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Oral History is a method of collecting and preserving spoken memories and personal comments of historical information through recorded interviews with participants in past events and ways of life. In a sense, its rise can attribute to the technology development. Especially is the emergence of Internet. People can communicate and get information by the Internet. I am a beginner of oral history. In fact, I also know the oral history in the Internet. Now I have contacted with some oral historians and many oral history associations in the world. So I feel it is important to summarize the oral history resources on the World Wide Web.
The International Oral History Association:
Http://www.filo.uba.ar/Institutos/ravignani/historal/ioha.htm
International Oral History Association was established under the endeavor
of some oral historians in 1979. It is an international organization of oral
history field. The official publication is International Oral History Yearbook.
It will convoke the International Oral History Conference in two years. The
11th conference will convoke in the Turk on June, 2000. This site introduces
the information about oral history in the world.
The Oral History Association:
Http://www.dickinson.edu/organizations/oha
It is a famous organization in the oral history field, which was established
in 1966. This site offers useful oral history instruction through its Workshop
on the Web, including an introduction to the basics of interviewing, tips for
collecting family oral histories, the Baylor University Transcribing Style Guide,
new publications, new awards and memberships. The awards are given in the categories
of publication, nonprint media productions, teaching, and oral history projects.
Also you can know the membership of the Oral History Association, you can get
their e-mail address. So you can consult with them, they will give you some
advice ensusiastically. In the web you can apply to join the association, but
you must render some money. Then you will become their membership. You can share
some benefits come from the Oral History Association.
H-Oralhist
Http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~oralhist
It is a network for scholars and professionals active in studies. You can
join this organization in the web. It will send you some new information on
oral history by the e-mail. So you need an e-mail address which can help you
contact and communicate with others. If you have some questions, you can send
your questions to it, it will transfer them to other scholars.
Columbia University Oral History Research Office:
Http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/oral
The Columbia University Oral History Research Office is the oldest and largest
organized oral history program in the world.It was founded by historian Allan
Nevins in 1948. This site consist of contact information, background, scope,
philosophy, professional activities, interviewing and interview processing,
how to use the collection, policy on the use of tapes by patrons and summer
institute. Summer institute is the highest seminar in the oral history field.
There will be some famous oral history workers to enter this workshop to explore
the questions that oral history encounter during the development of oral history.
Oral History Review:
Http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~cohadm01/ohr.html
The official publication of the Oral History Association since 1973, the
Oral History Review explores the recording, transcribing, and preserving of
conversations with people who have participated in important political, cultural,
and economic social development in modern times. Many scholars include historians,
sociologists, anthropologists, educators, civil rights groups, medical groups
and religious groups subscribe this journal.
Canadian Oral History Association:
Http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/oral-history/
The Canadian Oral History Association was formed to help the diverse individuals
and groups who express an interest in oral history and to deal with these problems
by providing a clearing-house for information and a link among projects underway
across Canada. The Canadian Oral History Association publishes the Fourm, an
annual review containing a selection of papers on oral history in Canada and
a Newsletter reporting on the administration of the Association, news about
individual projects, relevant publications and regional activities. This site
includes Projects, Forum, How to do oral history, Reference.
National Library of New Zealand
Oral History Centre:
Http://www.natlib.govt.nz/public/virtual_tour/oral_history.html
Natioanl Library of New Zealand is one of the country's leading cultural
and information centres. The unique role of the National Library is to collect
and maintain literature and information resources that relate to New Zealand
and the Pacific. The Oral Histiry Centre captures the voices of ordinary New
Zealanders through interview. It preserves more than 9,000 hours of spoken recording
on discs, reels and cassette tape. The Centre not only does oral history projects,
but also provides training and advice on how to record oral histories, and hires
out equipment for people making oral histories. New Zealand has established
an organization---New Zeland Oral History Association to direct the development
of oral history.
National Archives of Singapore Oral History Centre:
Http://www.museum.org.sg/nas/ohr.html
The Oral History Centre records, documents, preserves and disseminates information
on the history of Singapore through the collective memory of the people. The
information collected by the Oral History Centre is available in audio tapes
and can be consulted for research purposes. Transcripts are also available on
microcopy.
National Library of Australia Oral History Collection:
Http://www.nla.gov.au/1/oh/
The Library¡¯s Oral History Collection was initiated in the late 1950¡¯s
to supplement manuscript holdings by recording interviews with Eminent Australians.
In recent years a substantial number of interviews in the field of Social History
have added, contributing to a balanced national collection of some 58,000 oral
history and folk recordings. Australia Oral History Association is a country
organization. Its branch has New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria,
Tasmania, Western Australia.
