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Learn about Oral History!

               Hello everyone! In today’s blog post I will be discussing oral history. You may ask yourself “what is oral history?” Well, oral history can have different meanings but the definition is the collection and study of historical information using sound recordings of interviews with people having personal knowledge of past events. Oral history plays a big part in history because instead of reading the information provided it can be helpful but listening to someone describe the past events gives you a better understanding. You can hear the person's tone of voice of the interviewer and the interviewee and hear how they feel about the questions being asked. An example of oral history is you can look at is the Stanford Historical Society's Oral History Program . These stories are public and they explain the history of the University. This collection had over a hundred projects with audio and some with transcripts. This website I have fo...

Learn About Archives With Me!

     Hi everyone! In today’s entry, I will be discussing archives. When I first started searching for an archive it’s important to find one that is interesting to you. At first, I had no idea what an archive was and I have never done anything like it before. Once I started to get a glimpse of archives, I started by typing in “National Archives” into Google to find a broad variety of different ones. You may ask yourself what is an archive? An archive online can be a visual representation of a collection of historical documents or records including information about a place, institution, or group of people. Although a conventional archive may not be, in this case, I will be discussing online archives.  There are many ways to create different archives and as you may know,  if you read my about me post "meet the face behind the post" I am a Criminal Justice major. I enjoy learning about things related to that. So I ended up find a Nation Archive of Crim...