Oral histories (audio files)

Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project

Presents materials from Lincoln's Illinois years (1830-1861), supplemented by resources from Illinois' early years of statehood (1818-1829). Thus Lincoln/Net provides a record of Lincoln's career, but ...

Absalom, Absalom! Electronic, Interactive! Chronology

Interactive (Flash-based) chronology mapping of the complex structure of this work by William Faulkner. Augmented by digital audio files of talks by Faulkner at UVA in the 1957 and 1958, and page ...

America’s Story from America's Library

A web site designed for children and families. The site combines kid-friendly graphics with the incomparable American historical collections of the Library in more than 1,000 stories about our nation’ ...

American Memory from the Library of Congress

American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American ...

Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982.

The Buckaroos in Paradise Collection presents documentation of a Nevada cattle-ranching community, with a focus on the family-run Ninety-Six Ranch. The documentation was largely the work of the ...

California Cultures

A collection of digitally reformatted primary resources selected from University of California libraries and bearing on the social live, culture, and commerce both of California's immigrants and its ...

Cleveland Along the Nickel Plate Road® During the 1920’s

In 1922 the New York, Chicago, & St. Louis Railway (Nickel Plate Railway or NKP) took a series of photographs along its right-of-way and adjacent neighborhoods from Euclid through the west side of ...

Cleveland Heights & University Heights, Ohio: A Collection of Historic Images

Cleveland Heights and University Heights are first ring suburbs located on the “heights” east of Cleveland, Ohio. While each is incorporated as a separate city, they share a school district and ...

Cleveland Memory Project

Here serious researchers and casual browsers will find thousands of historical photographs, as well as a growing collection of ebooks documenting the history of greater Cleveland and the Western ...

Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs

The site includes approximately 400 images from publicity photographs featuring regional production companies --Cleveland's Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada ...

Collect Britain: Putting History in its Place

Collect Britain is the British Library's largest digitisation project to date. The site goes live on May 21st 2003. By summer 2004 you can view and hear a staggering 100,000 images and sounds from our ...

Colorado Plateau Digital Archives

The Colorado Plateau Digital Archives from the Cline Library at Northern Arizona University (NAU) contains regional archival treasures held by the Cline Library. This includes thousands of vintage and ...

Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching

DART is a partnership with the London School of Economics, funded jointly by the NSF (US) and the JISC (UK). Four postdoctoral Fellows, two in each partner Anthropology department, are developing ...

Documenting the American South

Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. ...

Eleanor Roosevelt Speech Collection

The Eleanor Roosevelt Speech Collections in cludes an audio recording and accompanying transcript document Eleanor Roosevelt's speech to a convocation in Assembly Hall at Ball State Teachers College ( ...

Explorations in Black Leadership

Digitization of text, video and audio documenting the personal and professional lives of prominent African-American leaders, supporting a program co-sponsored by the Virginia Institute for Public ...

Feeding Cleveland: Urban Agriculture

A recurring theme in 20th century Cleveland that continues to the present day is that during difficult economic periods communities of people have come together to raise food crops on city land. The ...

Fenn College On-Line

On September 1, 1965 Fenn College became Cleveland State University. This exhibit, our vision of what an early Fenn College Web site might have looked like had the Internet been around in the 1960's, ...

Free Speech Movement Digital Archive

Presents a collection of material relating to the student protests at Berkeley in 1964 and 1965. Site contains journals, newsletters, photographs, oral histories, books, pamphlets, reports, minutes of ...

German Americans of Cleveland

German Americans of Cleveland is third in a series of websites developed or planned by the Cleveland State University Library to explore the ethnic influence that helped shape the history and ...

Hispano Music & Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection

An online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting religious and secular music of Spanish-speaking residents of rural Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. In 1940 ...

Humphrey Family Photographs of Euclid Beach Park

A Cleveland icon for more than 70 years,Euclid Beach Park can trace its origins to the golden age of amusement parks. Multitudes of similar venues appeared near the nation’s cities and along rail ...

