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:
Institute for Oral History, Baylor University
The Institute for Oral History creates oral history memoirs by preserving a sound recording and transcript of interviews with individuals who are eyewitnesses to history. Excellent workshops and resources on the site.
Zinn Education Project
Based on the approach to history highlighted in Howard Zinn’s best-selling book A People’s History of the United States, Zinn Education Project’s teaching materials emphasize the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history. The teaching materials are a valuable and great start to understanding what stories in our history are untold, or under-told.
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).