History 

Oral histories provide a personal angle on history and often gives voice to the common person. However it important to keep in mind that oral histories are subjective and individualistic and that memory is fallible.

Help: Making Sense of Oral History

To find published oral history transcripts as well as video interviews search the UW Libraries Catalog and use the terms interviews or oral histories in conjunction with your topic. For example:

• interviews and civil rights
  
• oral histories and world war 1939 1945
  

To find published oral histories available at the UW Libraries search the UW Libraries Catalog using the search terms: oral history or oral histories or interviews. This search will also find oral history transcripts housed in Special Collections. This is just a selected list of digitized oral histories available on the web. Search In the First Person to find other oral history websites.

• After the Day of Infamy
• American Life Histories
• Civil Rights Digital Archive: Oral History
• Densho
• Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History
• Frontline Diplomacy
• NCJW Oral History Project
• Nevada Test Site Oral History Project
• Oral Histories of the American South
• Regional Oral History Office
• Rutgers Oral History Archive
• September 11, 2001 Documentary Project
• Veteran's History Project
• University of Florida Oral History Collections
• Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive
• Voices of Civil Rights