Pre-Collegiate Oral History Projects

What follows are projects that educators have found most useful. Please note that URLs do change and material is sometimes removed from the World Wide Web. If you would like to suggest additions to this list e-mail the project coordinator (gwhitman@saes.org).

Allegany High School, Maryland Oral History Projects: The Lanaconing Silk Mill: 1907-1957; Reflection of the Silver Screen: A History of Allegany County Movie Theatres; Surviving the Great Depression: A History of Allegany County During the 1930's; Allegany County Veterans of World War II: Through Their Service; Work and Wait: Allegany County, The Home Front Years, 1941-1945 and Primetime: A History o Allegany County During the 1950's.

Anand, Bernadette, Michelle Fine, David S. Surrey and Tiffany Perkins. Keeping the Struggle Alive: Studying Desegregation in Our Town, A Guide to Doing Oral History. New York: Teachers College Press, 2002.

The Bland County History Archives, maintained by the students of Rocky Gap High School (Rocky Gap, Virginia). Available at http://www.bland.k12.va.us/bland/rocky/gap.html.

Brody, Barry, and Alan J. Singer. "Franklin K. Lane High School Oral History Project and History Magazine."

OAH Magazine of History, 4 (1990): 7-9.

D.C. Everest Area Schools: Oral History Program. http://www.dce.k12.wi.us/srhigh/socialstudies/histday/.

Countdown to Millennium: An Oral History Collection Project. http://frognet.net/countdown/.

Foxfire. http://www.foxfire.org.

Gulledge, Judy H. and Christine A. Capaci. Pennywinkle: Oral Histories from Tylerton, Smith Island in the

Chesapeake Bay. Norfolk, VA: Letto Gooch Printers, Inc., 1999.

The Hudson Falls High School World War II Living History Project. http://www.hfcsd.org/ww2/.

The Langston Hughes Middle School Project. http://www.gmu.edu/library/specialcollections/pcaoral.html/.

Llanogrande Center's Oral History Project. http://www.llanogrande.org.

Long, Long Ago Oral History project. Suva Intermediate School, Bell Gardens, California

Loudoun Valley High School (Partners with Library of Congress) Veterans Oral History Project.

http://www.loudoun.k12.va.us/schools/lvhs.

The Montana Heritage Project. http://www.edheritage.org.

Mooresville High School (Mooresville, Indiana) “We Made Do – Recalling the Great Depression.”

Available at http://ipad.mcsc.k12.in.us/mhs/social/madedo.

National History Day. http://www.nationalhistoryday.org.

Reston Reflections Oral History Archive - The Langston Hughes Middle School Project (Reston, Virginia).

Available at http://www.gmu.edu/library/specialcollections/pcaoral.html.

Rocky Gap High School Oral History and Technology Project. http://www.bland.k12.va.us/bland/rocky/gap.html.

Sharing History Project. http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/unchained_memories/sharing_history.html.

Stories of Service. http://www.stories-of-service.org/.

Visions: The Soul & Spirit of South Baton rouge Churches; Pictures in My Mind: An Oral History of South Baton Rouge Community Business and the Business Community. A collaboration between the Williams Center for Oral History at Louisiana State University and a summer program at McKinley High School. http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/williams.

Tell Me Your Story: An Oral History Curriculum for High School and Middle Schools Involving Students with their Families and Community. http://tellmeyourstories.com.

Telling Their Stories: Oral History Archives Project at the Urban School of San Francisco. http://www.tellingstories.org

Veterans History Project. http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets

Wayland High School History Project. http://whshhistoryproject.org

We Made Do: Recalling the Great Depression. http://www.mcsc.k12.in.us/mhs/social/madedo

What Did You Do in the War Grasndma? http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html

The Whole World Was Watching: 1968. http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968