Oral History Collections
Carefully researched interviews with labor leaders, rank-and-file workers, and political activists are an important part of the Tamiment collections. Paul Buhle's Oral History of the American Left and Debra Bernhard's New Yorkers at Work are the core oral history collections. The collections also include audiotapes of speeches, concerts, conferences, memorial meetings, union meetings and other public and private events, as well as commercial recordings. Transcripts or summaries are available for many oral history interviews. Donor restrictions govern the use of some interviews.
Unions wishing to develop their own oral history projects can contact Tamiment for assistance. Please contact Mike Nash (212-998-2428; michael.nash@nyu.edu) for more information about the oral history collections.
Following is an alphabetical list of the 73 oral history collections currently in the Tamiment Library's holdings. An asterisk indicates that a collection has been cataloged in BobCat. Conduct a Phrase Search on the Call Number ("Oral Histories 12," e.g.) or Author/Creator ("Stewardesses for Women's Rights," e.g.) for full details.
While the majority of these collections are not fully processed, there are finding aids in paper format available in the Tamiment Library for many of them. Three collections, New Yorkers at Work, Oral History of the American Left (Series 1), and the Frederic Ewen Audiotape and Videotape collection have been fully processed; follow the links below to consult electronic finding aids for those collections.
Oral History Collections
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, District Council 37 Audio (OH-64)
American Federation of Teachers (OH-08)*
Asian Garment Workers in NYC (OH-18)
Bauman, Mordecai Audiocassettes (OH-55)
Bellush, Bernard and Jewel Collection - District Council 37 AFSCME (OH-23)
Bernhardt, Debra (OH-43)
Boni, Albert Interview (OH-62)
Bookchin, Murray (OH-56)
Breitman, George - Tapes (OH-38)
Building Trades (OH-45)
Burton Hall Union Democracy Oral History Project (OH-34)
Camp Midvale (OH-15)*
Civil Service Technical Guild, Local 375 AFSCME (OH-22)
Communications Workers of America (OH-26)
Communist Party USA Oral History Project (OH-65)
Democratic Socialists of America Audiocassettes (OH-58)
District 65 United Auto Workers (OH-19)*
Drucker, Peter - Interviews (OH-37)
Ewen, Frederic (OH-52)*
Fleischman, Harry - History of American Socialism and Other Topics (OH-25)*
Fleischman, Henry - History of American Socialism and Other Topics - Addendum (2005) (OH-53)
Foner, Phil - History of the American Labor Movement (OH-46)
Gender Relations in the Building Trades [closed/permission] (OH-20)
Gerson, Simon W. (OH-54)
Glazer, Joe - Labor Songs (OH-41)
Harrington, Michael (DSA) Tapes (OH-48)
HERE Local 6 (OH-69)
Hispanic Apparel Union Officers (OH-04)*
Institute for Senior Action (IFSA) (OH-71)
Isserman, Maurice - Which Side Were You On? The American Communist Party During the Second World War: Interview Transcripts and Summaries (OH-51)
Isserman, Maurice Interviews (OH-36)*
IUOE/IUE/UE (OH-72)
Jackson, James E. Lecture Audiotapes (OH-57)
Jewish Labor Committee (OH-27)
Katz, Daniel - International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (OH-49)
Kelley, Robin Kelley - Hammer and Hoe (OH-40)
Lower East Side Oral History Project (OH-33)*
Marine Workers Historical Collection (OH-30)
Mary & Cedrick Belfrage Collection (OH-70)
Marzani, Carl Marzani - Eurocommunism Tapes (OH-42)
Miscellaneous Historic Sound (OH-35)
National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET) Local 15 (OH-32)
National Organization for Women: NYC Chapter (OH-44)
New York City Central Labor Council AFL-CIO (OH-07)*
New York City Central Labor Council Meeting (OH-10)
New York City Immigrant Labor History Project (OH-14)
New York City Taxi Driver's Union (OH-28)
New York City Waterfront (OH-60)
New York State AFL-CIO (OH-17)
New Yorkers at Work (OH-01)*
Newspaper Guild of New York (OH-67)
Oral History of the American Left - Series 1 (OH-02.1)*
Oral History of the American Left - Series 2 (OH-02.2)*
Oral History of the American Left - Series 3 (OH-02.3)*
Oral History of the American Left - Series 4 (OH-02.4)*
Oral History of the American Left - Series 5 (OH-02.5)*
Oral History of the American Left - Series 6 (OH-02.6)*
Oral History of the American Left - Series 7 (OH-02.7)*
Oral History of the American Left (OH-02)*
Oral History of the American Left (OH-02.4-9)*
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives (OH-73)
Out in the Union: Gays and Lesbians in the Labor Movement, Miriam Frank - RESTRICTED (OH-39)
Postal Workers Union, New York Metro Area (OH-03)
Produced Audiotapes and Records (OH-24)
Professional Staff Congress (OH-61)
Public Events (OH-05)
Pullman Porters (OH-21)*
Social Service Employees Union (SSEU) Local 371 (OH-63)
Songs of Social Justice (OH-16)
Southern Tenant Farmers Union (OH-29)*
Squatters Collective Project (OH-68)
Stewardesses for Women's Rights (OH-12)*
Tamiment Playhouse Alumni (OH-31)
Taxi Rank and File Coalition (OH-13)*
Transport Workers Union (OH-11)*
TWU Local 100 / Goldstein Interviews (OH-47)
United Federation of Teachers (OH-09)*
War Resisters League (OH-50)
WHAM! (OH-66)
Women Hospital Workers (OH-06)*
Women Writing Women's Lives (OH-59)
Updated 02/25/09
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