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Give the Conversation of a Lifetime

Give the Conversation of a Lifetime

How can a last-minute gift last a lifetime? When it’s the gift of a StoryCorps conversation, recorded and uploaded via the free StoryCorps App. Here’s your one-stop gift guide for an experience you, your loved one, and future generations will cherish.

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Recipes for Success

Recipes for Success

From ironing out travel plans to deciding what side dish to bring, Thanksgiving can be stressful. However, your interview for The Great Thanksgiving Listen doesn’t have to be. We’ve put together a step-by-step guide for the big day so that you can have a relaxing, enjoyable, and fulfilling experience with your interview partner.

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Creative Ways to Use the StoryCorps App

Creative Ways to Use the StoryCorps App

Looking to share and preserve a story that stretches the limits of what a StoryCorps interview might allow? From recipe recordings to special events to civic awareness, we've compiled a list of ways for you to get inspired — and get started capturing your story — with the StoryCorps App.

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Great Conversations Start with Great Questions

Great Conversations Start with Great Questions

After 15 years of listening, we know what makes a great conversation: to start by asking great questions. Here are some of our suggestions for getting your StoryCorps interview going.

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Veterans Day #GoogleDoodle

Veterans Day #GoogleDoodle

We’ve partnered with Google and YouTube to honor the voices of our nation’s veterans. Discover five #VeteransVoices and record your own.

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Keywording 101

Keywording 101

Keywords are descriptive tags that will help future generations of friends and loved ones, historians, and researchers find your interview. Here are tips to help make your keywording great.

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On the Road Again: Announcing The 2019 Mobile Tour

On the Road Again: Announcing The 2019 Mobile Tour

In 2019, the StoryCorps Mobile Tour will make its travel almost 5,000 miles across the United States, making its way to ten cities along the way.

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Celebrating 15 Years of Listening at the StoryCorps Gala

Celebrating 15 Years of Listening at the StoryCorps Gala

On StoryCorps' fifteenth anniversary, our board, leadership, and supporters gathered at Capitale in New York City to celebrate a decade and a half recording, honoring, and sharing the voices of humanity, and to look together towards StoryCorps' future.

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Sign Up to Record for One Small Step

Sign Up to Record for One Small Step

Our new initiative aims to remind us that we have more in common than divides us, and that treating those with whom we disagree with decency and respect is essential to a functioning democracy.

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SNAP Matters: Stories Recorded with Support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

SNAP Matters: Stories Recorded with Support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Presenting a selection of coversations we recorded as part of a project focused on changing the the narrative about the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the program formerly known as food stamps.

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