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Projects of Interest
Witnesses to Nuremberg
Photo: The
defendants at the International Military Tribunal
Trial, from the Thomas J. Dodd papers, Archives
& Special Collections, University of Connecticut
Libraries
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Individuals who participated
in the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, 1945 -1949,
discuss their experience and reflect on the
meaning of Nuremberg justice. Those interviewed
include attorneys, interrogators, interpreters,
prison guards, the architect who renovated
the courtroom, and journalists. Eleven of
these interviews were published in edited
form in Witnesses to Nuremberg: American Participants
at the War Crimes Trials (Twayne Oral History
Series). Project Directors: Bruce M. Stave
and Michele Palmer.
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Voices of World War II
A student generated project which
features oral history interviews with members
of the WWII generation, veterans, women who
served in the armed forces and on the homefront.
Most were children during the war, Holocaust
Survivors, etc. See link. http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~wwwcoh/
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The Peoples of Connecticut.
Members of the state's major European ethnic
groups--in particular the Irish, Italians, Jews
and Poles- share their experiences of ethnicity
in the context of American social, political,
economic and cultural life, as part of the Peoples
of Connecticut Ethnic Heritage Project, William
V. D'Antonio, General Director. Oral History
Project Director: Bruce M. Stave. (Excerpts
from some of these interviews are included in
Bruce M. Stave and John Sutherland, From
the Old Country: An Oral History of European
Migration to America (Twayne Oral History
Series, 1994, Paperback, University Press of
New England, 1999).
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Connecticut Workers and a Half Century of Technological
Change, 1930-1980.
Approximately one hundred and fifty workers
of all ages talk about the impact of technological
change on their relationship to the workplace,
their union, and their employer, and about job
satisfaction, productivity, and occupational
mobility. Available for distribution on microfiche
from Chadwyck-Healey
Inc. Project Directors: Robert Asher and
Bruce M. Stave. |
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The Political Activities of Fully Enfranchised
Connecticut Women.
These interviews with women who were political
activists in the period after suffrage were
the basis for a series of public radio broadcasts
and an article in the 1983 Oral History
Review. This project was undertaken in conjunction
with the University of Connecticut Women's Studies Program,
Irene Q. Brown, Director. Project Historians:
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Holocaust Survivors in the Connecticut Region.
A Study of Holocaust survivors, undertaken in
cooperation with the Center for Judaic Studies
and Contemporary Jewish Life at the University
of Connecticut, Arnold M. Dashefsky, Director,
which adds to the increasingly extensive documentation
of this 20th-century tragedy. Project Director:
Dana Kline. |
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Women's Words/Women's Quilts.
Ten Connecticut women discuss the role of quilting
in their lives and the connections they have
made, through quilting, to others and themselves.
Project Director: Michele Palmer.
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Originated by or in Conjunction with the Oral History Office
Asher, Robert. Connecticut Workers and Technological
Change, 1983.
Kline, Dana L. "The
Holocaust: Survivors Remember", 1983.
Palmer, Michele,
ed. Catalogue of Interviews: Connecticut
Workers and a Half a Century of Technological
Change, 1930-1980, Oral History Project,
1983.
Stave, Bruce M. and
Michele Palmer, with Leslie Frank. Witnesses
to Nuremberg: American Participants at the War
Crimes Trials. (Twayne Oral History Series,
1998)
Stave, Bruce M. and
Michele Palmer. Mills and Meadows: A Pictorial
History of Northeast Connecticut, 1991.
Stave, Bruce M. and
John F. Sutherland, with Aldo Salerno. From
the Old Country: An Oral History of European
Migration to America. (Twayne Oral History
Series, 1994; Paperback, University Press of
New England, 1999).
Stave, Bruce M. and
John F. Sutherland. Talking About Connecticut:
Oral History in the Nutmeg State, 1985,
rev. 1990. (Sponsored by the Connecticut Humanities
Council)
Stave, Bruce M. with Laura Burmeister, Michael Neagle, Leslie Horner Papandrea, and Sondra Astor Stave. Red Brick in the Land of Steady Habits: Creating the University of Connecticut, 1881-2006 (University Press of New England, 2006) . |
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Further Documentation of our Projects at the Archives
& Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research
Center
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