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.
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.
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.
Lives Well Lived
This is a lovely documentary by Sky Bergman, featuring active elderly adults with incredible stories.
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).
Oral History Master of Arts, Columbia University
OHMA teaches oral history as a practice of co-creating dialogic, critical conversations about the past, in the present, which are oriented towards the future. They also present public workshops and presentations, which are always incredibly informative and well-facilitated.