Oral History Hotlist

Links to Outside Sources -- Extensive listing in many areas (genealogy, preservation, etc.) http://www.ohiohistory.org/links/links.html#hist

National Endowment for the Humanities http://www.neh.fed.us/

Ohio Bicentennial Commission http://www.ohio200.org/

Ohio Historical Society http://www.ohiohistory.org/

Ohio Humanities Council http://www.ohiohumanities.org/

Ohio Humanities Council Links (Links to councils from other states.) http://www.ohiohumanities.org/links/index.htm

Oral History Society http://www.oralhistory.org.uk

Heritage Preservation Tips on how to preserve documents and other primary sources. Some lesson plans. http://www.heritagepreservation.org/

Oral History Techniques and Procedures This is an entire book online. http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/oral.htm

Primary Sources and Activities Projects created by the National Archives and Record Administration http://www.archives.gov/

Save America's Treasures Dedicated to identifying and rescuing the enduring symbols of America's tradition. http://www.saveamericastreasures.org/

Southern oral history program How-To Gives interviewer guidelines and sample formats for field notes, tape labels, etc. http://www.unc.edu/depts/phe/oralhistorylinks.htm

Step-by-Step Guide to Oral History Is a textbook online http://www.dohistory.org/on_your_own/toolkit/oralHistory.html

American Bar Foundation Oral History Program Gives full transcripts and abstracts of the history of the American Bar Association http://www.abf-sociolegal.org/oralhistory/index.html

American Memory Historical Collections for the National Digital Library Library of Congress has given us this excellent public domain.resource. http://memory.loc.gov

American Notes: Travel in America 1750-1920 253 narratives about travel in America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/lhtnhtml/lhtnhome.html

American Roots Music A rich library of insight into the music and lives of the players by featuring complete transcripts of these interviews. http://www.pbs.org/americanrootsmusic/pbs_arm_oral_histories.html

Artists Archives of the Western Reserve Gives a brief bibliography of the artists from the Western Reserve area and shows samples of their artwork. www.artistsarchives.org

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1938 This site contains more than 2,300 first person accounts of slavery and 500 black and white photographs of former slaves. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/

Campfire Stories with George Catlin: An Encounter of Two Cultlure Uses art, artifacts, and primary source texts to bridge American history, geography, art appreciation, environmental conservation, and multicultural studies. http://catlinclassroom.si.edu/

Conversations with History Men and women from all over the world talk about their lives and work. http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/

Duke University Special Collections Library Offers a wide variety of primary source texts, many related to women of the Civil War, African-American women, the women's lib movement, etc. http://www.toptags.com/aama/

The Magpie Sings the Great Depression: Selections from DeWitt Clinton High School's Literary Magazine 1929-1942 Presents almost 200 poems, articles, and short stories and many graphics and photographs from The Magpie, literary magazine of Dewitt Clinton High School. http://newdeal.feri.org/magpie/

Mountain Voices Transcripts of testimonies given by people from mountain communities (Himalayan's, Andes, China and more!) http://www.mountainvoices.org/

North American Slave Narratives Series of narratives, pictures, and more http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/neh.html

Oral Histories Online Transcripts and photos are available dealing with the free speech movement. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/ohonline/unihist.html

Regional History Project The Regional History Project has been documenting the history of the Central Coast of California and the institutional history of UC Santa Cruz since 1963, through oral history. http://library.ucsc.edu/reg-hist/

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Has audio, video and text stories from the Jim Crow era. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/

Suffragists Oral History Project Online histories from the suffragist movement http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/ohonline/suffragists.html

Using Oral History Download Lesson You can listen to the voices of Women at Work in the 30 s, Dancing as Recreation and Americans and Automobiles http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/oralhist/oraldown.html

War Stories Journalists discuss what they've seen and heard in covering conflicts. http://www.newseum.org/warstories/index.htm

Youngstown State University Oral History Collection Collects and preserves first-person narratives of northeastern Ohioans who have participated in, or closely observed events which have significantly affected both the state and nation. http://www.maag.ysu.edu/oralhistory/oral_hist.html

Ancestors: Teacher's Guide Lots of lessons, ideas and templates for doing family history. http://www.kbyu.org/ancestors/teachersguide/episode3.html

Countdown to Millennium Was designed to teach middle and high school students how to use technology to preserve the history of their small communities. A CD and a study guide are available. http://frognet.net/countdown/

History Firsthand Primary Source Research in Elementary School Three lessons--Artifact Attributes, Archives and Appraisal and Searching Online Collections http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/97/firsthand/main.html

The Historian's Sources Teacher and Student lessons on primary sources http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/psources/pshome.html

Historical Treasure Chest This site gives a model for engaging students in an investigation of authentic material from the past. http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/treasure/

The Oral History Project for CNN's Cold War A student handout for a coldwar history in your community. http://turnerlearning.com/cnn/coldwar/oral_handout.html

Rounding the Bases: Race and Ethnicity in America Students use primary sources focused on baseball to explore the American experience regarding race and ethnicity. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/00/base/

Using Oral History Download Lesson You can listen to the voices of Women at Work in the 30 s, Dancing as Recreation and Americans and Automobiles http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/oralhist/oraldown.html

Voices from the Past A WebQuest about doing an oral history project http://oldsegundo.com/webquests/voices_from_past/student-home.htm

Digital Classroom Provides material from the National Archives including reproducible primary documents and curriculum units. http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/index.html

Turn of the Century Child Places middle school students in the role of historians using primary sources from the American Memory Collection. http://nuevaschool.org/~debbie/library/cur/20c/turn.html

Using Primary Sources in the Classroom http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/primary.html