Peking University, P.R.China: The Theory and Practice of Oral History:
Http://www.hist.pku.edu.cn/
This web was established by Professor Liu Yigao of Peking University.Mr Liu
teaches oral history in the Department of History. It offers some information
on the arrangement of oral history program, Bibliography and projects. There
have some famous oral history worker in the Peking University, they are Yang
Liwen, Dong Zhenhua, Niu Dayong.
Oral History, British Library National Sound Archive, London:
Http://www.bl.uk/
The British Library National Sound Archive (NSA) is one of the largest sound
archives in the world. The NSA¡¯s oral history section collects audio and video
taped interviews as well as carrying out its own programme of life story recordings.
As the national centre for oral history in Britain, the section provides advice
and training in oral history methods and theory, and maintains close contact
with oral history groups in Britain and abroad. It has done some wellknown projects:
City Lives, The Living Memory of the Jewish Community, Artists Lives, Retail
Lives, and Lives in Steel. Dr Robert B Perks is the curator of Oral History
Section.
Oral History Society:
Http://www.essex.ac.uk/sociology/oralhis.htm
The Oral History Society is a national organization dedicated to the collection
and preservationof oral history. It offers practical support and advice about
how to get started, what equipment to use, what techniques are best, how to
look after tapes, and how to make use of what you have collected. It publishes
the Oral History Journal half and one year.
Smithsonian Institution Archives:
Http://www.siris.si.edu/
The Office of Smithsonian Institution Archives began its Oral History Program
in 1973. Program staff conduct interviews with current and retired Smithsonian
staff and others who have made significant contributions to the Institution.
The purpose of the program is to supplement the written documentation of the
Archives records and manuscript collections, focusing on the history of the
Institution, research by its scholars, and contributions of its staff. The Oral
History Collection also contains interviews conducted by researchers or students
on topics related to the history of the Smithsonian or the holdings of the Smithsonian
Archives. It offers many awards to the significative projects.
Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library, Berkeley University:
Http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO
Oral History at the Bancroft Library had its beginnings in the work of the
historian of the West for whom the library is named, Hubert Howe Bancroft. The
Regional Oral History Office was established in 1954 to continue the Bancroft
tradition. It major subject of interviews include law and government, arts and
letters, business and labor, social and community history, University of California
history, natural resource and the environment, and science and technology. ROHO¡¯s
volumes are deposited in more than 700 manuscript libraries worldwide and catalogued
on two nationally accessible library databases. Its aim is to¡°capture the historical
moment¡±. This site includes about ROHO, contact information, oral history online,
oral history tips, the one minute guide, oral history catalogue, other oral
history links and Townsend Center Oral History Working Group.
California State University, Long Beach, Oral History Program:
Http://www.csulb.edu/~agunns/relprm/oral01.html
Oral History at CSULB is an instructional program offering students an enhanced
knowledge of the techniques and methodologies of oral information gathering
and its uses in teaching and research. It also serves as an oral history resource
for educational and community groups to help them promote and use oral history
in both teaching and researching. But oral history is not a degree granting
program. I have ever enquired this question. Ms Sherna Berger Gluck who is a
wellknown oral historian in charge this program.
UC Santa Cruz Regional History Project:
Http://bob.ucsc.edu/library/reg-hist/
The Regional History Project has been documenting the history of the Central
Coast of California and the institutional history of UC Santa Cruz since 1963,
through oral history. This Web Site includes the complete catalog of our collection,
a photo gallery of historical images of the Central Coast of California, Oral
History resources, and links to other oral history sites on the Internet.
University of Florida: Oral History Collection:
Http://www.clas.ufl.edu/history/oral
The University of Florida's Oral History Program is funded by and associated
with the Department of History and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
at the University of Florida. The Program also receives support from the College
of Medicine, College of Law, and the UF Foundation. The Program's Director is
a member of the National Oral History Association. This program major collection
has over 900 interviews with Native Americans--including Seminoles, Cherokees,
and Creeks. Other holdings include such diverse subjects as African-Americans
in Florida, civil rights activities in St. Augustine (1964), women in Florida,
pioneer settlers, a history of Florida education, the citrus industry, and the
Florida Highway Patrol. This site offers some information such as: current activities,
staff, workshop, transcribing service, projects and mission statement.Topics
covered during the workshop include A definition of oral history and how it
is used; Legal and ethical issues; Transcribing and editing; Memory; Practical
Work; Question Period; Project design, goals, and management; What equipment
to use and how to use it; How to prepare questions and conduct an interview;
Family history.
