The document provides information about The HistoryMakers, which contains the largest digital archive of African American oral histories in the world that is housed at the Library of Congress. Some key details include: - It contains over 11,000 hours of searchable content from interviews with over 3,300 African American leaders across various disciplines conducted in over 400 U.S. cities and other locations. - The archive is accessible online through the University of Alabama library website and allows users to search interviews and save video clips for later access on any mobile device. - It provides information on individuals through the Maker Directory and full video interviews through the Digital Archives which requires logging in through the UA library website.

1. In Race, Gender & Media
The University of Alabama

2. • Largest digital archive of African American oral histories in the world
• Housed at The Library of Congress
• Showcases well-known and unsung heroes and sheroes
• The work of a 501c3 nonprofit organization headquartered in
Chicago, Illinois
• Lead by Founder and CEO Julieanna Richardson

3. 11,000
hours of searchable
content
By the numbers
3,300
Interviews of African
American leaders from a
variety of disciplines (arts,
business, education,
politics, sports, fashion &
beauty)
211
nation’s top scientists
379
MediaMakers
(including journalists,
filmmakers, media
executives and
owners)
1999
Year of first interview
413
U.S. cities and towns
where interviews were
conducted (along with
locations in Mexico, the
Carribbean and Norway)

4. Archive is viewable
at your fingertips
accessible through
any mobile device

5. 2 Ways to See
The HistoryMakers
• The Maker Directory
provides basic information about the HistoryMaker AND a
couple of sample video clips (Good for answering the 5 w’s
and the H and seeing what’s available)
• This is what may appear in an initial Google search of the
person
• Available to general public (without logging in)
• The Digital Archives
Fully access to multi-hour oral history interviews,
completely indexed and linked to Other HistoryMakers by
topic, theme, keyword
• This is proprietary available to subscribing institutions
• Requires you to log in through the UA Library website
• Allows you to save clips in MY CLIPS for access later
(THIS IS WHERE WE WILL BE WORKING!!!)

6. USING HISTORYMAKERS

7. Three ways of searching the archive
• By HistoryMaker (Category)
• By Location of the HistoryMaker (and other meta data)
• By Search terms, key words, topics (Advanced searching)

8. NAVIGATING THE COLLECTION
 Settings and Filters
 Search Syntax
 Phrase Searching
 Wildcard Searching
 Boolean Searching
 Topic Search
 My Clips

9. Login through the lib.ua.edu website (You will be asked to “authenticate” using MyBama credentials)
Source: Piedmont Virginia Community College

10. CULLING THE CLIPS
 Here is an example of clips saved after watching multiple clips in a search term “Asian American”

11. PHRASE SEARCHING & WILDCARD SEARCHING
Searching for a Phrase
 Use “ ”
 Searching for voting rights
 Matches sources with both words, either separately
or together
 Searching for “voting rights”
 Matches sources with the two word phrase
Wildcard
 Use *
 Searching for voting
 Matches sources with only this word
 Searching for vot*
 Matches sources containing any word beginning with the
prefix vot
 Vote, votes, voter, voting

12. Source: Brandeis University Library