HistoryMakers is the nation’s largest African-American video Oral History collection. Barack Obama, poets Nikki Giovanni and Sonia Sanchez, Angela Davis, and over 200 scientists are among the 2,691 HistoryMakers interviewed.  Subjects discussed include: Black American culture; Black towns and land ownership; integration and public life; science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM); makings of modern music; public health and medical workers; poetry; Black theological traditions and religious life; feminism; migration and the Black diaspora; African survivals and the Gullah people; Black radical tradition; Black entrepreneurs; funeral rites; Black film and filmmakers; LGBTQ stories.

Lehman College has secured a Trial archive account for this resource during 2020.The Webinar includes a demonstration and discussion of ways to incorporate these Oral Histories into your courses, research, and a myriad of projects and presentations.