Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Cool links that will help you in your oral history interview

These are some links to help you in planning and conducting your interview.

StoryCorps (http://www.storycorps.net)
A great project that helps anyone record their own oral history interviews. There are lots of short oral history interviews that you can listen to here. Click on Listen to Stories in the upper right corner. They're short! If you listen to National Public Radio (NPR), you've likely heard some of these stories before. You can even search the stories by keyword (subject, name, place).


StoryCorps Question Generator tool (http://www.storycorps.net/record-your-story/question-generator)
By filling in a short form, this site will give you questions that you can ask the person you are interviewing. It's a great tool.

DoHistory.org's Step-by-Step Guide to Oral History (http://dohistory.org/on_your_own/toolkit/oralHistory.html)
This is the source of the handout that you got in class.

Oral History Society's website (http://www.ohs.org.uk/)
There is lots of various information on oral histories here.

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