December 2, 2023

University of Massachusetts Amherst: UMass Amherst Libraries Announce Jerry Russo Oral History Collection

University of Massachusetts Amherst: UMass Amherst Libraries Announce Jerry Russo Oral History Collection. “In March of 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, filmmaker and photographer Jerry Russo began working on an oral history project to interview visual artists and creatives all over the world. During the subsequent two years, he completed 249 interviews via Zoom. Russo donated the oral histories to the Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center (SCUA), for which social change and the arts are major collecting focuses; more than 100 of the interviews are now available in SCUA’s digital repository, Credo.”

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November 16, 2023

Colby College: Learning From a Living History

Colby College: Learning From a Living History. “Oral histories that [Emily] Kwen and other students collected this spring have become the inaugural iteration of Voices from the Peninsula: Oral Histories of Korea, a project that is archived through Digital Commons @ Colby, an online repository administered by the Colby College Libraries.”

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November 6, 2023

University of Maine: Women in the Military Oral History Collection Available Online

University of Maine: Women in the Military Oral History Collection Available Online. “Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections has published oral history recordings from MF144, the “Women in the Military” collection of the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History. The full collection features recorded interviews with nearly 70 female military veterans serving between World War II and the Gulf War. Forty-nine of these interviews were published in the institutional repository, DigitalCommons@UMaine, in advance of Veterans Day, 2023.”

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November 4, 2023

California State University Northridge: Farmworker Oral Histories Dramatized, Posted on YouTube By CSUN Students & Faculty to Explore History of UFW

California State University Northridge: Farmworker Oral Histories Dramatized, Posted on YouTube By CSUN Students & Faculty to Explore History of UFW. “They were the foot soldiers in the early days of the United Farm Workers, then known as the National Farm Workers Association. Their actions laid the foundation for much of the Chicano movement of the 1960s and ‘70s. The oral histories 0f Bobby de la Cruz, Carmen Hernández, María and Antonia Saludado, Jose Serda and Richard Chávez were collected decades ago and are part of the archives of California State University, Northridge’s Tom & Ethel Bradley Center. Those very personal stories have been turned into dramatizations by CSUN students available on YouTube for a new generation to learn from.”

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July 27, 2023

Digital Library of Georgia: Oral history interviews of W. W. Law, civil rights workers, and 20-century Savannah civil rights history are now available freely online

Digital Library of Georgia: Oral history interviews of W. W. Law, civil rights workers, and 20-century Savannah civil rights history are now available freely online . “The content for this project consists of oral history interview videos with W. W. Law and other Savannah, Georgia, community members involved in the Civil Rights movement. The tapes were shot just prior to Mr. Law’s death and are the longest and most detailed interviews he did on his life and career as a Civil Rights activist.”

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June 16, 2023

University of Illinois: Illinois researchers, Native American tribes working together to curate, increase access to oral histories

University of Illinois: Illinois researchers, Native American tribes working together to curate, increase access to oral histories. “Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are working with Native American tribes to connect them with ethnographic materials and oral histories collected from tribal members and to make the materials accessible online.”

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May 3, 2023

North Carolina State University: New Animal Rights Network Oral Histories Digitized

North Carolina State University: New Animal Rights Network Oral Histories Digitized. “The Animal Rights Network Oral History Collection has been digitized and is now available on the Special Collections Digital Collections website. These oral histories (transcripts included) are interviews with prominent figures in the animal rights and welfare movement, including Christine Stevens, Michael Fox, John Hoyt, and Roger Caras.”

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April 18, 2023

Santa Fe New Mexican: Project helping preserve stories of enslaved Native Americans

Santa Fe New Mexican: Project helping preserve stories of enslaved Native Americans. “[Weston Archuleta] works as an administrative assistant for Native Bound Unbound — a multiyear project headed by former New Mexico state historian Estevan Rael-Gálvez to establish a centralized, online repository cataloging the lives of enslaved Indigenous people across the Western Hemisphere. Archuleta’s work and family history intersected Saturday at Santa Fe’s School for Advanced Research.”

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March 23, 2023

PBS News Hour: What it means to be Iraqi, 20 years after the U.S. invasion

PBS News Hour: What it means to be Iraqi, 20 years after the U.S. invasion. “The 2003 invasion of Iraq is a memory forever etched in the minds of millions of Iraqis who were living in and outside the country at the time. Years of war, followed by continued instability in the country, has cost generations time and trauma. In Ruptured Domesticity, a digital archive, Iraqi researcher Sana Murrani has collected the memories of Iraqis living inside and outside the country during the times of war.”

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March 19, 2023

Ekathimerini: Canada’s Greeks share their stories

New-to-me, from Ekathimerini: Canada’s Greeks share their stories. “These and many more stories form the core of the Virtual Museum of Greek Immigration to Canada, an initiative that is part of the Immigrec project, and an interdisciplinary educational partnership that comprises research teams from three Canadian universities with Greek studies programs (McGill, Simon Fraser and York) and the University of Patras, with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.”

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