The Naval Historical Center has a number of oral histories online, linked from our FAQs. Here are URLs for a few: Master Chief Boatswain's Mate Carl Brashear (played by Cuba Gooding, Jr. in Men of Honor) http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq105-1.htm USS Indianapolis http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq30-1.htm Navy Nurses http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq50-1.htm Pearl Harbor http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq66-1.htm Navy Women http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq48-1.htm Wade Wyckoff ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Wade D. Wyckoff Archivist Operational Archives Branch Naval Historical Center 805 Kidder Breese Street SE Washington Navy Yard, DC 20374 (202) 433-3224 (202) 433-2833 (fax) http://www.history.navy.mil ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ---------- >From: Beth Harris <bharris@HOLLINS.EDU> >To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU >Subject: online oral histories >Date: Mon, Jan 28, 2002, 1:01 PM > > I am doing BI (Bibliograhic Instruction) for a professor who's teaching an > anthropology course in life histories/self-narratives. She's hoping that > her students will be able to look at some oral histories online (re: the > Holocaust, in particular, though any topic is also good). > > Does anyone know of any transcripts, etc. that might be available online > that our students could use--any topic is fine. (We've got transcripts and > tapes here at the University Archives but not in large quantities). > > Thanks for your help! > > **************************************************************************** > Beth S. Harris > Special Collections Management Librarian > Wyndham Robertson Library > P. O. Box 9000 / 7950 E. Campus Drive > Hollins University > Roanoke, VA 24020-1000 > Phone: (540) 362-6237 > Fax: (540) 362-6756 > Web site: www.hollins.edu/academics/library > > A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List! > > To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to listserv@listserv.muohio.edu > In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname > *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES > To post a message, send e-mail to archives@listserv.muohio.edu > > Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at > http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html > > Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <rschmidt@lib.muohio.edu> |