Introduction Michael Gordon and Lu Ann Jones | Oral History | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Introduction Michael Gordon and Lu Ann Jones | Oral History | The Journal of American History, 89.2 | The History Cooperative

Oral History

Introduction
Michael Gordon and Lu Ann Jones

Discussion elsewhere in this issue reveals that historians continue to sift through the events surrounding last September's attacks for meaning and significance. Our first essay in this year's oral history section contributes to that effort by describing how people who were affected by the attacks continue their efforts to cope with and comprehend their experiences. Soon after September 11, Columbia University's Oral History Research Office, in collaboration with the university's Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, launched the September 11, 2001, Oral History Narrative and Memory Project. So far, nearly four hundred people have been interviewed. In her essay here, Mary Marshall Clark, the director of the Oral History Research Office, analyzes themes in those interviews and suggests how follow-up interviews with the same informants over the next two years should reveal much about the lingering effects of September 11 on their lives and consciousness. 1

Our second essay, by J. Todd Moye, explores new efforts by the National Park Service to collect remembrances of African American pilots who trained at the segregated Moton Field facility in Tuskegee, Alabama, during World War II. The director of the Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project, Moye says the project's 1,500 interviews with pilots and other flight personnel will focus on how blacks at Tuskegee sought to break segregation in the South and the U.S. military at the same time as they were compiling distinguished military service records. Like the September 11 interviews, the Tuskegee Airmen project will provide insights on how intervening experiences shape memories of defining events in people's lives. More immediately, they also will help schoolchildren and other visitors to the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site (to open in 2005) learn more about an important chapter in the nation's history. . . .

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