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:
TLA Network
Transformative Language Arts (TLA) is a field for practitioners who change the world with words. TLA-ers are activists, teachers, storytellers, coaches, mental health professionals, writers, poets, librarians, facilitators, performers and more.
StoryCorps
StoryCorps is committed to the idea that everyone has an important story to tell and that everyone’s story matters. Many of the stories that StoryCorps features are interviews between loved ones, which can be freeing or not (or both, even in the same interview).