Identity elements
Reference code
ASM0700
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Collection
Title
StoryCorps-Warmamas Community Archive
Date(s)
- 2013-2015 (Creation)
Extent
67 Items
Name of creator
Administrative history
The StoryCorps oral histories project began in 2003 as an effort to “provide people of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share and preserve the stories of our lives.” As of 2015, the project has recorded more than 50,000 interviews with more than 90,000 participants. The work of StoryCorps provides an “invaluable archive for future generations,” and is housed at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
The StoryCorps-Warmamas Community Archive (2013-2015) is a collection of interviews with enlisted men and women, veterans, their family and friends. The collaboration between StoryCorps and Warmamasis part of StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative which serves as a platform to allow military families to share their experiences. Warmamas also places a special emphasis on intervieweing women whose children were deployed to serve in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. As a repository for personal reflections on the ramifications of war, the collection includes individual testimonies and helps to document American history.
System of arrangement
This collection is arranged by interviewee.
Conditions of access and use elements
Conditions governing access
This collection is available for viewing on-site from the Special Collection's reading room and from the University of Miami Richter Library. Please contact Special Collections the following phone number: 305-284-3580 or email: asc.library@miami.edu to listen to the interivews. Special Collections is located at the Otto G. Richter Library on the Coral Gables campus of the University of Miami at 1300 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, Florida 33124.
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Technical access
Conditions governing reproduction
Courtesy of StoryCorps, a national nonprofit dedicated to recording and collecting stories of everyday people. Any other uses of this material--for commercial or non-commercial distribution, editing, exhibition, publishing, publicly performing, publicly displaying, reproducing on a website, or quotation beyond "fair use"--requires the permission of StoryCorps. For clearance, please contact StoryCorps at http://storycorps.org/about/inquiries/.
Languages of the material
- English
- Spanish
Scripts of the material
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Generated finding aid
Acquisition and appraisal elements
Custodial history
Immediate source of acquisition
Gift of Patricia Sowers and StoryCorps, 2015.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information
Accruals
Related materials elements
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related archival materials
Caribbean Diaspora Oral History Collection - Patricia Sowers, Director/Founder, Warmamas.
StoryCorps Historias Interviews Collection, 2009-2010
StoryCorps Military Voices Initiative
StoryCorps Historias Digital Collection
Information about related materials is available at http://www.warmamas.com/
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Name access points
- StoryCorps (Project) (Creator)