Polio
The Polio project seeks to understand, preserve, and amplify the experiences of people who were directly affected by the 20th century polio epidemic in the United States.
The Civil Rights History Project
The Civil Rights History Project is a joint undertaking of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress.
The Long Women’s Movement in the American South
The Long Civil Rights Movement initiative is a project intended to better understand how the South has been shaped by the Black and women’s liberation movements, the Vietnam War, natural disasters, and conservative politics.
Stories to Save Lives
Stories to Save Lives: Health, Illness, and Medical Care in the South seeks to bring the powerful research methodology of oral history to bear on one of the critical issues facing our region: healthcare.
Back Ways
Back Ways is a project working to understand the social experience of racial segregation in the rural South through oral history and archival research.
New Roots/Nuevas Raíces
New Roots/Nuevas Raices contains the oral histories of Latin American migrants in North Carolina and the experiences of North Carolinians that have worked for the integration of new settlers into this southern state. Latinx migrants have put down new roots in the United States South and opened up a distinct chapter in the long history of Latin American migration to the United States.
Media and the Movement
This project explores the media environment in North Carolina as shaped by local voices of print journalists, broadcasters on television and radio, community activists and organizers, about how the media adapted to, changed, and reflected a new South during and after the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.
The Long Civil Rights Movement
The Long Civil Rights Movement initiative is a project intended to better understand how the South has been shaped by the Black and women’s liberation movements, the Vietnam War, natural disasters, and conservative politics.