Hungarian Americans of Cleveland

Hungarian Americans of Cleveland is one of a series of websites developed or planned by Cleveland State University Library to explore the ethnic influence that helped shape the history and development ...

Irish Americans of Cleveland

Irish Americans of Cleveland is one of a series of websites developed or planned by Cleveland State University Library to explore the ethnic influence that helped shape the history and development of ...

Kent State Shootings Oral Histories

The Kent State Shootings Oral History Project collects, records, and provides access to oral history accounts pertaining to the May 4, 1970, shootings and their aftermath. Kent State University was ...

Middletown Digital Oral Histories

The Middletown Digital Oral History Collection consists of audio and accompanying transcriptions for oral history interviews conducted with African American, Jewish and Catholic communities of Muncie ...

Notable Blacks of Cleveland

African Americans of Note in Cleveland contains approximately 2000 images of 500 individuals selected from the photographs in the Cleveland Press Collection. This collection was donated to the ...

Omaha Indian Music

Omaha Indian Music features traditional Omaha music from the 1890s and 1980s. The multiformat ethnographic field collection contains 44 wax cylinder recordings collected by Francis La Flesche and ...

Online Archive of California (OAC)

Federates collections of digital materials such as manuscripts, photographs, and art held in the libraries, museums, and archives across California through a single, searchable database.

Oral Histories of Gila County

Oral Histories of Gila County is a compilation of interviews commemorating Arizona’s first 100 years of Statehood. It was made possible by partial funding by an Arizona State Library LSTA Grant. The ...

Oral Histories of the White Mountains

This audio collection consists of snippets from interviews with residents who lived in and around the White Mountains area. The 1977 interviews were part of a Northland Pioneer College project to ...

Oregon State Baseball

Photographs, video, ephemera, essays and statistics documenting more than 100 years of OSU baseball players, coaches, and teams.

Photographs from the Berea Children's Home

In 1864, the German Methodist Episcopal Church founded the German Methodist Orphan Asylum to shelter Civil War orphans. Known today as the Berea Children's Home, they serve children and youth needing ...

Photographs of the Cleveland Metroparks

The Cleveland Metroparks is one of city’s highlights. Conceived by engineer William Stinchcomb back in 1917, this system of sixteen reservations encircles the city of Cleveland to create a 21,000 acre ...

Polish Americans of Cleveland

Polish Americans of Cleveland was developed by the Cleveland State University Library to explore the ethnic influence that helped shape the history and development of Cleveland.

Postcards of Cleveland

Walter Leedy began his comprehensive collection of Cleveland postcards, now numbering nearly 8,000 in earnest in 1989. The earliest of Leedy's postcards date from 1898, before many people traveled ...

Praying Grounds: African American Faith Communities

An ongoing documentary and oral history project which will ultimately offer audio and video recordings of oral histories and musical performances, as well as photographs, newspaper articles, ...

Purdue Oral History

The program captures reminiscences by individuals who have been associated with the University and its growth, changes and history. These interviews will aid in enriching our understanding of the ...

Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996

Quilts and Quiltmaking in America showcases materials from two American Folklife Center collections, the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project Collection (1978) and the "All-American Quilt Contest" ...

Robert F. Kennedy Speech Collection

The Robert F. Kennedy Speech Collection includes audio and video recordings, photographs, as well as a transcript of Robert F. Kennedy's speech delivered at Ball State University on April 4, 1968 ...

Silicon Genesis: An Oral History of Semiconductor Technology

A unique collection of oral history interviews with pioneers of the semiconductor industry. For access to streamed versions of the videotaped interviews.

Southern Spaces

Using ideas of place and space as organizing principles, Southern Spaces is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that employs emerging technologies to produce innovative scholarship about the ...

The American Library Association Archives

The ALA Archives consists of official records, correspondence, publications, photographs, sound recordings, films, and videotapes. This research material is arranged in five general areas: 1) ...

The Clay Herrick Slide Collection

Clay Herrick (1911-1993) was an historian, a civic leader who worked to preserve Cleveland's historic buildings and an author whose book Cleveland Landmarks received the Western Reserve Architectural ...

