The collections and series gathered here document spoken experience — oral histories, ethnographic field recordings, and interviews — drawn from across Wesleyan's digital collections. Materials range from structured life-history narratives to informal conversations captured in the field, representing diverse voices, disciplines, and time periods. Browse by collection to explore individual projects, or search across them to find connections among subjects, narrators, and communities.

Portland Brownstone Quarries oral history collection, Fall 2009

During the 2009 fall semester students in English 274 conducted interviews with nine people who were connected with the Portland Brownstone Quarries. They interviewed an archaeologist who had studied the quarries, and a number of portland residents who had worked, lived near, or interacted with the quarries as residents of the town. This digital collection includes audio files, transcriptions and photographs.

Wesleyan graduate studies in Music - oral histories of international graduate students

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Wesleyan University emeritus faculty oral histories, 2012

This collection consists of oral history interviews with members of the Wesleyan University community, including faculty emeriti, administration officials, and others. They are sponsored by the Wesleyan University Wasch Center for Retired Faculty and are added to on an ongoing basis.