PARTNERS

Department of History, Arts and Libraries (HAL), Lansing, Michigan.
URL:  http://www.michigan.gov/hal

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.
URL:  http://www.h-net.org/~oralhist/

Oral History Association.
URL: http://alpha.dickinson.edu/organizations/oha/


ORAL HISTORY CENTERS AND COLLECTIONS

American Airpower Heritage Museum,Oral History Program Midland, TX .
They will send you an oral history kit.
URL: http://www.airpowermuseum.org/

American Memory from the Library of Congress contains primary source
materials on American culture and history. Contributions of the Library of
Congress to the National Digital Library. Collection includes prints & photos,
documents, motion pictures, and sound recordings. Most sources are in the
public domain. Includes a search function.
URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov.ammem/ammemhome.html

Baylor University Institute for Oral History, practicing professional oral
history since 1970, offers useful oral history instruction through its Workshop on
the Web, including an introduction to the basics of interviewing, tips for collecting
family oral histories, and the Baylor University Transcribing Style Guide.
Abstracts of Baylor's oral history collection are provided in the web versions of
the Institute's Guide to the Collection. The abstracts are searchable.
URL: http://www.baylor.edu/oral_history/

British Library National Sound Archive--Curator Rob Perks, London,
England. Under Collections, choose SOUND ARCHIVE.
URL: http://www.bl.uk

California State University Long Beach - Oral History Program.  Sherna
Berger Gluck, Program Director. Oral History at CSULB is an instructional
program offering students an enhanced knowledge of the techniques and
methodologies of oral information gathering and its uses in teaching and
research. It also serves as an oral history resource for educational and
community groups.
URL: http://www.csulb.edu/colleges/cla/departments/history/programs/oral/oral01.html

Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University resources for
photographers, writers, filmmakers, scholars of history and literature, teachers,
students, and others who struggle to participate in the lives of individuals and
communities and to render these lives in documentary works of artistic, literary,
and social value.
URL: http://cds.aas.duke.edu/

Columbia University Oral History Research Office: Guide to collection of
video and oral interviews, with telnet link to library.
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/oral/

CMC collections in living history at the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
URL: http://www.civilization.ca/

Georgia Government Documentation Project, GSU Special Collections
documents the state's political heritage through oral history interviews and
collections of associated papers. The GGDP collection includes more than 250
interviews with former governors, legislators, women in politics, African
American political activists and leaders, journalists, and numerous other public
figures. In addition to the interviews generated by the project, the GGDP actively
collects interviews conducted by other scholars of Georgia politics. The Project
Director is Clifford M. Kuhn, mailto:hiscmk@gsusgi2.gsu.edu
URL:  http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/ggdp/index.htm

Indiana University Oral History Research Center.  Overview of collections at
the University of Indiana, most of local history, some wider projects.
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~cshm

The Institute of Oral History at the University of Texas El Paso.
URL: http://www.dmc.utep.edu/oralh

Louisiana State University T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History
The Williams Center collects interviews on Louisiana's history, politics, and
culture.  Notable in its oral history collections are ongoing projects relating to
Louisiana politics, the history of LSU, Louisiana veterans (mostly WWII), and
African American history with a special focus on the civil rights movement.
URL:  http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/williams/

Michigan State University, MATRIX: The Center for Humane, Arts, Letters and
Social Sciences Online
MATRIX seeks to advance critical understanding and promote access to knowledge
through world-class research in humanities technology.
URL:  http://www.matrix.msu.edu/

Michigan State University, The Vincent Voice Library, Maurice Crane,
Director.The G. Robert Vincent Voice Library is the largest academic voice
library in the United States. It houses recordings from more than 50,000 persons
recorded during the last 100 years. The site contains downloadable sound files .
URL: http://vvl.lib.msu.edu/index.cfm

The Minnesota Historical Society began collecting oral histories in 1948.
Concentrating on the history of Minnesota, the oral histories in the collection
cover a wide range of topics including politics, business, labor, agriculture, the
environment, religion, ethnicity, and education.
URL:  http://www.mnhs.org/collections/oralhistory/oralhistory.htm

National Library of Australia Oral History Collection.The National Library's
Oral History Collection contains tape recordings and transcripts.
URL: http://www.nla.gov.au/oh

National Park Service-Links to the past. Sites include: Historic Places,
History, Archeology, Museum Collections, Preservation Programs, and
Structures and Landscapes. Search under oral history.
URL: http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/oh/index.htm

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History - University of Maine
Archive Collections Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History.
Contact information:  Maine Folklife Center 5773 South Stevens Hall University
of Maine.
URL: http://www.umaine.edu/folklife

Oral History on Space, Science, and Technology. Department of Space
History, National Air and Space Museum.
URL:  http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/dsh/ohp-introduction.html

Santa Cruz Regional Oral History Project: University of California, Santa
Cruz, lists of people interviewed, along with area resources, bibliography.
URL is http://library.ucsc.edu/reg-hist/

Social Security Administration History Archives contain over 100 Social
Security and Medicare-related oral histories. A catalog of the Archives' holdings
is online and the full transcripts of selected interviews are also accessible online. The
online interviews contain photographs and soundclips along with transcripts. Contact
Larry DeWitt at the SSA Archives.
URL:  http://www.ssa.gov/history/orallist.html

