KUT recently recorded its 500th sonic ID. You might have heard one of these snippets on KUT over the past few years. They run anywhere from thirty seconds to a minute and a half and feature a unique tale from an Austinite. Some tell how they fell in love with Austin while others tell of meeting their spouse (typically a funny story). Collectively, the sonic IDs weave the unique fabric that is Austin and us. KUT’s site contains the entire archive.
Oral histories are a vital element in understanding history. These first-person tales provide a participant’s take on history. A basic search for “oral history” in the Austin Public Library’s catalog retrieves a plethora of interesting oral history collections. A brief sampling includes:
We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk about the Game They Loved
Israel at Sixty: a Pictorial and Oral History of a Nation Reborn
Asian Americans in the Twenty-First Century: Oral Histories of First- to Fourth-Generation Americans from China, Japan, India, Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Laos
Listening Is an Act of Love: a Celebration of American lives from the StoryCorps Project
Tower Stories: an Oral History of 9/11
Voices of Freedom: an Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s
The Library of Congress has built an impressive Veterans History Project. They also provide a nice compilation of veterans’ oral history projects spanning the spectrum of American conflict involvement.
Oral histories are a vital element in understanding history. These first-person tales provide a participant’s take on history. A basic search for “oral history” in the Austin Public Library’s catalog retrieves a plethora of interesting oral history collections. A brief sampling includes:
We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk about the Game They Loved
Israel at Sixty: a Pictorial and Oral History of a Nation Reborn
Asian Americans in the Twenty-First Century: Oral Histories of First- to Fourth-Generation Americans from China, Japan, India, Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Laos
Listening Is an Act of Love: a Celebration of American lives from the StoryCorps Project
Tower Stories: an Oral History of 9/11
Voices of Freedom: an Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s
The Library of Congress has built an impressive Veterans History Project. They also provide a nice compilation of veterans’ oral history projects spanning the spectrum of American conflict involvement.
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