Inquiring Minds in the Library of Congress
My thanks to Erin Allen and the staff at the Library of Congress for featuring about the Federal Writers’ Project and the event at the… Read More »Inquiring Minds in the Library of Congress
These Are Our Lives
When Oral History Changed Storytelling
Every week on NPR you might hear pieces from StoryCorps. Nearly as often you might catch firsthand glimpses of history in “oral histories” without knowing… Read More »When Oral History Changed Storytelling
Ralph Ellison and Telling Stories of Invisibility
This month we marked the Ralph Ellison centennial, celebrating the author of Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. Although he became… Read More »Ralph Ellison and Telling Stories of Invisibility