1960s Oral History Project

Interview with Alli Morrow (17) and Lucy Cappa (17) interviewee Kim Davis (77), Alli’s grandfather, concerning life in the 1960s.

Memory Lane

it was her life starting from a child all the way to an adult including her school days

60’s Project Interview with Deborah

Deborah, a teen in the 60’s, very active in movements such as Anti-War, Civil Rights, environment.

Working in the US Defense Industry During the Cold War at the Northrop Corporation

Nils Kolderup discusses his career at the Northrop Corporation from the 1960s to 1994. He developed astro-intertial navigation systems and electronics which could withstand high levels of nuclear radation. We also discuss how his career influenced his perspective on the...

Creativity Inherited from a Farm Wife

My Grandmother considered the creative makings as a small farm girl and how it contributed to happily raising 5 children with very little

1960s Oral History Project

Interview with Owen’s grandmother done by Henry, Owen, and Sam about the 1960’s

“My dad couldn’t figure out why it had to be so loud.”

Keith Dick of Baytown, Texas, happens to be the nephew of Paul Revere from the 1960s/1970s rock and roll group, Paul Revere and the Raiders. Paul Revere died in 2014, but Keith has fond memories of spending time with his...

The Story of Her Life (Part 2)

In January 2023, in South Philadelphia, PA, Devon Maguire (15) interviewed her grandmother, Dr. Agnes Albany (80), about various times in her life growing up. Dr. Albany was born in 1942, and shared memories spanning from when she was a...

oral history

Dave “Big Daddy” Lindsey and Charlie talk about the 1960s.

Bridging the Gap

Interview with Laurine Roberts about Martin Luther Kings Legacy and living in Newark, NJ during the Civil Rights Era

Recollections of my parents and early life
December 22, 2019 App Interview

Jill de Castella discusses her parents and growing up in 1940s and 1950s

Jackson and Jerry Munk

Jerry Munk tells Jackson about his early life on the farm and childhood in the 1960's as well how aware he was of counterculture movements and the civil rights movement growing up on the farm.

The Great Thanksgiving Listen 2019

Josephine Cole (15) interviews her computer scientist father (Billy Cole, 50) on growing up in West Virginia, the events of September 11, 2001, religion and family. While he plays video games in the background, and her sister yells advise.

Anna Sauerbrey and her grandmother Mary Mills talk about what life was like in 50s.
November 30, 2017 App Interview

In this interview, conducted in November 2017 in Greenville, South Carolina, Anna(14) and her grandmother talk about how different life was for young people in the 1950s. They also discuss what their family was like 60 years ago. Mary talks...

A War On Two Fronts

Not long ago, people of color were more heavily mistreated, denied opportunities, and denied respect based on one thing. On November 29th, 2017, 14 year old Jason Ridley interviews his 85 year old grandfather, John Ridley III, about his time...

Noah Brooks talks to Dewain Lanfear about growing up in New York City.

In this interview recorded in Novemer of 2018 in Anderson, South Carolina, Noah Brooks (13) talks to his grandfather, Dewain Lanfear (76), about growing up in New York. We discussed his exstensive sports career and his favorite teachers among other...

Remembering Maxine McAninch Hogue in celebration of her 100th birthday

Janet Hogue Thompson (77) talks with her daughter Michelle Thompson (51) about the life of her mother Mary Maxine McAninch Hogue (1920-1993) in rural Casey County, Kentucky.

John and Meredith Stehr

Meredith Stehr (16) talks with her father John (64) about his childhood in the 1960s.