Oral history is a way to gather information from people who took part in past events.
Gathering oral history is the technique of interviewing people who lived through historical events or time periods and recording their answers. The person being interviewed is often called the interview subject. One such program, designed to provide work for unemployed writers, was called the Federal Writers' Project. This project employed more than 300 writers. Many people who became famous writers were interviewers for the Federal Writers Project.