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HST 591 Oral History and Peace

Oral History Associations

Oral History Association seeks to bring together all persons interested in oral history as a way of collecting and interpreting human memories to foster knowledge and human dignity.

International Oral History Association provides a forum for oral historians around the world and a means for cooperation among those concerned with documentation and interpretation of human experience.

Journals

Oral History Review A journal for the theory and practice of oral history and related fields.

Words and Silences The journal of the International Oral History Association. This link will take you to the TOC of vol 6, no.1, the first online volume; however, the library does not have a subscription to the journal. It may be possible to ILL articles.

Oral History Collections

Columbia University Center for Oral History (CCOH) This archive holds more than 8,000 interviews, in audio, video and text formats, on a wide variety of  subjects.

National Archives and Records This holds many oral history transcripts and audio files including the Nixon Tapes, the Senate Oral History Project and others.

Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History (University of Kentucky Libraries) This is home to the Appalachia Oral History Collection, among others.

Speak 4 Peace This is an oral-history project that collects interviews with conscientious objectors across the U.S.

GandhiServe Foundation While not an oral history collection, there are film strips of Gandhi, and some have sound.