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MSUM COVID-19 Community History Project

Resources on Writing a Memoir, Diary, or Journal

Diaries, On-line Diaries, and the Future Loss to Archives; or Blogs and the Blogging Bloggers Who Blog Them
Written by Catherine O'Sullivan in The American Archivist, Volume 68, Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2005.
Writing a Personal History, Journal Ideas, and Why It's Important
2019 Blog post by Rachel Trotter.

Resources on Self-interviews

How to Interview Yourself for a Personal History
Blog post from 2015 written by Tom Taylor.
Covid-19: First Person Histories
Examples of first person histories about COVID-19

Oral History Resources

Oral History Association
Oral History in the Archives: Its Documentary Role in the Twenty-first Century
Written by Ellen Swain in The American Archivist, Volume 66, Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2003.
Principles and Best Practices for Oral History

Additional resources