Established by award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson, the Baldwin-Emerson Elders Project captures and celebrates the untold stories of 200+ elders—activists, storytellers, and community builders—who have witnessed and shaped monumental change in American public life.
In partnership with the Obama Foundation, Incite/CCOHR is conducting the official Obama Presidency Oral History Project, a presidential oral history unprecedented in size, scope and approach. Through interviews with over 400 people – from cabinet members and executive branch policymakers, to key public figures outside of the White House, to ‘ordinary citizens’ impacted by the presidency and its policies – the project promises to weave the memories of administration officials about critical decisions with the stories and experiences of people touched by those decisions, and thus to capture the essence of our country’s engagement with the Obama Presidency.
This project combines ethnographic, oral history, and survey methods to create a contemporaneous record of New York City’s experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through online interviews and written testimonials, the project will illuminate New Yorkers’ information-seeking behavior, interactions with the healthcare system, stress responses, shifting modes of sociality, and the reception and compliance with government intervention measures.
Columbia Center for Oral History Research
Incite Institute at Columbia University
61 Claremont Avenue #1300
New York, NY 10027
