The site, launched in 2002, is a collaboration between the Chicago Historical Society (CHS), the repository for Terkel’s recordings and a leader in developing online exhibitions, and the National Gallery of the Spoken Word, an initiative of Michigan State University’s MATRIX project, which is developing an online digital library of twentieth-century American spoken word collections ( ). With the launching of Studs Terkel: Conversations with America, that situation has changed. Yet until recently, except in his original radio broadcasts at Chicago’s WFMT, Terkel’s interviews have never been accessible. No individual has popularized oral history more than Studs Terkel, author of such best-selling books as Hard Times (1970), Working (1974), and “The Good War” (1984). Chicago Historical Society in conjunction with the National Gallery of the Spoken Word.
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