1. American Dreams: Lost and Found
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1981
   Interviews with 100 Americans who relate their dreams, disappointments, aspirations and experiences.
2. Bequests
   Leaving a social justice legacy
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2017
   Many of us have made working for social justice a lifetime commitment. If you are thinking about leaving a legacy for social justice that will live on, you might want to consider leaving a bequest to Connexions in your will.
3. The Canadian Oral History Reader
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2015
   A collection of work in oral history by Canadian scholars.
4. The Case for Grassroots Archives
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
5. Connexions
   Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1982
   
6. Connexions Archive seeks a new home
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2009
   The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
7. Connexions Library: History Focus Page
   Resource Type: Website
   Published: 2012
   Selected articles, books, documents and other resources on historical topics.
8. Connexions Library: Oral History Focus Page
   Resource Type: Website
   Published: 2012
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on oral history.
9. Connexions Library: Radical and Left History Focus Page
   Resource Type: Website
   Published: 2012
   
10. Eating Fire
    Family Life, on the Queer Side
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    An inside look at a rainbow of relationships, sexual and otherwise, that gay, lesbian, and transgendered people create to animate their lives: lovers, partners, parents/kids, quick tricks, torrid affairs, sweethearts, crushes, exes, friends, bottoms and tops, threesomes, butches and fems, bears, cubs and johns. Based on hundreds of intimate conversations across Canada, Eating Fire explores the deepest currents of life: sex, love, loneliness, abuse, power and consent, giving birth, death, being a wo/man, pleasure, fear, joy - risks and rewards of creating family without boundaries.
11. Gender and Sexuality
    Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    Stories, accounts and histories of the movements to overcome racism, sexism and poverty.
12. A Guide to the Photographic Identification of Individual Whales Based on Natural & Acquired Markings
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    
13. A History of News
    From the Drum to the Satellite
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    
14. Howard Huggett in conversation with Ulli Diemer
    Interview May 24, 1989
    Resource Type: Audio
    Published: 1989
    An interview with Canadian socialist Howard Huggett. An audio recording of this interview is in the Connexions Library & Archive.
15. Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
    Resource Type: Database
    Published: 2005
    The Hurricane Digital Memory Bank uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the stories and digital record of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The Hurricane Digital Memory Bank contributes to the ongoing effort by historians and archivists to preserve the record of these storms by collecting first-hand accounts, on-scene images, blog postings, and podcasts. We hope to foster some positive legacies by allowing the people affected by these storms to tell their stories in their own words, which as part of the historical record will remain accessible to a wide audience for generations to come.
16. Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
    Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called “the battle of memory”. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles, and alternative visions to what George Orwell called “the memory hole.” People’s history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. Their role is particularly important as official archives are forced to restrict acquisitions, limit access and discard materials as funding is slashed.
17. The Memory Code: how oral cultures memorise so much information
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Long before the ancient Celts, Aboriginal Australians were recording vast scores of knowledge to memory and passing it to successive generations. Aboriginal people demonstrate that their oral traditions are not only highly detailed and complex, but they can survive -- accurately -- for thousands, even tens of thousands, of years.
    
