Hamilton cast performance at the 2016 Tonys. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=639vfDnhOVw” Continue reading Hamilton Cast 2016 Tony Performance
Below you will find links to all episodes of “America, the Story of Us”, a History Channel program which chronicles the history of the United States. The series is not without its imperfections (it often strives for entertainment over history), but you may find clips useful. You can find a NY Times review of the series here. Episode One: “Rebels” Episode Two: “Revolution” Episode Three: “Westward” … Continue reading “America, the Story of US”
From YouTube and The Graduate Center CUNY’s Composition Community (CompComm): “Eugenia Wiltshire (nee Dorothy Robinson) remembers attending City College 1966-70 as one of the first SEEK students. Produced, directed and edited by Sean Molloy.” If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7rtnY79oAc” Continue reading Oral Histories of Teaching at CUNY: Eugenia Wiltshire, An Oral History of the CCNY 1960s SEEK Program
From YouTube and The Graduate Center CUNY’s Composition Community (CompComm): “In this oral history, Donald McQuade remembers the Rutgers 1960s PhD Program, teaching writing at Queens College in the early days of Open Admissions, the CUNY Association of Writing Supervisors, and the founding of the WPA. Produced and edited by Sean Molloy.” If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste … Continue reading Oral Histories of Teaching at CUNY: Donald McQuade’s Oral History of Teaching at CUNY in the 1970s
From YouTube and The Graduate Center CUNY’s Composition Community (CompComm): “SEEK founder Allen Ballard and 1970 City College graduates Francee Covington and Marvina White remember SEEK’s English classes and teachers. (Produced, directed and edited by Sean Molloy).” If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fwUBQc14ZI” Continue reading Oral Histories of Teaching at CUNY: 1960’s SEEK Program at City College
This series of 5 short video podcasts from the Minnesota Historical Society provides a rationale and some guidelines for conducting oral histories. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1F2C83CBF809534B” Continue reading How To Do Oral History
From YouTube and The LBJ Library: “In 2013, work began on the Vietnam War Commemoration Oral History Project, an ambitious effort to collect video-recorded oral history interviews of Vietnam War veterans. The goal of the project, organized by the U.S. Department of Defense and its 50th Commemoration program, is to capture interviews with veterans of all ranks and military services to reflect the full breadth … Continue reading The Vietnam War Commemoration Oral History Project: Captain Donna Rowe, USA (Army Nurse Corps)
From YouTube via Midwest National Parks and StoryCorps: The only remaining western town established by African Americans during the Reconstruction Period following the Civil War, the town of Nicodemus is symbolic of the pioneer spirit of African Americans who dared to leave the only region they had been familiar with to seek personal freedom and the opportunity to develop their talents and capabilities. In partnership … Continue reading StoryCorps: Nicodemus National Historic Site
University of Iowa rhetoric professor Vershawn Young performs a reading of August Wilson’s work at the Iowa Public Library. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPPRdYUeOaM” Continue reading Vershawn Ashanti Young Reads August Wilson
Associated Press coverage of the passing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. To put this video in VOCAT. Use the following link (without quotations). “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J6xO4gtCJM&list=PLh_tr7knrAS22RMekeAZIa59-_voS3wQH&index=18” Continue reading Civil Rights Act Passed – 1964
