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United States History: Oral Histories

What is oral history?

Featured oral history

Thomas Dixon, President of the Tacoma Urban League 
Thomas Dixon
Tacoma Urban League President for more than 30 years

Local Oral History Collections

For published collections of oral histories, use the UW Libraries Catalog and search using the terms oral history or oral histories or interviews. This search will also locate oral histories that may be in Special Collections (on the Seattle campus).

More Oral History Collections

Below is a selective list of digitized oral history collections from around the country.