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StoryCorps is an American non-profit organization which aims to record, preserve, and share the stories of Americans from all backgrounds and beliefs. Its mission statement is "to help us believe in each other by illuminating the humanity and possibility in us all—one story at a time".
StoryCorps is a national nonprofit organization modeled after the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of the 1930s. In addition to collecting and archiving interviews at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, StoryCorps helps Americans engage with oral histories at the grassroots level.
David Isay grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, and Manhattan, New York.He is the son of the psychiatrist Richard Isay [4] and book editor and author Jane Isay. [5] He graduated from Friends Seminary in 1983 [citation needed] and New York University in 1987.
The following is a list of websites that follow a question-and-answer format. The list contains only websites for which an article exists, dedicated either wholly or at least partly to the websites. For the humor "Q&A site" format first popularized by Forum 2000 and The Conversatron, see Q&A comedy website.
For example, StoryCorps lists the Braver Angels' 1:1 conversations among its One Small Step recommendations. [ 38 ] The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) has sponsored about 200 Brave Angels debates on more than 75 college campuses, on many topics, with support from Braver angels and BridgeUSA. [ 39 ]
During the Flint water crisis, the library played a key role supporting the community, and in the aftermath it partnered with StoryCorps to create oral history interviews of residents' experiences. The Flint Public Library's collections document the City of Flint and Genesee County, local African-American history and literature, and genealogy ...
Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) [1] was an American writer, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1985 for The Good War and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.
StoryCorps, NPR, POV, and National September 11 Memorial & Museum: StoryCorps recollections of the September 11 terrorist attacks on Morning Edition and YouTube: Al Jazeera English: Coverage of "The Arab Awakening" TED.com: Award to the website for "[making] creative thinkers and their ideas available everywhere, anytime"