By Zoya Brumberg http://www.climatestoriesproject.org/ “Climate Stories Project” (CSP) is an educational and creative forum for discussing climate change and its effects on global communities. Its purpose is to collect oral histories about the experiential effects of climate change to establish curricula and workshops that introduce a personal approach to educating children, teenagers, adults, and teachers […]
Women’s March on Washington Oral History Project
On January 21, 2017, students and staff from the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPHOP) at the University of Florida travelled to the Women’s March on Washington as part of an experiential learning project. Their goal was to interview people with diverse viewpoints and backgrounds at the inauguration and the Women’s March and to learn […]
Border Public History
By Edward Shore Border Public History is an initiative of the History Department at the University of Texas-El Paso to preserve the public history of the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez metropolitan area. Directed by Dr. Yolanda Chávez Leyva of the UTEP History Department, Border Public History fosters collaboration among historians and the general public to “recuperate […]
VOCES Oral History Project
By Valerie Ann Martínez Voces is an ongoing collaborative effort between UT students, faculty, and community participants to record and preserve the history of Latina and Latinos living during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Since its origin in 1999, the project has collected nearly 1,000 interviews documenting the experiences of Latina […]