University of California at Los Angeles Oral History Program:
Http://www2.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/ohp/ohpindex.htm
The UCLA Oral History Program (OHP) documents the history of Los Angeles
and the institutional history of UCLA and undertakes selected projects that
are national and international in scope. This web includes History and Description,
Address and Staff Listing, Procedures, The Collection, Interview Access, Support
and Funding, Other Activities of the OHP, Introduction to Oral History, Oral
History resource.
Indiana University Oral History Research Center:
Http://www.indiana.edu/~ohrc/
The Indiana University Oral History Research Center is devoted to the collection,
preservation, and interpretation of memories and oral traditions. The center
takes a special interest in American history in general and the history of Indiana
and the Midwest in particular. It seeks to preserve historical data that usually
cannot be found in any written form and exists mainly in the memories of historical
participants themselves. Since 1968, the center has collected over 1,600 recorded
interviews on topics ranging from the history of Indiana communities to the
evolution of American philanthropy.
The University of New Mexico: SOUTHWEST ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION:
Http://www.unm.edu/~unmarcho/oralhist.html
SOHA was founded in 1981 to serve practitioners of oral history in Arizona,
southern California, Nevada, New Mexico and contiguous areas. Through publications,
meetings, workshops, and other activities, SOHA supports and promotes oral history
as a method for exploring and recording history, culture and current experiences
in the Southwest. In this endeavor the association maintains close ties with
the national Oral History Association. Membership in SOHA provides meaningful
opportunities for participation in the exchange of information and the discussion
of matters of common concern among those interested in oral history throughout
the Southwest. This site include Mission and Membership; Constitution and Bylaws;
Workshops; SOHA Officers/Committee; SOHA Presidents and Conference Sites and
OHA Web Site (National).
Texas Oral History Association:
Http://www.baylor.edu/~TOHA
Texas Oral History Association was founded in 1982, serves as a network for
oral history workers from various settings throughout Texas, other states and
all countries. The web site provides announcements of forthcoming TOHA meetings,
membership information, bibliography, and links to other oral history sites.
In addition it includes a cumulative list of the contents of the TOHA journal,
Sound Historian, published since 1993, and provides manuscript requirements
for potential journal contributors. Very useful is the web edition of the TOHA
Newsletter, with the contents of recent newsletters (1997-1998).
The Center for Oral History at the University of Connecticut:
Http://www.oralhistory.uconn.edu/
It began as the Oral History Project in 1968 and later expanded in the late
seventies in response to a growing professional interest in oral history. It
was designated a Center by the University of Connecticut Board of Trustees in
1981. The Center originates, sponsors, and supports oral history projects dealing
with a wide variety of subjects, including the University itself. The Center
collects over 900 oral history interviews.
University of Cape Town, South Africa:
Http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/history/ohp1.htm
The Western Cape oral history project (WCOHP) is committed to the promotion
and development of oral and public history in the Western Cape (Cape Town, South
Africa). The WCOHP has four focuses:
a sound archive, an internship programme, public history booklets, teaching
and research consultancy work.
Museum of the Person, Sao Paula, Brazil:
Http://www2.uol.com.br/mpessoa/engl.htm
This was the idea that originated the Museum of the Person, a private institution
created in Brazil in 1992, that has as an aim to register, to preserve and to
divulge life stories. The Museum of the Person is a virtual Museum. Here you
can write your own story, read stories from our archive and see some brazilian
photographics collections. Brazil has also established Brailian Oral History
Association.
Georgia Government Documentation Project, GSU Special Collections:
Http://wwwlib.gsu.edu/spcoll/ggdp/ggdp.htm
It documents the state's political heritage through oral history interviews
and collections of associated papers. The GGDP collection includes more than
250 interviews with former governors, legislators, women in politics, African
American political activists and leaders, journalists, and numerous other public
figures. In addition to the interviews generated by the project, the GGDP actively
collects interviews conducted by other scholars of Georgia politics. The Project
Director is Clifford M. Kuhn. Mr Clifford is also a famous oral historian. He
teacher oral history in GSU, so he has some achievement in the oral history
teaching. He has ever published many articles on oral history in the classroom.
His research is very significative, because oral history is very useful to alter
the mode of history teaching.
Oral History on Space, Science, and Technology:
Http://www.nasm.edu/NASMDOCS/DSH/oralhistory
It include National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the Space Astronomy Oral
History Project(SAOHP), the Space Telescope History Project(STHP), the Glennan-Webb-Seamans
Project for Research in Space History(GWS) and the RAND History Project(RAND).
