Resource Library
A curated selection of resources for family historians, community archivists, documentarians, memoir writers and more.
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Categories
Thickening the Narrative: Resources to learn, deepen, and teach untold stories, from nonwhite narrative histories, to trauma-informed research and more.
Documentary Practices: Examples of documentary writing (including memoir, personal essay, journalism) fictions based on truth (historical, autofiction), photography and film, as well as tips and prompts.
Archives: Examples of public archives of specific communities and resources for archiving your own collections.
Classes: These resources offer classes to enhance your archiving and documentary practice skills. For workshops with Amanda, please check out the Workshops page.
Oral History: Resources to help you strengthen your skills and practices in oral history collection, as well as examples for how to present your interviews.
Featured Resources:
Southern Foodways Alliance
The Southern Foodways Alliance documents, studies, and explores the diverse food cultures of the changing American South.
Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage
The Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage has collected and preserved the stories of Mississippians from all walks of life. Housed at the University of Southern Mississippi.
American Folklife Center
American Folklife Center, a branch of the Library of Congress, is a respository of everyday folk life in America.
Archival Supplies Vendors
A list of trusted vendors for archival supplies such as photo boxes, negative sleeves, and folders.
Pictures from Home, Larry Sultan
First published in 1992 to wide critical acclaim, Pictures From Home is Larry Sultan’s pendant to his parents. We often think about archives as something that gets saved, memorialized, put away to be discovered for other generations.
Vermont Folklife
Founded in 1984, Vermont Folklife is a nationally-known education and cultural research nonprofit that uses ethnography—the study of cultural experience through interviewing, participation and observation—to strengthen the understanding of the cultural and social fabric of Vermont's diverse communities.