Women's Oral History Collection Links


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  1. National Archives of Singapore: This site has an archival collection that includes oral histories of women who live in Singapore area.
  2. Northwest Oral History Project: This site and project was created to collect and preserve Oregon history. Included in the collection are topics like "Oregon Women in Government" and "Northwest Women's History: World War II Shipyards."
  3. Oral History of Rhode Island Women during WWII: This site and project entitled "What did you do in the war, Grandma?" examines the roles of women in Rhode Island during World War II.
  4. Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College: This site and project documents the history of women in the United States. Included in the collection is a black women's oral history project.
  5. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: This national research library is devoted to "collecting, preserving and providing access to information on the experiences of peoples of African descent." Topics included in the collection are 19th century African-American writers and images of 19th century African-Americans. Women's oral histories can be found in the Hatch-Billops Collection.
  6. Southern Oral History Program: This site and project was created to "foster a critical, yet democratic understanding of the South- its history, culture, problems, and prospects." Included in the collection are interviews with Southern women and women in American History.
  7. State Historical Society of Wisconsin Archives: This site and archives was created to present the oral history of Wisconsin and the state's history. Included in the collection are letters and papers written by Midwestern women.
  8. Texas Woman's University Library Woman's Collection: This site and project was created to record the voices of women in a variety of fields such as education, science and sociology.
  9. University of Buffalo-Women's History Collection: This site and project focuses on the women of the Buffalo, NY region.
  10. University of California-Berkeley: This site and project is an oral history of women who were involved in the suffragists movement.
  11. University of Connecticut Center for Oral History: This site houses the collections of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. Included in the collection is "Women's Words/Women's Quilts", a series of interviews with 10 Connecticut women who discuss the role of quilting in their lives.
  12. University of Southern Mississippi: This site and project is based on the colorful oral history of Mississippi and its people and cultures. Included in the collection are interviews with women and the role they played in Mississippi's history.
  13. University of Washington-Suzzallo Library: This site and project was created to collect oral histories from a variety of female Washington state residents. Included in the collection are letters, manuscripts and photographs of women of the Northwest.
  14. Wisconsin State AFL-CIO: This site provides an oral history of Wisconsin and its labor movement. Included in the collection are the roles women played and the importance of their roles in the labor movement.
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    Oral History Projects With No Website Address Available

    1. African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamica Memory Bank: The purpose of this project was to conduct oral histories that focused on Jamaican women in World War II. For further information contact, Bernard Jankee at bjankee@cwjamaica.com
    2. "In the Morning We Had Bulldog Gravy: Women in the Coal Camps of the Appalachian South, 1900-1940": A series of oral histories done by Glenna Horne Graves for her Ph.D. dissertation. For further information contact, Glenna Horne Graves at penmoken@earthlink.net
    3. Heritage Partnerships: Millie Rahn, folklorist, created this oral history project for another Seven Sisters or Seven Siblings college. She has interviewed numerous women. For further information contact, Millie Rahn at Club47@aol.com
    4. Homesteading Women: Julie Jones-Eddy did a project on homesteading women in Colorado. For further information contact, Julie Jones-Eddy at jjones@cc.colorado.edu
    5. Loughborough University, England; Julie Woodfield created a website for her Ph.D. dissertation on the experience of women workers in skilled industry in Derby during the war period. For further information contact, Julie Woodfield at J.Woodfield-97@student.lboro.ac.uk
    6. University of Minnesota Law School: A compilation of women attorney's oral histories is being done by Professor Carol Chomsky. For further information contact, Prof. Carol Chomsky at choms001@tc.umn.edu

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