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History : American: Primary Sources: Letters, Diaries & Oral Histories
A research guide to primary and secondary sources for American history. Also see the African American & Asian American history guides.
Images: oral history interview of Ruby Inouye, 1881 letter from Henry Bellows to Clara Barton, 1994 birthday card to Rosa Parks,
1917 diary of George S. Patton & oral history interview of Charles V. Johnson
Letters & Diaries
Check Primary Sources: Government Documents & Presidential Papers for correspondence dealing with presidents. To find published letters and diaries available at the UW Libraries use the following search terms in UW Libraries Search: correspondence or diaries
- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories. This link opens in a new window
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- North American Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new window
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Digitized Collections of Oral Histories
To find published oral histories available in the UW Libraries use UW Libraries Search with the terms: oral history or oral histories or interviews. For example: interviews civil rights. This search will also find oral history transcripts housed in Special Collections. This is just a selected list of digitized oral histories available on the web.
Major collections:
- DenshoVideo oral histories of Japanese American's experience during the World War II era.
- Veteran's History ProjectInterviews with veterans from World War II to the present.