StoryCorps turning Thanksgiving into an oral history holiday
As students head back to school, here comes a big homework assignment: StoryCorps wants tens of thousands of teenagers across America to interview a grandparent or elder this Thanksgiving and upload their recordings to the Library of Congress.
The nonprofit oral history organization is asking high school history teachers to have their students record the interviews with StoryCorps’ free smartphone application. Recordings sent to the library will become part of a publicly accessible archive at the American Folklife Center.
“The Great Thanksgiving Listen” is an assignment that will last for generations,” StoryCorps founder Dave Isay said.