Students

Jordan Pollock describes her summer internship with the Oral History Program and reflects on the lessons from oral histories.

While reflecting on her summer internship with the Oral History Program, Arynn Carty discusses how oral history is like opening a cupboard.

Makeda Barr-Brown describes the student interns' contributions to the historical record of the Stanford Libraries and shares their reflections and the lessons learned.

I was able to document and archive monumental parts of Stanford history during the Vietnam War Era and the COVID-19 pandemic without ever having been on campus.

Perhaps the greatest discovery made during the internship was that of John J. Johnson’s unpublished manuscript titled Foreign Images of the U.S.: 1860-1992: A Cartoon History.

A silver lining of the pandemic was the ability to engage a whole cohort of interns, spread across the country, in the effort of documenting the many aspects of Stanford history.

I also now know the significance of oral history. I think most of the time we take stories for granted until they’re no longer available.