Oral History Project


     

 

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Friends of the DC Everest Oral History Project

http://www.azjhs.org/-  This websites' mission is to preserve the very important heritage of Arizona's Jewish Communities.   They educate people about this topic by collecting exhibits, and publishing relevant materials such as photographs, letters, diaries, oral histories, scrapbooks.  Thus showing thee settlement and history of Jews in Arizona and the Southwest.

http://www.tankbooks.com- This website is about the stories of  WWII veterans involved with the 712th Tank Battalion.  There were over 600 hours put into the community interviewing people to put together this book.  

http://archives.library.wisc.edu/ORAL/oral.htm- This website's collection currently encompasses over 800 interviews.   Approximately one third of them were conducted covering subjects such as the Teaching Assistants Strike of 1970, and the UW Merger.  Other significant historical themes run through many of the interviews, including the Depression, the return of the GIs after World War II, academic freedom, as well as gender and racial issues.

http://homepages.csp.edu/hillmer/Hmong_OHP.html- This website a Hmong Oral History Project, that works to connect the younger generations of Hmong, and the broader communities in which many Hmong live, describing Hmong culture in Laos, and stories of the Hmong immigrant experience.

http://www.secstate.wa.gov/oralhistory/- This website records, transcribes, and publishes the collections of legislators, state officials and citizens who have shaped Washington's political history.  All tapes that were recorded were placed in the house of archives.

http://www.swadhinata.org.uk/index.htm - This website is a "not-for-profit" business that tries to help promote the Bengali culture and history in Britain and hopes to someday reach out to the world.

http://www.dceverest.org/srhigh/socialstudies/ - Go back to our Senior High's social studies page and find out more about our school!