Loc: Immigration and Oral History

The primary goal of this activity is to give young scholars the genuine experience of oral history in order to appreciate the process of historiography. We identified immigrants in our community who reflect the ethnic diversity of our student body, enabling students to compare and contrast the stories of these contemporary immigrants with those researched in the thirties reflected in American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 and other American Memory collections. Young scholars engage in visual and information literacy exercises to gain an understanding of how to identify and interpret primary historical sources.