later used by his colleague and biographer, Brian Urquhart. Includes manuscripts, his notebooks, project files, audiotape ...
The Natchitoches / Cane River Civil rights Oral History Project is part of the Louisiana State Museum's Civil Rights Oral History Collection and features interviews with leading civil rights activists ...
"Oklahoma Crossroads: Documents and Images" of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries consists of major digital collections such as online exhibits and collaborative projects. Collections include ...
"Oral Histories of the American South" is a three-year project to select, digitize and make available 500 oral history interviews gathered by the Southern Oral History Program (SOHP). These 500 are ...
In 1975 a project to commemorate the American Revolution Bicentennial was undertaken by the Centralia Public Library. The result is this collection of oral histories created by local residents who ...
Oral Histories of Gila County is a compilation of interviews commemorating Arizona's first 100 years of Statehood. It was made possible by partial funding by an Arizona State Library LSTA Grant. The ...
This audio collection consists of snippets from interviews with residents who lived in and around the White Mountains area. The 1977 interviews were part of a Northland Pioneer College project to ...
The Arizona Historical Foundation houses two collections pertaining to Arizona's two World War II Japanese Relocation Camps, Gila River and Poston. Wade Head served as director of the Poston camp from ...
The Charles Babbage Institute is home to the historical archives of the Burroughs Corporation, once the nation's largest manufacturer of adding machines and, later, a major computer company. The ...
The Raid on Deerfield: Many Stories of 1704 recounts this event in eight scenes with a prologue and an epilogue. Each scene is described from the perspectives of the cultures that were present.
This project seeks to document and represent the rapid and far-reaching social effects of railroads and to explore the transformation of the United States to modern ideas, institutions, and practices ...
The theme of this collection is the unique history and culture of Southeastern Arizona. The centerpiece of the collection is a video created by the Cochise College Library media department that ...
The topics represented in this selection from Northern Arizona University Cline Library include: Colorado River running, surveying, and exploration; Grand Canyon hiking and tourism; railroad and ...
The story of the Columbia River Basin's ethnic groups has been relatively hidden, and museums, libraries, and scholars have only just begun to gather the records, images, recollections, and artifacts ...
This collection contains WWI Photographs, WWII Photographs, WWII POW Camp 1943 to 1946, and WWII POW Oral History Project from Weber State University.
Digital Past is a local history digitization program undertaken by libraries, historical societies, museums, and other cultural venues in Illinois in partnership with the North Suburban Library System ...
The Find-It! Illinois Program is the Illinois State Library's initiative to establish and administer a statewide digital library. Key components include the Illinois Government Information (IGI) ...
In the summer of 1985 a team of folklife specialists (folklorists, architectural historians, & historians) from the Library of Congress and Utah spent a couple of weeks living in Grouse Creek, ...
From 1803-1806, in an exciting journey to the Pacific Ocean and back, Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery mapped the lands, described the natural wonders, and encountered the people of western North ...
Cache Valley, Utah is home to a rich and varied Latino population whose voice is often underrepresented in local repositories. To rectify this, in the summer/fall 2007 Utah State University's Special ...
Through the collaborative efforts of Long Island archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, and organizations, the people of Long Island will have access to the visual and oral record of Long ...
Louisiana Gumbo: A Recipe for Empowerment will give educators ...
The Louisiana State Museum is actively collecting artifacts and oral histories related to the impact of the destruction wrought by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in Louisiana and the importance of ...
The Maine Memory Network is a statewide database of electronic versions of Maine's Historical Documents, contributed by cultural institutions from around the state, from their own locations.
The Making of Modern Michigan is a collaborative project involving more than 50 Michigan libraries and other organizations. It includes local history materials from communities around the state. ...
The "Montana Memory Project" is a collection of digital collections and items relating to Montana's cultural heritage. In part, these collections and items will document the Montana experience. Access ...
The Nevada Test Site Oral History Project at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is a comprehensive program dedicated to documenting, preserving and disseminating the remembered past of persons ...
The New Jersey Digital Highway (NJDH) is a new way to explore our history and culture. The Highway will bring together digitized versions of historical and cultural treasures from our libraries, ...
"The North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940" is a collection that tells the story of the Tar Heel State as seen through representative histories, descriptive accounts, institutional reports, ...
The North Country Digital History projects represents the opportunity for researchers to gain immediate digital access to important collections housed in libraries, archives, historical document ...
The Object of History is a cooperative project between the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and George Mason University's Center for History and New Media. The project was conceived ...
Northwestern Olympic Peninsula communities and The University of Washington are working together to create a Web-based museum to showcase aspects of the rich history and culture of the region. This ...
The Oral History of Illinois Agriculture project is developing a new interactive Web module - the Audio-Video Barn - featuring digital oral-history interviews with people involved in various aspects ...
The Sharlot Hall Museum Oral History collection represents a cross-section of our larger collection of interviews, presentations, speeches and radio programs conducted mainly in Prescott, Arizona from ...
