The Unedited StoryCorps Interview: Allegra Westbrooks & Shara Traynham

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The Unedited StoryCorps Interview: Allegra Westbrooks & Shara Traynham

Did you know that the broadcast pieces you hear on NPR and our podcast are excerpts of longer conversations stored in the StoryCorps Archive? Participants are invited to visit one of our recording locations with a friend or family member to record a 40-minute interview with the help of a trained facilitator. Over the past […]

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In Memoriam: Lucille Horn

We learned this week of the passing of Lucille Horn, who was one of Dr. Martin Couney’s incubator babies in the 1920s. As part of a sideshow on Coney Island, Lucille helped pave the way for modern neonatal intensive care. We are remembering her contributions today, and we’re very grateful she was able to share […]

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In Memoriam: Cherie Johnson

We at StoryCorps are broken-hearted to learn of the death of our dear friend Cherie Johnson. Cherie was a beloved StoryCorps participant who, along with her cousin James Ransom, introduced us all to the one-of-a-kind Miss Lizzie Devine. Will will miss you, Cherie. Rest in peace. — Dave […]

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Welcome StoryCorpsU to Your Classroom

StoryCorpsU is our year-long youth development program, featuring interviewing techniques—combined with audio stories and animated shorts—to support students in the development of identity and in drawing connections between their unique strengths and the college application process.

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2016 StoryCorps Gala

StoryCorps participants, supporters, and staff celebrated remarkable stories and storytellers at our annual gala in New York City. The evening, themed “Who We Are: A Celebration of American Stories,” explored our shared and positive humanity through animated shorts and personal stories.

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The Great Thanksgiving Listen 2016: Keywording 101

Keywords are descriptive tags that will help future generations of friends and loved ones, historians, and researchers find your interview. Here are tips to help make your keywording great.

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StoryCorps Wins Emmy Award for "Traffic Stop"

This month we won our first Emmy Award for the animated story of Alex Landau, an African American man adopted by white parents who was severely beaten by Denver police after what he believed was going to be little more than a routine traffic stop.

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#TheGreatListen2016

In 2015, more than 100,000 individuals from all 50 states took part in The Great Thanksgiving Listen, our national education project that empowers high school students to record conversations with a grandparent or another elder. Help us create a national listening movement for #TheGreatListen2016.

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The Unedited StoryCorps Interview: Julie Stolzberg and Abigail Pogrebin

In this full-length StoryCorps Legacy interview, Julie Stolzberg shares childhood memories, family stories, and recollections about the birth of her two children with her friend Abigail Pogrebin just weeks before Julie passed away from cancer.

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Happy 100th Birthday, National Park Service

On August 25, 1916, the National Park Service was born. Today the NPS maintains 412 areas and over 84 million acres, and over the past 15 months, in partnership with the Midwest Region Centennial Committee, StoryCorps has visited many of these sites to document the place-based stories of more than 300 staff and visitors.