Smithsonian intern shares her experience observing an oral history interview for We Do Declare, highlighting how women’s voices are preserved and amplified through storytelling. Maggie Tsai, a 2025 ...

When's the last time you asked your grandmother to tell you *** story? Did you write it down? If you head to the Cambridge Foundry's jukebox, you'll find an interactive art exhibit that holds oral ...

An interview with Krzysztof Wodiczko conducted 2020 July 23, by Benjamin Gillespie, for the Archives of American Art's Pandemic Oral History Project at Wodiczko's home in Maine. This interview is part ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns discussed the complex challenge of telling America’s story. They ...

An interview with Barbara Rose conducted 2010 June 25-September 22, by James McElhinney, for the Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts Project, at Rose's homes in New York City and ...

Ben Gillespie, the Arlene and Robert Kogod Secretarial Scholar for Oral History, reflects on four oral history interviews recently conducted for the Archives of American Art Ben Gillespie In 2021, the ...

What do you know about your family’s history? Maybe someone in your family marched for civil rights or immigrated from another country. Maybe there was an interesting element to the way they grew up.

Grady Wilson Powell Sr. grew up hearing about the moment in 1865 when his grandfather, born into slavery in Virginia, learned he was free. “The story is, from oral tradition, that my grandfather just ...