Books in the Voice of Witness series

A guide to give newcomers the confidence to begin their own oral history projects.

They are a mass migration of thousands of young people from Central America, yet each one travels alone: solito, solita.

They are a mass migration of thousands of young people from Central America, yet each one travels alone: solito, solita.

How We Go Home shares contemporary Indigenous stories in the long and ongoing fight to protect Native land and life.

In their own words, the narrators of Patriot Acts recount their lives before the 9/11 attacks and their experiences of the backlash that have deeply altered their lives and communities.

In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicago's iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high rises. These stories of community, displacement, and poverty in the wake of gentrification give voice to those who have long been ignored, but whose hopes and struggles exist firmly in the heart of our national identity.

In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicago's iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high rises. These stories of community, displacement, and poverty in the wake of gentrification give voice to those who have long been ignored, but whose hopes and struggles exist firmly in the heart of our national identity.

Puerto Rican voices share their stories of surviving Hurricane Maria and its aftermath.

Personal narratives from farmworkers, sex workers, the undocumented, the incarcerated, and more-covering the first year COVID swept across the United States.

How We Go Home shares contemporary Indigenous stories in the long and ongoing fight to protect Native land and life.