Zone d'identification
Nom et localisation du dépôt
Niveau de description
Collection
Titre
StoryCorps - Warmamas community archive
Date(s)
- 2013-2015 (Production)
Importance matérielle
67 Items
Nom du producteur
Histoire administrative
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.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
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 interviewing 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.
Mode de classement
This collection is arranged by interviewee.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
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 interviews. 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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Accès technique
Conditions de 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/.
Langue des documents
- anglais
- espagnol
Écriture des documents
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Éléments d'acquisition et d'évaluation
Historique de la conservation
Source immédiate d'acquisition
Gift of Patricia Sowers and StoryCorps, 2015.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
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Sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Sources complémentaires
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/
Digitized materials may be accessed through the University of Miami Digital Collections site:
https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/asm0700