American Oral History Archives on Slavic Immigration. An Overview of Preserving Slavic Immigrants’ Life Stories

Marina Bantiou

doi:10.18778/8331-033-6

American Oral History Archives on Slavic Immigration. An Overview of Preserving Slavic Immigrants’ Life Stories

Marina Bantiou

University of Thessaly, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Early Childhood Education

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1968-4006 (unauthenticated)

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Migrations in the Slavic Cultural Space. From the Middle Ages to the Present Day

Series: Series Ceranea

Pages: 189-197

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/8331-033-6.13

Keywords: migracja, migracja etnosu serbskiego w XVI-XIII wieku, historia Słowian południowych zachodnich wschodnich, asymilacja, emigracja w literaturze

Published: 30 December 2022

Categories: History, Open Access

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This paper presents selected archival oral history collections and projects conducted in the United States based on the testimonies of Slavic immigrants to the US during the 20^th century. It focuses on an overview of important existing archives of oral testimonies in the US. The aim is to create a “mapping” of oral history archives on the above subject and present aspects of Slavic immigration to the US in parallel. The experiences and life stories of first and second generation immigrants in the US are presented in categories per collection, emphasizing their valuable importance for contemporary history and highlighting the importance of “history from below”, which is based on the value of personal experience.

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Bantiou, Marina. 2022. “American Oral History Archives on Slavic Immigration. An Overview of Preserving Slavic Immigrants’ Life Stories”. In Migrations in the Slavic Cultural Space. From the Middle Ages to the Present Day, edited by Zofia A. Brzozowska, Piotr Kręzel, and Izabela Lis-Wielgosz, 10:189-97. Series Ceranea. Poland: Lodz University Press. https://doi.org/10.18778/8331-033-6.13.