Oral history is the systematic collection of living people’s testimony about their own experiences. Historians, researchers and genealogists recognize that the everyday memories of everyday people, not just the rich and famous, have historical importance. Oral history places the interviewee in a place and time and asks him or her to relate personal remembrances of that time and place. If we do not collect and preserve those memories, those stories, then one day they will be gone forever.

We are conducting oral history interviews of area veterans, placing the recordings in the archives at Minnesota State University Moorhead, producing web versions of the records, transcribing the recordings and placing those transcriptions on the web. If you would like to take part in an interview, please fill out this on-line questionnaire. A release
form must be printed, completed and signed before we can accept any recordings. Click here for sample questions for interviewing a veteran.

Questions? Comments? Unable to fill out the on-line questionnaire? Email the Heritage Education Commission.