Oral Histories, Memoirs, Interviews
- HistoryMakers: African American Video Oral History Collection This link opens in a new windowHistoryMakers is a collection of video oral history interviews with historically significant African Americans. Transcripts are included with the interviews.
- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories This link opens in a new window
Letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories; much material was unpublished.
- Television Academy Foundation InterviewsOver 900 oral history interviews from the Television Academy Foundation of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
eBooks at BU Libraries: Oral Histories & Interviews
The following eBooks represent a sample of oral histories and interviews available through BU Libraries. You can browse a long list via BU Libraries Search.
Generation on Fire by ISBN: 0813138469Publication Date: 2006-12-29In Generation on Fire, oral historian Jeff Kisseloff provides an eclectic and personal account of the political and social activity of the decade. Among other things, the book offers firsthand accounts of what it was like to face a mob's wrath in the segregated South and to survive the jungles of Vietnam.
Habits of Change by ISBN: 9780199757060Publication Date: 2011-06-01A collection of extraordinary oral histories of American nuns, Habits of Change captures the experiences of women whose lives over the past fifty years have been marked by dramatic transformation. Bringing together women from more than 40 different religious communities, most of whom entered religious life before Vatican II, the book shows how their lives were suddenly turned around in the 1960s.
Freedom on the Border by ISBN: 9780813173634Publication Date: 2009-06-26Memories fade, witnesses pass away, and the stories of how social change took place are often lost. Many of those stories, however, have been preserved thanks to the dozens of civil rights activists across Kentucky who shared their memories in the wide-ranging oral history project from which this volume arose. In Freedom on the Border: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky, Catherine Fosl and Tracy E. K'Meyer gather the voices of more than one hundred courageous crusaders for civil rights, many of whom have never before spoken publicly about their experiences.
