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Oral History Collections

Columbia Center for Oral History
Fisk University Black Oral History Program
Note: this link leads to the Fisk University library; use the contacts there to inquire about the oral history collection

In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives This link opens in a new window
Indexes first-person accounts, including oral histories, memoirs, letters and diaries. Coverage is worldwide but content is currently mostly from the U.S. Links to digital full text where available.
Oral History Online This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing, plus some full text, for English-language oral histories that are publicly available on the Web and that are held by repositories and archives around the world. Primarily covers 20th-century America, but there is some content for other times and places.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories This link opens in a new window
Personal narratives of immigrants to the U.S. and Canada. Covers a wide range of nationalities and ethnic groups.