US History-Living History Project: Living History Project
About this Guide:
Use the resources in this guide for researching your Living History project. Each page contains numerous reference, primary sources, news coverage, and web resources to help you contextualize the period of U.S. history you are researching.
If you have any questions or can't find the information you need, ask your friendly social studies librarian, Ms. Jacobson for help. Come to the library or email me. :)
Living History Project
- Living History: A Grandparent/Parent – Student InterviewCopy of the assignment
- The StoryCorps App
Android & iOS. Includes tips for interviewing and recording.
Interviewing a Veteran?
Most of the oral histories in the Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress come from amateur historians like you.
Share your relative's story! Find out how to conduct interviews and submit them to the Veteran's History Project by clicking the link below:
Examples of Oral History
- Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History (University of Oklahoma)
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"Provides access to typescripts of interviews (1967 -1972) conducted with hundreds of Indians in Oklahoma regarding the histories and cultures of their respective nations and tribes. Related are accounts of Indian ceremonies, customs, social conditions, philosophies, and standards of living."
Here are some excellent examples of oral history projects from the Web. Sites that include audio are denoted with this icon: 
- Black Oral History Collection (Washington State University)
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- Veterans History Project (Library of Congress)
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The Project collects first-hand accounts of U.S. Veterans from the following wars:
* World War I (1914-1920)
* World War II (1939-1946)
* Korean War (1950-1955)
* Vietnam War (1961-1975)
* Persian Gulf War (1990-1995)
* Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts (2001-present) - Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (Library of Congress)
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