For those of you in the 7-9:30pm class...this particular post is an in-class activity. We'll do this one together in-class...the Turkel post, below, is the one you'll have to respond to before class.
We're going to do a little research today on oral histories.
There are a number of sites that host various kinds of oral histories. For example, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has some on their site at: http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/phistories/
I want you to do your own online research and find an interesting site that inlcudes other kinds of oral histories. Post the URL as a comment along with a description of the site.
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http://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/Interviews/alberts_howard_kirkpatrick.html
http://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/Interviews/alberts_howard_kirkpatrick.html
its about a guy that fought in korea and his life leading up to it
http://www.audiomurphy.com/clipsofweek/audioclips.htm
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3461253043232819619&q=oral+history+of+the+texas&total=12&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2. This is an oral history of the life and times of T.V. legend Don Knotts.
http://www.fishingkites.co.nz/sharks/greatwhitesharkattack.html
SHARK ATTACk
http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/3women2.htm
it is about a woman that lived in cambodia.
http://www.galapagos.to/ORALHIST/INDEX.HTM
This link talks about the people of the Galápagos Islands. At first it has a very informative section about the islands telling you about the people, land, and animals. This introduction helps to know a few facts about the islands. After this is has three oral histories with people telling about their lives on these islands. The stories told are interesting because the way of life on these islands are different from the way of life here.
http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/interviews/andreagassi.html
Andre Agassi has always been an idol of mine, especially during the time that I was playing tennis. This interview focuses on his retirement, his career and how he changed over the years.
http://hurricanekatrina.med.harvard.edu/oralhistories-archived.php
The website listed has about 200 oral histories from Hurricane Katrina survivors. The one I listened to was a woman describing her experience; she refused to evacuate because she thought the storm wasn't really going to happen, and the day before the storm hit, her family practically abducted her, saving her life. Her home was destroyed, but her family was safe, and that is all she cared about.
http://www.besthistorysites.net/WWii.shtml
this is a oral history of how life was during world war II. It is a 10 min video clip.
http://www.steelergridiron.com/history/myroncope.html
myron cope was the steelers annoucer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZi2ryWsShY
^the immaculate reception
http://www.usm.edu/crdp/html/transcripts/manuscript-miller-james-p_sr.shtml
This is about civil rights activist that took the American Paper company to court over firing him for suggesting improvements to his supervisor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?vjAeRrYit03E
-It is a survival story of a camp Auschwitz inmate during World War II. He also speaks of his encounter one of one with a Nazi soldier.
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/coh/cohharris-stewartl.html
This oral history is between an interviewer and a women basketball player. They discuss her life leading up to her playing in college and so on and the issues she faced as a women playing basketball
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1N9AmN5Qj7k
This is an interview of Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust in Auschwitz. He's a Nobel Peace Prize winner and talks about how important it is to educate children about the mistakes that have been made in the past so they will not repeat them in the future. He also talks about how presently the world is not learning from the mistakes of the past.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2295922
This is an oral history from ESPN. Pete Rose talks about his status in relation to major league baseball.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/met_WTC_histories_full_01.html
This is a group of oral histories from 9/11...Marcel Claes is an interesting one, its about a firefighter who was in the north tower
http://www.duke.edu/web/hst195.15/
This website has 7 or 8 pictures of african americans and their oral histories on some of their experiences
http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/oral_hst.htm
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This site has about 12 oral histories from Cambodian citizens who survived the Khmer Rouge reign when the Vietamese invaded Cambodia where they forced many people out of their cities.
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/interviews/oral_history_of_slayer.html
Its a metal version of an oral history.
http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/children.htm
This is about a young Jewish boy growing up in Poland during the Holocaust
http://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/Interviews/kroesen_frederick.html
The Article is about an Army general in the Vietnam conflict. Not Sure if he was a general at the time or not. Interesting though.
http://tellingstories.org/index.html
Gives stories from people in WWII, from Holocaust survivors to people fighting in the war liberating them. Also gives an account of some Japanese people who were put into American interment camps.
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/resources/narratives/Nobuo_Honda.htm
This is about a man who is from Hawaii and is visiting the mainland US for the first time and experiences Jim Crow laws.
http://www.southernfoodways.com/oral_history/neworleans_eats/hansens.shtml
This is site contains an oral history about Gerard Hansen and his daughter Ashley Hansen. They own a sno-ball stand in New Orleans. A sno-ball is a hybrid of a snow cone and a slushy puppy, truly fascinating stuff. I better win that grape popsicle or I will be so pissed.
http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/oralhistory/interviews/browse/oho.php
This site contains interviews with Vietnam War veterans.
Michael L. O'Brien serevd in the U.S. Navy from 1944 until 1946. He was assigned to the USS Frank E. Evans while the ship was under construction. During his time aboard the Evans, he served as a Radioman and witnessed a Kamikaze attack. The interview was conducted by Robert Tidwell.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/categories/c1204/index.shtml
it relates to many different people in the war, prisoners and men and women in the army, also doctors. Bunch of stuff
http://www.abc.net.au/blackfriday/oral/oral_ernie_lebrun.htm
This Oral History is about a man involved in what they call "Black Friday The Fire of 1939 Victoria". It is a very sad account seeing as how he was responsible to help stop the fire, but in doing so he got his brother killed along with many others. They were sent up the hill to try and stop the spreading of the fire. They weren't able to though. In the fire the man lost his brother. He feels extremely guilty for making some men go back up to help when he went down to help the woman and children.
http://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/Interviews/brown_roy.html
This is an interview with Roy W. Brown. He is a WWII veteran and speaks about being present for Pearl Harbor and being overseas during WWII. He also speaks about dealing the German prisoners of war and their treatment.
http://oralhistory.minds.tv/Native/about.asp
This is a site dedicated to the oral history of native americans who participated in ww2.
http://newdeal.feri.org/sevier/interviews/index.htm
This site has 24 different oral history interviews with 24 different people about the Great Depression.
http://www.maag.ysu.edu/oralhistory/oral_hist.html
This site is a collection of oral histories with numerous different subjects.
http://www.entlink.net/history/programs/Oral-History-Hitselberger.cfm
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