Oral History Resources

How-to guides and resources maintained by Oral History Association (OHA)

A free resource for planning your oral history, with a focus on community-centered projects.

Published August 2020, by the Oral History Association (OHA)

Recording of a webinar by the Oklahoma Archives Association. (Note: They discuss using various online tools. WashU is using a similar product, TheirStory, which is not covered in this video)

From the Bernard Becker Library, Archive & Rare Books

Department of Special Collections, University Archives.

Video and transcripts of recorded interviews conducted with civil rights activists for the award-winning documentary, "Eyes on the prize." From the Department of Special Collections, Film and Media Archive

Video and transcripts of recorded interviews conducted with individuals who survived the Great Depression. This collection includes 148 interviews totalling over 110 hours of footage. Includes conversations with Maya Angelou, Gore Vidal, Ossie Davis, a grandson of Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt, and many others. All transcripts are fully searchable. From Department of Special Collections, Film and Media Archive.

From Department of Special Collections, Local History Archives

recorded for the course WGSS3172 "Documenting the Queer Past in St. Louis" at Washington University in St. Louis, as part of the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. The class was designed by Professor Andrea Friedman, with a goal "to create the possibilities for a more inclusive LGBTQ history of St. Louis that will be available to researchers and the public" (course handbook). To meet this goal, the project focused on interviewing LGBTQ elders, with a general guideline that much of their life was spent in the St. Louis area prior to the year 2000. Particular efforts were also made to include groups especially missing from archived LGBTQ records, such as working-class women, trans* individuals, and African Americans.

Recorded at the 29109 conference by attendees.

Recorded by Dr. Ezelle Sanford, III as part of his dissertation research on St. Louis’s Homer G. Phillips Hospital—the nation’s largest segregated hospital which operated from 1937-1979. Ezelle earned his Ph.D. in History and History of Science from Princeton University in 2019. (source: http://www.ezellesanford.com/aboutme )