South Dakota Oral History Center/Institute of American Indian Studies.
The largest Native American oral history collection in the US. Topics range from
ancient legends and traditional beliefs to recent political and social issues.
Director: Leonard R. Bruguier, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South
Dakota.
URL: http://www.usd.edu/iais/

Southern Oral History Program, University of North Carolina.  Home page
of Dr. Hall, who heads the program.
URL: http://www.sohp.org/

Saint Vincent College, Center for Northern Appalachian Studies, Oral
History Program.
URL: http://facweb.stvincent.edu/academics/english/faculty/wissolik/center.htm

The State Historical Society of Wisconsin Archives.
URL:   http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/

Texas Oral History Association, founded in 1982, serves as a network for oral
history practitioners from various settings throughout Texas and surrounding
states. The web site provides announcements of forthcoming TOHA meetings,
membership information, and links to related sites. In addition it contains a
cumulative list of the contents of the TOHA journal, Sound Historian, published
since 1993, and provides manuscript requirements for potential journal
contributors. Very useful is the web edition of the TOHA Newsletter, with the
contents of recent newsletters (1997-1998).
URL is http://www. baylor.edu/~TOHA/

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Oral History
Department and Archive.  Also includes a free 140 page publication in PDF
format entitled, Oral History Interview Guidelines.
URL: http://www.ushmm.org

University of Alaska Fairbanks: The Oral History Program was established
in 1981 and now includes more than 8,000 recordings, many with Native
Alaskans. Notable in the collections is Project Jukebox--an interactive, multi-
media computer system that combines recordings with maps, photographs, and
printed text.
URL:  http://www.uaf.edu/library/oralhistory/index.html
Project Jukebox  go to: http://uaf-db.uaf.edu/Jukebox/PJWeb/pjhome.htm

University of California at Berkeley Regional Oral History Office: at the
Bancroft Library, practical information on conducting oral history interviews and
projects.
URL: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/

University of Connecticut at Storrs- Center for Oral History.The Center
originates, sponsors, and supports oral history projects dealing with a wide
variety of subjects, including the University itself. Through its professional
transcribing service, TAPESCRIBE, the Center assists oral historians in the
completion of their projects by transforming the taped word into written form. 
URL:  http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~cohadm01/

University of Hawaii at Manoa, Center for Oral History preserves state
history including oral histories of communities, ethnic groups, government, labor
and historical events involving Hawaii
URL:  http://www.oralhistory.hawaii.edu/

The University of Kentucky Oral History Program Division of Special
Collections and Archives University of Kentucky Libraries.
URL: http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/Special/oral_history/

University of Missouri Center for Studies in Oral Tradition.  Description
and information about the journal, Oral Tradition
URL: http://www.oraltradition.org/about/

University of New Mexico Oral History.  List of audio tapes and transcripts
available at archives.
URL:
http://elibrary.unm.edu/oanm/NmU/nmu1%23unma123/nmu1%23unma123_m1.html

University of Rochester Medical Center Oral History Project.
       URL: http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/hslt/miner/rare_books/oral_histories/index.cfm

University of South Florida, Tampa, FL - USF Oral History Collection -
Guide includes index and sound files.
URL: http://web.lib.usf.edu/flasc/oralhistory.html

The Oral History Interviews of the University of New South Wales in
Sydney,Australia are listed at this website.
URL:  http://info.library.unsw.edu.au/archives/about/holdings/archoral.html

University of Southern Mississippi - Center for Oral History & Cultural
Heritage - interviews with/about Mississippians, index, excerpts, other guides.
URL:  http://www.usm.edu/oralhistory/

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Guide to the Oral History
Collections in Special Collections the directory lists the oral history holdings of
the special collections at the university archives. URL is
URL:  http://spec.lib.vt.edu/specgen/oralindx.htm

Veterans History Project. The Veterans History Project relies on volunteers to collect
and preserve stories of wartime service that include World War I (1914-1920), World
War II (1939-1946), Korean War (1950-1955), Vietnam War (1961-1975), Persian Gulf
War (1990-1995) and Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts (2001-present).  In addition, those
U.S. citizen civilians who were actively involved in supporting war efforts (such as war
industry workers, USO workers, flight instructors, medical volunteers, etc.) are also
invited to share their valuable stories.
URL:  http://www.loc.gov/vets/

Walter P. Reuther Library ,Wayne State University houses the Archives of
Labor and Urban Affairs. Its oral history collection of interviews with union labor
leaders and workers is extensive.
URL is: http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/

Youngstown State University, Center for Historic Preservation,  houses an
important regional Oral History Program.The YSU program is the largest in Ohio,
with over 2000 interviews collected since 1974.
URL:  http://www.as.ysu.edu/~histpres/

Information about the oral  history collections can be found at: 
http://www.as.ysu.edu/~histpres/oralhist.htm

Preserving the voice of the individual helps document Michigan's past!

Have Questions:

Geneva  Kebler Wiskemann
gwiskemann@arq.net
       Secretary
MOHA
5580 West State Road
Lansing, MI 48906-9325
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