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**Community History Web Sites (most based on oral history)**

Bland County History Archives, Rocky Gap (Virginia) High School

http://bland.k12.va.us/bland/rocky/gap.html

Developed by students in the American Communities seminar at Duke University.

Brainerd, Kansas: Time, Place, and Memory on the Prairie Plains

http://www.rootinaround.com/brainerd

High school oral history project.

HistoryLink: People’s Histories

http://www.historylink.org/

A history of the community and a sense of place through written material and interviews; developed as a graduate student project.

Indivisible: Stories of American Community

http://www.indivisible.org/

An exploration of twelve communities in the U.S. "where people are coming together to make their small piece of the world a better place to live," by accomplished photographers, radio producers, and photographers; developed by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

Kellytown Oral History

http://monticello.avenue.org/Community/
Neighborhoods/Kellytown/

A history of Kellytown, an African American neighborhood in Charlottesville, Virginia, with roots in the nineteenth century.

Miami Valley Cultural Heritage Project

http://georgetown.edu/crossroads/
innovistas/exhibits.html

Click on "Miami Valley Cultural Heritage Project," while you are at it, check out the entire Crossroads site for innovations in web based cultural studies.

Stonington (CT) Fishing Oral History Project

http://www.mysticseaport.org/library/
soundarchives/sfohp/sfohp.brochure.html

The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia

The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow/vshadow.html

A well regarded virtual archives of material relating to the Civil War in two communities, one in Virginia and one in Pennsylvania.

Virtual Greenbelt

http://otal.umd.edu/~vg

A study of Greenbelt, Maryland, a 1930s government sponsored "new town" in suburban Washington, D.C., developed by students in American Studies courses at the University of Maryland.

Community Defined By Participation In A Shared Historical Event:

Blackout History Project

http://blackout.gmu.edu/

Experimental site developed by the Center for New Media at George Mason University; combines oral histories with the Internet as research tools for reconstructing two memorable power failures that struck New York City and the surrounding area, the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 and the New York Blackout of 1977.

Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive

http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda/index.html

Memories of the movement, archives at the University of Southern Mississippi.

The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory

http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/index.html

A virtual exhibit developed by the Chicago Historical Society to commemorate the 125^th anniversary of a formative event in the city's history.

Vietnam: Stories since the War

http://www.pbs.org/pov/stories/vietnam/about.html

Various personal documents related to the Vietnam War; developed in conjunction with the PBS "Point of View" series.

The Whole World Was Watching

http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968

Site developed by South Kingston (Rhode Island) High School sophomores, based on their interviews with Rhode Islanders about their experiences and memories of 1968 in particular and the 1960s in general.