This Holiday Season, Find Connection With The Great Thanksgiving Listen

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This Holiday Season, Find Connection With The Great Thanksgiving Listen

The holidays are arriving at a time when many across the country are unable to celebrate in the same ways as before. Be a part of this year’s national movement to create a history of the United States by recording your own stories virtually using StoryCorps Connect with an elder, mentor, friend, or someone you admire. It's #TheGreatListen...

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The Great Thanksgiving Listen Aims to Bring Families — and the Country — Together Through Listening

In a year when the holidays will look markedly different than usual, we invite students nationwide to use the new remote recording platform StoryCorps Connect to record conversations with a grandparent, teacher, mentor, or another elder.

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Do you have the courage to listen? Take One Small Step

As we prepare for the outcome of the election, read a note from Dave Isay about One Small Step, our initiative to bring people together for conversations about their lives.

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Learn what your support makes possible.

At StoryCorps, we know the power of one great question. When we sit down face to face, ask to hear someone’s truth, and listen to it, we begin to recognize where our lives intersect. We learn we have more in common than what divides us.

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Stories for Veterans Day

Listen to voices and stories recorded through our Military Voices Initiative.

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Announcing Our First Location for One Small Step Cities: Wichita, Kansas

Calling all Kansans: StoryCorps selects Wichita for One Small Step Cities, the first of four locations where we anchor our work in 2020 and 2021.

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Voices to Honor for Indigenous Peoples’ Day

We’re highlighting the voices of Native American people through a few of their conversations at StoryCorps.

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Stories for Disability Awareness Month

We dedicate our newest collection to lifting up the voices of those living with disabilities and their many unique lived experiences.

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Stories to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

National Hispanic Heritage Month gives us a chance to recognize the stories, contributions, achievements, and lived experiences of Latina/Latino people across the United States. This month, we are offering tools to help you celebrate.

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Remembering September 11

In recognition of the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, we have put together a few stories from our September 11th Initiative.