Oral History Resources

FORMS

• Sample Consent Form

• Sample Parental Consent Form

WEBSITES

• Oral History Association

• Step-by-Step Guide to Oral History

• UCLA Center for Oral History Research

• Voice of Witness

• Oral Historian’s Digital Toolbox

• Groundswell Oral History for Social Change

• Race, Poverty and Oral History

• The HistoryMakers: The Nation’s Largest African American Video Oral History Collection

VIDEOS

• An introduction to verbatim theatre

• Anna Deavere Smith: Let Me Down Easy

• The Laramie Project

BOOKS

• Say it Forward: A Guide to Social Justice Storytelling 

• My Folks Don't Want Me To Talk About Slavery: Personal Accounts of Slavery in North Carolina

• Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project 

• Studs Terkel:

  • Working

  • Hard Times

  • The Good War
    

REFERENCES

• Conventions of Transcribing and Editing

• Samples Family History Questions

FREE SOFTWARE

• Express Scribe

• Voice Record Pro (iOS)

ORAL HISTORIES - PUBLIC ACCESS

• 2757 Brighton Avenue

• StoryCorps

• Studs Terkel Radio Archive

FUNDING

• Florida Humanities

• Oral History Association

• National Endowment for the Humanities: Collaborative Research