The catalog describes over 850 hours of oral history interviews with more than
200 interviewees.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:
Http://www.ushmm.org
The Oral History Department collects and produces video and audiotaped testimonies
of Holocaust survivors, resources, liberators, resistence fighters, prosecutors,
perpetrators, and bystanders. The oral History Archive contains more than 2,900
interviews, mostly in English. Some 300 of the videotaped interviews are
of Polish Cathlics, Roma and Sinti, Political prisoners, homesexuals, resistence
fighters, rescuers, liberators, and postwar prosecutors of Nazis crimes. The
Oral History collection is expanding rapidly. Collection agreements are pending
or being negotiated with almost every relevant institution in the U.S., and
agreements with collections in Canada, Germany, France, Russia, Ukraine, Poland,
South America, and Australia are now being established.
Utah State University Oral History Program:
Http://www.usu.edu/~oralhist/oh.html
University of Louisville Oral History Center:
Http://www.louisville.edu/library/uarc/ohc.html
University of Hawai'i Center for Oral History:
Http://www2.soc.hawaii.edu/css/oral_hist/index.html
University of Alaska Fairbanks Oral History Program:
Http://www.uaf.edu/library/libweb/oralhist/home.html
Southern Oral History Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:
Http://www.unc.edu/depts/sohp/
US Library of Congress WPA Federal Writers' Project Life Stories:
Http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
¡°California As I Saw It¡±: First-Person Narrative of California¡¯s Early
Years, 1849-1900:
Http://www.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html
University of Kentucky Oral History Program:
Http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/special/oral_hist
Tulane University: Hogan Jass Archive Oral Histories:
Http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/OralHistoryIntroduction.html
Vietnam Vets Oral History & Folklore Project:
Http://129.162.150.173/folk.htm
University of Southern Mississippi Oral History Program:
Http://www.dept.usm.edu/~ocah
Michigan Oral History Association:
Http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~moha
Duke University, Center for Documentary Studies:
Http://aaswebsv.aas.duke.edu/docstudies/cds
University of Missouri Center for Studies in Oral Tradition:
Http://www.missouri.edu/~csottime/index.html
University Oral History Project at the University of New South Wales:
Http://www.nun.unsw.edu/oral.history.html
American Airpower Heritage Museum, Oral History Program:
Http://www.avdigest.com/aahm/aahmoral/html
James Cook University Archives:
Http://www.jcu.edu.au/gen/Archivist/oral.html
American Memory from the Library of Congress:
Http://lcweb2.loc.gov.ammem/ammemhome.html
Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History:
Http://130.111.64.1:82/screens/libinfo.06.html
Rochester University Oral History Project:
Http://www.history.rochester.edu/oralhist.html
The State Historical Society of Wisconsin Archives:
Http://www.wisc.edu/shs-archives/
Navy Oral History Collection:
Http://hometown.aol.com/famjustin/usnoentry.html
The Institute of Oral History, University of Texas at El Paso:
Http://media.mmtlc.utep.edu/~oralh/
University of South Dakota: Oral History Center:
Http://www.usd.edu/iais
South Kingstown [Rhode Island] High School:
Http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects
Project for a Netherlands Oral History Archive on Indonesia 1940-1962:
Http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/institutes/kitlv/oralh.html
New Jersey Oral History AIDS Project UMDNJ Oral History Collection:
Http://www3.umdnj.edu/~libcwis/oralhist.html
Michigan Women Video Oral History Project:
Http://scnc.leslie.k12.mi.us/~charnle2/mwohvid.html
Social Security Administration History Archives:
Http://www.ssa.gov/history/oralhist.html
An Oral History of the Gulf War:
Http://www.boston.com/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/
National Park Service-Links to the past:
Http://www.cr.nps.gov/welcome.html
James Cook University of North Queensland Archives Oral History:
Http://www.jcu.edu.au/gen/Archivist/oral.html
New Zealand Historical Branch (Oral History):
Http://inform.dia.govt.nz/internal_affairs/businesses/hb_pro/profile.html:
The American Bar Foundation Oral History Program:
Http://www.abf-sociolegal.org/oralhistory/
Yale School of Music, Oral History, American Music:
Http://pantheon.cis.yale.edu/~perlis
The May 4th Oral History Project:
Http://www.library.kent.edu/exibits/4may95
Michigan Women's Historical Center and Hall of Frame--Oral History and Video Collection
Http://scnc.leslie.k12.mi.us/~charnle2/mwohvid.html
Chicago Architects Oral History Project
Rochester Oral History Project
Oral History at Miami University of Ohio
The U.S. Naval Institute's Oral History program
University Archives
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