18. Museum of the World and Image
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Challenges the "official narrative" that re-writes the Civil War as a struggle of "national security" against an "internal communist threat," manifested in the form of unions, student groups, human rights and refugee organizations, progressive Christian base communities, and the peasant insurgency of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN).
19. No Bankers in Heaven
    Remembering the CCF
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    An oral history of men and women who devoted themselves to building the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.
20. The Ojibwa of Southern Ontario
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    A history of the Ojibwa in Southern Ontario.
21. Oral history
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The recording, preservation and interpretation of historical information, based on the personal experiences and recollections of the speaker.
22. Oral tradition
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Cultural material and tradition transmitted orally from one generation to another.
23. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 2, 2014
    Climate Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2014
    This issue of Other Voices looks at why so many people deny or ignore the very real and very near threat of climate change. We also look into the ways on how NGOs tame and undermine grassroots movements. Other Voices also shares an article detailing how a $182 billion bail-out of tax-payer money was not enough for one bank. Finally, in this issue, we look into the horrors of American slavery and how it shaped the United States into the economic power it is today.
24. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2015
    SYRIZA
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    This week we're featuring the 40-point program which SYRIZA, the Greek coalition of the radical left, put forward to win the Greek election. Oliver Tickell writes about the mass media's latest campaign of pro-war propaganda, this time revolving around supposed "Russian aggression" in Ukraine, while Paul Edwards looks at another form of war propaganda, Clint Eastwood's 'American Sniper'. The Topic of the Week is Water Rights. Related items include the film "Blue Gold: World Water Wars," the featured website International Rivers, and articles on water-related struggles, past and present, including articles on the Walkerton water disaster and the Cochabamba water war.
25. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2015
    Canadian federal election, mining and the environment
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    Featuring the Canadian federal election, mining and the environment, failure of Syriza in Greece, refugees, veterans of India's struggle for independence.
26. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter June 26, 2017
    Public Safety
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    The June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter is about public safety.
27. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017
    Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.
28. Out Our Way
    Gay & Lesbian Life in Rural Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    Explores the richly varied life experience of gay and lesbian Canadians living in small towns and rural areas across the country. Travelling 27,000 km and recording more than 300 conversations, the author distills stories of people aged fifteen to eighty-one, including First Nations/Two-Spirited, people living with HIV/AIDS, individuals, couples, communes, and a range of chosen families. Riordon includes his own experience and his partner's in rural eastern Ontario.
29. The Power of Story, the Evidence of Experience
    Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Review of a book of oral histories of migrant farmworkers.
30. Rank and File
    Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers.
31. Setting the Table
    An Anthology of Community Stories
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    Reminiscences about food.
32. Sisters in the Resistance
    The Women's War to Free France
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    Weitz documented accounts of 70 women involved in the Resistance.
33. The Slave Narratives
    American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography
    Resource Type: Website
    Interviews with former slaves. Nearly all of the information presented here came from the WPA collection at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, in addition to the 232 boxes of unprocessed material and county histories.
34. Sources welcomes Michael Riordon
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Sources welcomes a new member: Michael Riordon. Canadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio and stage.
35. Stories from the Ice Storm
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Personal stories of the ice storm which hit eastern North America in 1998.
36. The Studs Terkel Radio Archive
    Resource Type: Website
    Over the course of his 45 years on WFMT radio, Studs Terkel discussed every aspect of 20th-century life with movers, shakers, artists, celebrities, and working folks. From civil rights to labor to jazz, his work spanned an impressive array of topics and figures. These
    enchanting, historically-significant interviews are now being made available online.
37. The Studs Terkel Radio Archive
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    Over the course of his 45 years on WFMT radio, Studs Terkel discussed every aspect of 20th-century life with movers, shakers, artists, celebrities, and working folks.
    From civil rights to labour to jazz, his work spanned an impressive array of topics and figures. These enchanting, historically-significant interviews - which have been largely inaccessible to the public are now being made available online.
38. The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
    Resource Type: Website
    The Tamiment Library contains some of the most important collections in the United States relating to labor and social history [labor collections], the history of the Left, the place of the worker in American society, the evolution of labor law, women's history, immigrant history, and much more.
    
39. Ten Lost Years 1929 - 1939
    Memories of Canadians Who Survived the Depression
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    An oral history of the Great Depression in Canada.
40. Ten Lost Years discovery of superb social history
    Book Review of Ten Lost Years by Barry Broadfoot
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1974
    Barry Broadfoot's book consists almost entirely of excerpts from interviews he conducted with people who remember the Depression. The people speak for themselves: Broadfoot has edited them and organised them under various headings, added brief explanatory paragraphs, and included a number of pictures. The approach is a success, without question. Ten Lost Years is a superb work, presenting a vivid and unforgettable picture of that unbelievable decade.
41. Terkel, Studs
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. (1912-2008).
42. An Unauthorized Biography of the World
    Oral History on the Front Lines
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordon's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
43. Wolfe Erlichman in conversation with Ulli Diemer
    October 26, 2016
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    An interview with Wolfe Erlichman, who worked as a community worker/organizer in Trefann Court in Toronto in the late 1960s.
44. Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here
    Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    Karima Bennoune interviews 300 people from 30 countries to report on a largely invisible group of people: Muslim opponents of fundamentalism. They remain largely invisible, lost amid the heated coverage of Islamist terror attacks on one side and abuses perpetrated against suspected terrorists on the other. A veteran of twenty years of human rights research and activism, Karima Bennoune draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews to illuminate the inspiring stories of those who represent one of the best hopes for ending fundamentalist oppression worldwide.
45. Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism, by Karima Bennoune (Book Review)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Karima Bennoune, a US-based law scholar raised in Algeria, has written an account of the stories of numerous people whose lives have been scarred by Islamic fundamentalism and who decided, using a variety of means, to put up a fight.

Experts on Oral History in the Sources Directory

1. Ulli Diemer
2. ibiblio.org
3. National Film and Sound Archive
4. Michael Riordon