StoryCorps - Stories from people of all backgrounds and beliefs
WEBBrightness in Black. StoryCorps launches its newest initiative Brightness in Black, a celebration, a truth-telling, a showcase of the richness and complexity of Black life in America—with your stories front and center. Listen to stories of triumph, aspirations, resilience, and connection, and share your own. animation. 03:02.
Record the Conversation of a Lifetime - StoryCorps
WEBStoryCorps’ Mobile Tour travels across the country, partnering with local organizations to record and preserve the stories of communities.Book an appointment to record either in-person or virtually on one of our upcoming Mobile Tour stops. Since 2013, StoryCorps’ Atlanta Booth located at the Atlanta History Center has recorded and preserved thousands of conversations.
Great Questions - StoryCorps
WEBAfter 17 years of listening, we know what makes a great conversation: Ask great questions. Here are some of our suggestions for getting a good conversation going. We encourage you to use the ones you like and to come up with your own.
StoryCorps Archive
WEBMay 9, 2018 · The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress is partnering with StoryCorps to collect stories about the COVID-19 pandemic. The multiyear initiative will document, archive, and make accessible Americans’ experiences with COVID-19, to strengthen understanding of American life during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Road to Resilience: Memories that Move Us Forward
WEBIn 2019, we launched StoryCorps DIY: Road to Resilience, an online course for organizations serving children and families in grief. This course includes special resources on how to adopt our interview model for children and families who are grieving, including age-appropriate Great Questions lists, kid-friendly animations and audio clips ...
Lesson: The Power of Active Listening - StoryCorps
WEBStudents will learn about active listening by discussing an audio clip and participating in an exercise to experience what if feels like to listen and have someone listen to them. Objectives: Students will reflect on the power of listening to others, and the power of being listened to. Students will understand the definition of active […]
StoryCorps DIY – The StoryCorps Learning Hub.
WEBStoryCorps DIY is a collection of multimedia resources for educators, libraries, and nonprofit organizations who want to embed StoryCorps practices into their classrooms and communities. Our self-paced, asynchronous courses give you tools, insights, and knowledge to encourage meaningful storytelling, create connections, and …
Stories to Lift Your Spirit - StoryCorps
WEBMar 12, 2020 · Laura Greenberg grew up as part of a gregarious family in Queens, New York. Her upbringing that couldn’t be more different than that of her husband, Carl. At StoryCorps, they told their daughter about those early days — terrible first kiss and all. Read the full transcript here. story. "If you need me to hold your hand, I'm there."
“We Knew We Were the Best.” Reflections from the First
WEBA group of Montford Point volunteers in their dress uniforms circa May, 1943. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. In 1942, the U.S. allowed Black men to enlist in the Marine Corps for the first time. It was during World War II, and resulted in more than 19,000 Black recruits being sent to Montford Point, North Carolina for basic training.
My Lobotomy - StoryCorps
WEBNov 16, 2005 · Introduction On January 17, 1946 a psychiatrist named Walter J. Freeman launched a radical new era in the treatment of mental illness in this country. On that day he performed the first-ever transorbital or “ice pick” lobotomy in his Washington, D.C. office. His patient was a severely depressed housewife named …