Teacher Appreciation Week #GoogleDoodle Featuring StoryCorps Stories

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Teacher Appreciation Week #GoogleDoodle Featuring StoryCorps Stories

We are kicking off Teacher Appreciation Week 2021 in partnership with Google to honor educators and highlight the voices of teachers and students.

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Help us welcome 175 new donors to the StoryCorps family by June 30th.

Your support makes our work as facilitators, oral historians, and archivists possible. Make a gift to StoryCorps today so we can ensure that no story goes untold.

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Growing One Small Step — When It's Needed Most

StoryCorps is expanding One Small Step, our effort to facilitate and broadcast conversations with people in America of opposing viewpoints, to six additional communities in 2021.

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The Science behind One Small Step

The “contact hypothesis” is a straightforward but powerful idea. It says this: People who come from different social and cultural groups can learn to like and accept one another through repeated interactions, such as through conversations. Contact can reduce prejudice and promote peace.

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A Daily Dose of Humanity

Whether you are new to StoryCorps or have been with us since the beginning, take a few minutes to explore some of our favorite uplifting, inspiring, and laugh-out-loud stories. A Family That Knows How to Laugh at Itself Laura Greenberg grew up as part of a gregarious family in Queens, New York. Her upbringing […]

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LGBTQ+ Voices to Honor This Pride Month

We’re celebrating Pride Month by lifting up the stories of LGBTQ+ history-makers.

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Celebrating the Stories of Chicago

Goodbyes are bittersweet. After more than eight years — and many wonderful interviews — in the region, StoryCorps is closing its operations and recording booth in Chicago in September 2021. We’re proud to have had a booth and exhibition space at the Chicago Cultural Center and to have partnered with WBEZ 91.5 FM to preserve, […]

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We Belong to Each Other: New StoryCorps Animated Shorts

This May, we’re releasing our new animated season: “We Belong to Each Other,” a collection of stories that show how we care for one another through word and deed.

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My One Small Step Experience

Since StoryCorps began piloting One Small Step in 2018, more than 1,500 people in 40 cities have taken part in the project. What is it like to have a conversation with a stranger?

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Announcing the 2021 Military Voices Virtual Tour

This year, we are honoring veterans and members of the military community across the country by recording and preserving their stories.