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Oral Histories: Communities, in the Berea Sound Archives

Berea Community Collection BCA 0181 - Series 5: Interracial History - Oral History Interviews

This series contains original audio and video interview recordings with transcriptions, of Berea citizens discussing race relations and the impact of the Civil Rights Movement conducted over the time period 1989-2001.

Calvert County Marine Museum
Interviews during 2005 documenting the Southern Maryland seafood industry.
Disputanta Oral History Collection, 1978-1979    
Audio recorded interviews that document the history of the Disputanta community in northern Rockcastle County, Kentucky.
Fellowship House Day Camp Oral History Collection
Interview recordings, interview logs / transcripts, photographs, and print material relating to the formation of the Knoxville, TN based Fellowship House organization and especially its integrated day camp operated 1950-1972.
Holmes County, Ohio
Interviews during 2009 documenting the nature and extent of folk arts in Holmes County, Ohio.

Middletown School History Interviews 2006 / 2016

Mount Hope, West Virginia
Pendleton County, West Virginia
Interviews during 2004 documenting the culture and history of each of the county's distinct river valleys and the county seat of Franklin.
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Interviews during 2005 documenting the multi ethnic folklife and local memory in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike

Multi-county interviews during 2007-2008 documenting such themes as Native American life, Revolutionary and Civil Wars, gristmills, waterways, slavery and the Underground Railroad, coal mining, timbering and the oil and gas boom, as well as family and community life.

Steamboat Era Museum

Interviews during 2003 with residents of Virginia Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula for whom steamboating was a daily reality, those who worked on the boats and wharves, those who rode them as passengers and crew, and those who shipped produce and manufactured items or ordered goods for delivery.

Thomas Wagner - Phillip Obermiller Appalachian Migrant Research Collection BCA 0240

Oral history interviews relating to Appalachian migrant organizations and eastern Kentucky coal company towns.

Urban Appalachian Council Records BCA 151 SAA 160

Series 10, Storytelling Project Interview Recordings

Underground Railroad Upper Ohio River Valley
Interviews during 1996 documenting Underground Railroad activity in the upper Ohio River Valley.
Wheeling, West Virginia Spoken History
Interviews during 1992-1993 documenting Wheeling, West Virginia culture, arts, work, and history.