Along the way, I have come across a variety of sites which might give you the basic idea for collecting oral histories. I would recommend you check out a number of these sites before you venture forth with this project.

http://school.newsweek.com/pages/oralhist.htm - MUST SEE!!

Local Heroes: An Oral History of World War II

University Oral History Project at the University of New South Wales

British Library National Sound Archive

Oral History on Space, Science, and Technology: An Online Catalog of the Collection of the Department of Space History, National Air and Space Museum

Social Security Administration Oral History Collection

National Park Service, Links to the Past

Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)

"California As I Saw It": First- Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900" (Library of Congress Collection)

University of Alaska at Fairbanks- Rasmuson Library Oral History Project

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