The Cleveland Cultural Gardens Collection

The Cleveland Cultural Gardens, extending along East Blvd. and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in Cleveland's University Circle area, is a unique collection of landscaped, themed gardens each ...

The Cleveland Press Collection

Comprised of hundreds of thousands of clippings and photographs, The Cleveland Press Collection is the former editorial library, or "morgue," of The Cleveland Press and is now part of Cleveland State ...

The Cleveland Union Terminal Collection

The Cleveland Union Terminal Collection is the archives of the company that built the Terminal Tower, the union passenger station, the complex of office buildings, post office, department store and ...

The Cuyahoga County Engineer's Photography Collection

Over 1,200 images from the the Cuyahoga County Engineer's Office, documenting Engineer's Office projects to install and maintain the civil infrastructure ...

The Cuyahoga County Public Library Collection

The images reproduced here currently are courtesy of the South Euclid Historical Society and represent Cuyahoga County Public Library's inaugural effort to digitally preserve and present images that ...

The Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum Collection

The Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum was established in 1975 to preserve the traditions and histories of Cleveland ethnic communities. Although the museum closed in 1981, it was able to capture ...

The Jack London Online Collection

Jack London (born Jan. 12, 1876, died Nov. 22, 1916) is best known for his books The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf, and a few short stories, such as "To Build a Fire" and "The White ...

The Photograph Albums of Glenallen

Like the other Severance estates that lined Taylor and Mayfield Roads in Cleveland Heights in the early 20th century, the life of Glenallen, the estate of Elisabeth Severance Allen Prentiss, was also ...

The September 11 Digital Archive: Saving the Histories of September 11, 2001

Permanent digital archive of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Contains first hand accounts, emails, weblogs, audio and moving images, documents, and interviews. Also ...

The Shaker Heights Collection

Founded in 1912, Shaker Heights is situated on the eastern side of Cleveland, Ohio. Famous for its planned garden-city design, neo- traditional architecture,and green spaces, the city of Shaker ...

The Tibetan & Himalayan Library

The Tibetan and Himalayan Library (THL) is a publisher of websites, information services, and networking facilities relating to the Tibetan plateau and southern Himalayan regions. THL promotes the ...

The View from Here

Digitization of materials in a variety of formats - audio, video, text and images - documenting the local manifestation of events or movements of national importance (the Vietnam War, Civil Rights, ...

The Walt Whitman Archive

The Walt Whitman Archive is an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman's vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and ...

The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad: Cleveland's Iron Cross

The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad (WLE) was founded in 1871 and it was originally designed to span the distance from the Ohio River through the coal fields of southeastern Ohio to the ports on Lake ...

The WTO History Project

Our unique collection of interviews with protest organizers and participants sheds light on the behind-the-scenes cooperative (and sometimes contentious) relationships among social movement ...

Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film

Theodore Roosevelt was the first U.S. president to have his career and life chronicled on a large scale by motion picture companies (even though his predecessors, Grover Cleveland and William McKinley ...

UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Brian Urquhart Collection on Ralph J. Bunche

Collection consists of papers of, about, and collected by Ralph J. Bunche and later used by his colleague and biographer, Brian Urquhart. Includes manuscripts, his notebooks, project files, audiotape ...

Veterans History Project

With Public Law 106-380, signed by President Bill Clinton in October 2000, Congress directed the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress to develop and coordinate a program to collect and ...

Western Waters Digital Library

The Western Waters Digital Library (WWDL) is dedicated to providing access to water-related resources about the Trans-Mississippi region of North America. The currently available resources include ...

WSU Libraries Digital Collections

The Digital Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University (WSU) Libraries is an expanding series of collections that provide access to maps, historical photos and texts. ...

WTO Seattle Collection

A collection of interviews and images depicting the protests of the WTO ministerial meeting held in Seattle on November 29 - December 3, 1999. The collection illustrates the efforts to bring activists ...

Yesterday's Lakewood

This illustrated history consists of over 2,500 photographic images from the Lakewood Historical Society and Cleveland State University Special Collections. The site gives viewers an opportunity to ...