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Who Supports
The Inclusion of Oral History?
It's not just our Adkins' Family that believes Oral History matters.
So who else supports this proven and accepted methodology?
Only the U.S. Federal Government!
Only Local U.S. Government!
Only the U.S. Military!
Only Academia!
Only Historical Societies and Agencies around the globe!
Only anybody and everybody important in the scheme of things, lol!
If a genealogist tells you that oral history does not matter, tell them that they are inept and need to find another hobby!
See below if you don't believe me! And these are only a FEW!
Government Agencies!
The Library of Congress:
https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/bib/loc.natlib.afc2001001.119852
THE Smithsonian:
The National Archives:
https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/oral-histories
The National Parks Service:
https://www.nps.gov/jeff/learn/historyculture/oralhistory.htm
The U.S. Navy:
NASA (yes, THAT NASA!):
The State of New York:
The State of Ohio (Ohio Humanities Council):
https://ong.ohio.gov/stories/2014/Sept/OralHistoryProject.pdf
The State of Kentucky:
https://kdla.ky.gov/librarians/kits/Pages/Adult/Oral-History.aspx
The State of West Virginia:
https://wvculture.org/?s=oral+history
The West Virginia State Archives:
https://archive.wvculture.org/history///////////collections/Sc2003-135/mdcoralbai07.html
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum:
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn507379
Academia
John Hopkins University:
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/40353Emory University:
Emory University:
https://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/HS-S021/
The University of North Carolina (UNC):
Texas A&M:
https://www.tamuc.edu/oral-history-project/
The University of Texas:
https://voces.lib.utexas.edu/collections/stories
Morehead State University:
https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/oral_histories/
Ohio State University:
https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/403/browse?type=title
Cleveland State University:
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/crohc/
Columbus State University:
https://library.columbia.edu/collections/oral-history-portal.html
Marshall University:
University of Kentucky:
https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/
Youngstown State University:
http://www.maag.ysu.edu/oral_hist
University of Kentucky:
https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/
Western Kentucky University:
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3548&context=dlsc_mss_fin_aid
Eastern Kentucky University:
Hazard Community College:
https://hazard.kctcs.libguides.com/c.php?g=832950&p=5958803
Radford University:
http://mlalone.asp.radford.edu/Coal_Mining_Heritage_Oral_History_Project.html
Lamar University:
https://www.lamar.edu/library/services/university-archive/Finding%20Guides/oral-history.html
Winthrop University:
https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/oralhistoryprogram_nehc/index.html
Georgia State University:
https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/87817
https://digital.libraries.ou.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/indianpp/id/2975/rec/14
University of Tennessee:
https://digital.lib.utk.edu/collections/islandora/object/wwiioh%3A2567
Historical Societies, Museums, and Other Agencies
Saponi Town
American Institute of Physics:
https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/4654-1
Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation:
https://www.mhanation.com/history
Ohio Psychological Association:
https://ohpsych.org/page/Interviews
Low Country Digital Library:
https://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/lcdl/catalog/246432
Imperial War Museums:
https://www.iwm.org.uk/search/global?query=oral+history