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Cousins Bobby Dennison (71) and Patricia Frazier (72) speak about their family history as Clotilda descendants. The Clotilda was the last slave ship to arrive in the US. The two discuss the lives of their ancestors Lottie and James, highlighting...

Talk with my dad about how the big moments in his life shaped him and his perspective.

"Everyone has a part to play. If we all do our part as a member of the team, the puzzle comes together and we can lessen human suffering." Lieutenant Dan Unsworth of the Watertown Police Department talks about helping direct...

Maya Scott-Chung and Shirin Bridges talk about Maya's involvement with StoryCorps and Shirin's work as a writer.

This interview is for an Oral History Project for my Creative Writing class. I am recording this interview in Miami, Florida for Saint Brendan High School. In this interview with my dad, Jose Cisneros, I dive into topics such as...

The authors of “I, Too, Sing America: The African American Book of Days” reflect on images from Library of Congress and propose a new project

Inducted 2012 in the field of Government/Public Service

Marvin Nicholson (85) and his daughter, Crystal Carpenter (57), talk about the Civil War and the role of the United States Colored Troops. He shares how he got involved in Civil War reenactments and reflects on the intricate and complicated...

Coworkers, Christine Peoples [no age given] and Matt Coats (45), sit down for a conversation about the relocation and restoration of Timmons Hall and how teamwork is vital to their work at the Springfield-Greene County Park Board.

Logan Hebner (57) talks with his friend Michael Plyler (57) about how they met, stories from their restaurant The Bit and Spur, and their collaborative project to record oral histories of the Southern Paiute indians.

Barbara Huntley (67) talks with her husband Horace Huntley (68) about childhoods, courtship, and children.

Ms Betty Carner moved to the Chicora/Cherokee community when North Charleston was first incorporated as a town in 1972. Her father-in-law Mr. Carner was a well known farmer who has a street named nearby after him. Ms Betty was a...

Jessica interviews her father, Brian to tell his history.

Andrew Burdick and Dave West in their third Storycorps Connect interview. Dave explains the background of Odyssey of the Mind, an organization he has volunteered with for ~20 years. He then recounts some of his favorite anecdotes of moments of...

"Call volume in general is down...there's a lot of people who have really been afraid to go to the hospital so they haven't called us, because they don't want to go to the hospital and risk getting infected with COVID."...

Friends, colleagues, and partners in "good trouble," Delaitre Jordan Hollinger [no age given] and Jacqueline Yvonne Perkins (64), sit down for a conversation about their family history, their current projects, and the importance of preserving African American history.

Erica Brown is a renown blues musician and a social activist. In this interview, we explore the history, power, and identity of the blues.

Alva talks to the Luboffs about their many years of life in New Providence

Marta Pearson (72) talks with her friend DeAnna Hadley (52) about sympathy, empathy, racism, the pain it causes and the need for African-American stories to be shared. She describes seeing a raw cotton field for the first time, being denied...

Larry Crawford (68) asks his father Charles W. Crawford [no age given] about growing up on a farm in Arkansas in the 1930s, what influenced him to pursue higher education, and about his career in archiving oral history.

Deborah Clark (60) interviews her friend and colleague, Dr. Kimberly Scott [no age given], about her career, the different museums she has visited, and the people she considers her heroes.

Kathy Purnell (54) interviews colleague Buddy Hannah (74) about his life and work in the arts, particularly his approach to building and celebrating community through this work.

Interview with Oma: Christine Henry my grandmother

Lusharon Wiley (70) and her fiancé Ernest Dawson (70) discuss Ernest's family, his time attending Pensacola High School during integration, being the first black football player on the team, his time at Tuskegee University and those who encouraged him along...

Charles Kuner (84) talks to friend Crispien Van Aelst (51) about his decades-long career as a history teacher in the Chicago Public Schools. Charles reflects on growing up in the Lawndale neighborhood, his philosophy of teaching, and the state of...