Resources to Help You Collect Oral Histories

Western Reserve Public Media encourages you to explore the station’s resources related to the national premiere of The War.

• Download and read the viewer’s guide for the seven-part series. [download guide]

• View a videotape of one of Western Reserve Public Media’s community workshops that gave instruction on how to create a videotaped oral history. The presenters were Ken Bindas, professor of history at Kent State University Trumbull Campus, and Molly Merryman, a documentary filmmaker and associate professor of justice studies at Kent State Trumbull. [view workshop]

• Visit Western Reserve Public Media’s Web site for “You Be the Producer,” a multimedia educational project that tells how to create a story digitally. [visit Web site]

• Download a copy the “You Be the Producer,” a teacher guide that offers step-by-step guidelines for creating a video production. [download teacher guide]

• Watch Act of Duty, a Western Reserve Public Media documentary that features real-life stories of more than two dozen local veterans from World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars. [watch online]