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Dr. Donald Felder (73) and talks with fellow historian and friend, Delbert Richardson (68), about growing up in Seattle and living through busing in the city. Dr. Felder was one of the first black students to be bused to a...

July 26, 1964 description of a surprise stroll around the White House drive with The Johnsons

I’m Zayda Goodell, my uncle Matthew Knodel and I conducted this interview in Spokane Washington. I am 18 years old, and my uncle is 41 years old. During this interview we discussed what it was like starting a business and...

I talked with my dad about his work and some things from his childhood.

me and my mom talked about all sorts of stuff!

Jarrod Sport (37) interviews conversation partner and new friend Dr. Donald Felder (73) about his personal experience with school desegregation.

My Mother’s Favorite Holiday Memory

Me and my grandpa talking about how his life has been going and my questions (I accidentally recorded after i was done and was talking to my mom)

This was my brother-in-law Clint and through the interview we talked about life struggles and the lessons that came out of them. We also talked about personal struggles and how to deal with that and make personal progress. The last...

Renee Boisseau (69) and daughter Julia Carlson (31) reflect on Renee's mother's life and career in nursing.

Nina Wagner (47) interviews her father, Neal Seidler (77), about his childhood growing up on a dairy farm.

Selina Everson (Kaseix) told Alice Taff (Wudashéeyi Tláa) about growing up in a small Native community and learning about her culture. She talked about attending and working in Native boarding schools and discussed her experience teaching young Tlingit children about...

Kristy Jessica is a full time traveling model and film-maker who has embraced van living. She talks about how she got into it, what she loves and hate about it.

John Friedrich (56) talks with his friend Bob Alpern (92) about the time that Bob stood up at a Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra concert, and urged them to not play at the inauguration of President Nixon in 1973, as a protest...

Barbara (67) talks to her colleague Carol (60) about her career as a Public Relations and Journalism Professor at Howard University.

Katie Spellman (36) speaks with her mentor and collaborator, Christa Mulder (no age given), about their relationship, their pathways in science, what makes for a good mentor and collaborator, and what they have learned from each other.

Rosalie Dance (73) speaks to her friend, Marilyn Clark (70), about growing up in the small town of Jersey Mills, PA. As a college student, Rosalie became involved in a Quaker group. She later became a professor of mathematics, which...

He’s my favorite person but he doesn’t even know.

One Small Step conversation partners Derek Scheuerman (23) and Jay Russell (27) are acquaintances who learn more about each other discussing the commonalities and differences in their upbringings, hardships they've faced, religious identities, gender identities, and goals for the future.

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

A Nana tells her grandson what it was like growing up in the country and city during the Second World War, being Black in segregated America, and other challenges she faced later in life.

Tracy Shaughnessy [no age given] discusses with her childhood friend Gail Mondoux [no age given] her tumultuous childhood being adopted by alcoholic parents and her experience as a white student attending a predominately black school through Seattle's desegregation bussing programs.

Sixty-two years together and just as playful as when they first met.

Spouses David Hundley (68) and Abigail Hundley (60) speak about David's experience growing up Black in Seattle.

"Life in the priesthood is one of humility," says Michael Hennessy in this interview recorded shortly before his May 2018 ordination as a priest. Hennessy is a New Englander who started thinking about being a priest when he was teaching...