Using ideas of place and space as organizing principles, Southern Spaces is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that employs emerging technologies to produce innovative scholarship about the ...
In spring of 2006, the LSU Libraries' featured some of its greatest treasures in an exhibition at Hill Memorial Library titled, 'Special Delivery: A Showcase of LSU Libraries Special Collections.' ...
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of UNO, the Earl K. Long Library Oral History committee conducted audio and videotaped interviews with University professors, administrators, and ...
An online multimedia museum collection featuring oral history recordings and historic photographs that document life on the Colorado Plateau. The collection is divided into three sections: People, ...
The Walt Whitman Archive is a dynamic site devoted to Whitman's poetry, published works, manuscripts, and life.
The Willa Cather Archive is an ambitious endeavor to create a rich, useful, and widely-accessible site for the study of Willa Cather's life and writings. To that end, we are providing digital editions ...
This website is a historical photographic exhibition related to the early history of Las Vegas, Nevada. This newly-revised digital project currently contains six galleries: The Cottages, The Depot, ...
A gubernatorial project featuring biographies, photographs, archival finding aids, state-of-the-state addresses, and much more relating to the administrations of Charles Haskell (1907-1911) through ...
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In 1861 Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) became the United States' sixteenth president. But before Lincoln became the nation's chief executive, he led a fascinating life that sheds considerable light upon ...
The Archives of Cajun and Creole Folklore, housed by the Center for Louisiana Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Begun in 1974, the collection is the most comprehensive repository of ...
This multimedia web site is part of an 18-month project to catalog, digitize, and preserve every item in Indiana University’s extensive collections pertaining to the life and career of master ...
"Oklahoma Crossroads: Documents and Images" of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries consists of major digital collections such as online exhibits and collaborative projects. Collections include ...
The Raid on Deerfield: Many Stories of 1704 recounts this event in eight scenes with a prologue and an epilogue. Each scene is described from the perspectives of the cultures that were present.
Digital collection of over 6,000 cylinder records from 1895-1920s with downloadable and streaming audio held by the Department of Special Collection, University of California, Santa Barbara. ...
The Florida Folklife Collection includes approximately 150 cubic feet of administrative, survey and fieldwork files and tens of thousands of audio and video recordings dating from the 1930s through ...
Getting the Message Out! National Political Campaign Materials, 1840-1860 presents an examination of national popular political culture in antebellum America. It includes histories of the presidential ...
The records of the YMCA of the USA, founded in 1851, and its various committees, programs, and constituent bodies, form the core of the Kautz Family YMCA Archives. In addition to personal papers of ...
Through the collaborative efforts of Long Island archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, and organizations, the people of Long Island will have access to the visual and oral record of Long ...
Louisiana Gumbo: A Recipe for Empowerment will give educators ...
The Louisiana State Museum Digital Library Jazz collection is composed of photographs, audio recordings and musical instruments from the collections of the Louisiana State Museum. Primarily dealing ...
The Maine Memory Network is a statewide database of electronic versions of Maine's Historical Documents, contributed by cultural institutions from around the state, from their own locations.
This web site will provide a fully searchable and indexed digital library of Samuel Clemens'Mississippi novels and reminiscences (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Life ...
Nebraska Memories, a cooperative project to digitize Nebraska-related historical and cultural heritage materials and make them freely available to researchers of all ages via the Internet, is brought ...
The New Jersey Digital Highway (NJDH) is a new way to explore our history and culture. The Highway will bring together digitized versions of historical and cultural treasures from our libraries, ...
"The North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940" is a collection that tells the story of the Tar Heel State as seen through representative histories, descriptive accounts, institutional reports, ...
The Object of History is a cooperative project between the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and George Mason University's Center for History and New Media. The project was conceived ...
Northwestern Olympic Peninsula communities and The University of Washington are working together to create a Web-based museum to showcase aspects of the rich history and culture of the region. This ...
The Oral History of Illinois Agriculture project is developing a new interactive Web module - the Audio-Video Barn - featuring digital oral-history interviews with people involved in various aspects ...
The Maryland Historical Society is proud to host the definitive collection of jazz-pioneer Eubie Blake. Blake, born in Baltimore in the 1880s, went on to become one of the most popular ragtime ...
Using ideas of place and space as organizing principles, Southern Spaces is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that employs emerging technologies to produce innovative scholarship about the ...
This collection depicts the story of Thunderbird Field I, a vital World War II air training base at which more than 10,000 pilots learned to fly. The collection then shows the early years of the ...
A gubernatorial project featuring biographies, photographs, archival finding aids, state-of-the-state addresses, and much more relating to the administrations of Charles Haskell (1907-1911) through ...
Oral historiesBack to Top
The story of the Columbia River Basin's ethnic groups has been relatively hidden, and museums, libraries, and scholars have only just begun to gather the records, images, recollections, and artifacts ...
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The Woodberry Poetry Room, named in honor of Harvard alumnus and Professor George E. Woodberry (A.B., 1877), opened in 1931 in Widener Library for the purpose of bringing alive the poet's voice and ...