Save a story of someone you love or a history you would love to know.

Learn how to capture an oral history from start to finish, with hands-on practice, led by the Special Collections Dept. oral history trainer.

• Choose your narrator and goals
• Prepare questions
• Master effective interview techniques
• Protect your narrator's right to privacy and dignity
• Know production methods and equipment to record, preserve, and share your interviews
• Practice interviewing other participants with a Pratt Oral History Digital Audio Kit
• Review oral history interviews of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, and civil rights activist Gloria Richardson