Related Work
The MLN recognizes the ongoing work of institutions around the world that engages the human narrative in the processes of increasing cultural understanding, documenting and examining history, and making meaningful connections among objects and ideas.
Several international museums and cultural organizations have undertaken projects with oral history components. The summaries and links found in this section of the site connect to some of these online projects and are presented here to illustrate the wide range of approaches to collecting and presenting oral histories online. To learn about Collecting Stories: Connecting Objects projects funded by the Museum Loan Network, visit the Demonstration Projects section of this site.
Voices of Civil Rights
This project is a collaboration of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and AARP.
Remembering Jim Crow
Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South. This is an outgrowth of the Duke University oral history project, Behind the Veil.
Flint Auto Workers Strike
This site is dedicated to exploring the United Auto Workers strike of 1936. The site uses oral histories online to tell the story.
Campfire Stories
Campfire Stories uses art, artifacts, and primary source texts to bridge American history, geography, art appreciation, environmental conservation, and multicultural studies. The site and its lesson plans were developed in consultation with a panel of teachers.
Survivors of the Holocaust
The Shoah Foundation archive contains videotaped eyewitness accounts of events before, during, and after the Holocaust. Testimonies ranging in length from 2 hours to 18 hours.
Discover Nikkei
The website functions as an interactive database, forum, and community-building center where visitors have access to educational resources, tools and "best practices" in the preservation and documentation of collections related to the Nikkei experience.
Migrating Memories
MIME consisted of four parts: Workshops with young immiprojects about the importance of safe-keeping memories, a dramatized traveling exhibition, an interactive multilingual web site and a closing two-day seminar on the methods and importance of incorporating migration memory and cultural heritage and identity in museums.
Cheyenne Visions II
Cheyenne Visions II was conceived by Gordon Yellowman Sr. to encourage Cheyenne people and the general public to explore the meaning of Cheyenne objects and historical accounts of the Cheyenne.
Historical Voices
Based at Michigan State University, the Historical Voices website is a significant, fully searchable online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century - the first large-scale repository of its kind. Historical Voices both provides storage for these digital holdings and displays public galleries that cover a variety of interests and topics. The primary goals of Historical Voices are to develop both a rich set of exhibits and educational curricula that fully incorporate sound files. This site also has useful information about digitization of sound files and other technical procedures.