Associations, Societies and Centers
American Memory: Historical Collections at the Library of Congress.
Basque Oral History Project. Contains summaries, sound clips, and photos related to interviews conducted with people of Basque origin living in the US.
BBC Inside Lives. Gives people a chance to tell stories about anything that’s meaningful to them.
Canadian Oral History Association. Home Page at Dickinson College.
Center for Digital Storytelling. In addition to info on their workshops and programs, list of resources and articles related to digital storytelling.
Center for Northern Appalachian Studies at St. Vincent College.
Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage at the University of Southern Mississippi.
The Center for Public History at the State University of West Georgia.
Center for the Study of Lives at the University of Southern Maine.
Creative Narrations. Consulting organization that provides support and training for nonprofits to document the stories of their communities.
Dandelife. A “social biography network,” or social network built around the telling of life’s stories.
Degree Confluence Project. The goal of this project is to collect and map pictures and stories from every latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world.
DocumentaryWorks. A community-based organization focused on documentaries of all forms, but with a particular interest in radio and audio stories; links to documentary projects and resources.
Digital Think. A site with wide-ranging contributions about digital storytelling and media; grouped under categories such as Activism, Games, Infographics, Communication, and Thinkers.
East Midlands Oral History Archive at the Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester.
Face to Face. This site explores what it means to be an American with the face of the enemy; stories, responses, glossary, activities.
Face on the Numbers: My Words, My Story. To collect and share stories of real people about what they need from government and how they have benefited as a result of government resources or programs.
The Family Farm Project at Kenyon College.
Florida Memory Project. A web-based availability of photos, documents, and other materials in the State Archives of Florida.
H-Oralhist. A discussion list maintained by H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences Online.
H-Public. An online discussion group maintained by H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine.
Hurricane Digital Memory Bank: Collecting and preserving stories of Katrina and Rita.
Imperial Paradise?: An Alternative Walking Tour of Victoria, BC. Unlike most carefully censored historical attractions, this tour intends to, “draw attention to some of the censored segments of Canada's imperial history, and to start some interesting discussions about how tourism and marketing play with history to attract our attention -- and our dollars.”
Indivisible: Stories of American Community. A national documentary project using photos and recorded voice to explore struggle and change in 12 United States communities.
Institute on World War II and the Human Experience at Florida State University.
International Oral History Association Home Page.
Jewish Women's Archive. Includes a guide to conducting women's oral histories, online exhibits of its own projects, curriculum for middle school and high school, and access to its virtual archive of oral histories.
Kentucky Oral History Commission of the Kentucky Historical Society.
Lancashire Textiles Project on the steam-driven weaving industry in East Lancashire, England.
Local Projects. The design studio behind StoryCorps; click on “Projects” link in menu to see photos and details about a number of other projects, such as The Miners’ Story Project, which tells the story of miners and mines of the southwestern US, and Memory Maps, a NYC project where visitors place handwritten memories on maps of the city.
London’s Voices. An archived collection of the Museum of London’s projects, London’s Voices, “explores, reflects and celebrates London’s great diversity through the voices, memories and opinions of Londoners.”
Maine Folklife Center at the University of Maine.
Mapping Memories: Reminiscence with Ethnic Minority Elders documents a project in Britain that collected life stories of ethnic minority elders from January 2003 to January 2004; explains methodology and benefits of “reminiscence work” and includes the life stories themselves as well reminiscence-related activities.
Memory Bridge. A website of the Foundation for Alzheimer’s and Cultural Memory,includes space for story sharing.
Memory and Place in the 20th Century Italian City: Messina, Naples, Rome, Milan, Venice A website documenting a research project at University College London.
The Memory Project at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
MemoryScape Audio Walks: Voices from the Hidden History of the Thames.
The Mothers’ Living Stories Project. A project that brings volunteers together with ill mothers to help them review their lives and record their stories.
Multimedia Reporting and Convergence. Provides brief courses and tutorials related to multimedia storytelling.
Museum of Our Childhood (only in Catalan and Spanish) . Contains memories of the war in 1930s Spain; links information about current war-affected countries.
Museu da Passoa – The Brazilian Museum of the Person.
Museum of the Person – Indiana.
The National Council on Public History Home Page.
National Trust for Historic Preservation.
New South Voices. A project by UNC Charlotte that has over 600 full audio and transcripts of oral history interviews and community conversations.
Officer’s Row Project. A project designed to document and preserve the history of the officers’ quarters of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Ohio Memory. An Online Scrapbook of Ohio Memory from the Ohio Historical Society.
Oral History Association. Links to regional organizations, centers and collections, sponsors, awards, etc.
The Oral History Program of the American Bar Foundation.
The Oral History Project of the Senate Historical Office under Associate Historian Donald A. Ritchie.
Oral History Research Office at Columbia University.
Oral History Society. What oral history is, how it can be used, conferences, resources, journals, etc.
The Organic City – Storytelling in Oakland, CA.
People’s Poetry Gathering. Sponsored by City Lore and Bowery Poetry Club, this project, “stretches a clothesline of poems from around the world across the streets of Lower Manhattan;” click on Virtual Gathering link to post, read, or collaborate on poems; link to Interactive World Poetry Map from home page to learn about poets from around the world.
The Place-Based Computing Initiative at The University of Western Ontario. Bill Turkel’s group; supports interdisciplinary research on technologically-augmented experiences of place.
OurStory. Post pics (and video) and related stories; website sends members emails asking questions to spur stories.
Place Matters. A joint project of NYC’s City Lore organization (www.citylore.org) and Municipal Art Society intended to serve as a “citywide initiative to identify, celebrate, interpret and protect places that tell the history and anchor the traditions of New York's many communities.”
Presidential Oral History Program at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia.
The Public History Resource Center includes resources on research, education, and websites.
Regional Oral History Office at the Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley.
Remembering Nagasaki. Along with photos taken by Yosuke Yamahata after the bombing of Nagasaki, there are memories of the bombing that were collected at an exhibition in San Francisco in 1995.
Remembering Pearl Harbor. A National Geographic Website.
StoryCorps. A national oral history project to instruct and inspire people to record each other's stories in sound. Provides "StoryBooths" around the country for people to record oral histories that are deposited with the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation Online Testimony Viewer. Short, categorized segments selected from the nearly 52,000 Holocaust survivor and witnesses testimonies.
T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History at Louisiana State University.
Tech Head Stories. Links to LOTS of digital storytelling sites, resources, tools, stories.
TimeSlips. Creative storytelling project to provide connection for those with Alzheimer’s and related dementia.
Valentina Nisi. Personal site of researcher looking at using new technologies for storytelling.
Vermont Folklife Center offers a useful series of field guides and a variety of services, archival resources, events, and products from its field research.
