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Events > Oral
History Workshop
CREATING AND USING ORAL HISTORY IN THE CLASSROOM
The Teagle Special Collections Project /
Workshop One
Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University
October 22, 2005
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Useful Websites
for Oral Historians
Compiled by Libby Van Cleve
Oral History, American Music Project (OHAM)
1. The Oral History Association, established
in 1966, seeks to bring together all persons interested
in oral history
as a way of collecting human memories. With an international
membership, the OHA serves a broad and diverse audience.
Local historians, librarians and archivists, students,
journalists, teachers, and academic scholars from many
fields have found that the OHA provides both professional
guidance and collegial environment for sharing information.
http://omega.dickinson.edu/organizations/oha/
2. H-Oralhist is a member of the H-Net,
Humanities & Social
Sciences On-line initiative. H-Oralhist is a network for
scholars and professionals active in studies related to oral
history. It is affiliated with the Oral History Association.
The Web site provides access to numerous tools useful in
creating oral histories as well as a discussion forum.
http://www.h-net.org/~oralhist/
3. Baylor University Oral History
Workshop. This introduction
to oral history answers the questions: What is oral history?
What ethical and legal considerations apply to oral history
research? What equipment do I need? How do I conduct an interview?
What can I do to preserve and share the interview once it
is recorded?
http://www.baylor.edu/oral_history/index.php?id=23560
4. The Regional UC Berkeley Oral
History Office's Web site includes a one-minute guide, tips for interviewers, and extensive
bibliography and links. The Regional Oral History Office
is a research program of the University of California, Berkeley,
working within The Bancroft Library. ROHO conducts, teaches,
analyzes, and archives oral and video history documents in
a broad variety of subject areas critical to the history
of California and the United States. ROHO provides a forum
for students and scholars working with oral sources to deepen
the quality of their research and to engage with the theory,
methodology, and meaning of individual testimony and social
memory.
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/1minute.html
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/rohotips.html
5. Do-it-Yourself Oral History Primer (tips from the Marine
Corps). This site provides a clear listing of basics for
conducting oral history interviews.
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/usmc/oral_hist_primer.htm
6. Columbia University Oral History
Research Office. This
office is the oldest and largest organized oral history program
in the world. Founded in 1948 by Pulitzer Prize winning historian
Allan Nevins, the oral history collection now contains nearly
8,000 taped memoirs, and nearly 1,000,000 pages of transcript.
A wealth of resources and services is described here.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/oral/
7. Yale's Oral History, American
Music (OHAM) is the only
ongoing project in the field of music dedicated to the collection
and preservation of oral and video memoirs in the voices
of the creative musicians of our century. It is a special
kind of history, one that captures sights and sounds and
recreates the spontaneity of a moment in time.
http://www.yale.edu/oham
8. The New Haven Oral History Project records interviews
about New Haven's past. The Project pursues interrelated
archival, scholarly, and community goals. Through the New
Haven Oral History Project Collection at the Yale University
Library, the Project ensures that the valuable primary source
material created by oral history interviewing is preserved
according to the highest professional standards, and made
readily available to the public. The Project also pursues
a scholarly agenda of producing oral history-based original
research about New Haven.
http://www.yale.edu/nhohp/about.html
9. The Naropa University Archive
Project enters 2005 with
over one thousand hours of recordings digitized. Access to
three hundred hours of the collection is available online.
The archive project's partnership with the Internet Archive
marks a significant step toward realizing its mission of
enhancing appreciation of post-World War Two literature and
its role in cultural criticism and social change.
http://www.naropa.edu/audioarchive
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