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Bringing Life to History: Oral History Repositories and Projects

Creating oral history and living history programs

Large Project Repositories

StoryCorps
Veterans History Project (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
Pass the Word (Kentucky Oral History Commission)
A discovery tool for a collection of over 100 oral history projects in Kentucky.
University of Kentucky Louis B. Nunn Center for Oral History
Columbia Center fo Oral History (Columbia University)
Baylor University Institute for Oral History

Methodist Projects

United Methodist Archival Collections
Search the Finding Aids for the GCAH and Drew University Methodist collections using the keywords "oral history" or "transcription" to locate oral history materials.
Galloway United Methodist Church, Jackson, MS
Transcriptions only
First United Methodist Church, Boulder, CO
Archived by the Maria Rogers Oral History Program at Boulder Public Library

Narrative Projects

Goin' North: Stories from the First Great Migration to Philadelphia
An online exhibit featuring oral histories.
May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970
A filmed play based on oral histories of the 1970 Kent State shootings.
New Roots: Voices from Carolina del Norte!
Experiences of Latino migrants in North Carolina
Freedom Summer Digital Archive
Miami University of Ohio