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Center historians develop source material through a program of tape recorded interviews, a valuable research technique which provides access to historical sources which would otherwise remain untapped. Interviews are subsequently transcribed to allow easy use of the material. Tapes, transcripts, and related materials are housed at the Center or elsewhere in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. These archives are open to students and professional researchers and photocopying is available. The Center was established as the Oral History Project in 1968, and began to expand in the late seventies in response to a growing professional interest in this research technique. It was designated a Center by the University's Board of Trustees in 1981, and continues to increase both the number of research projects coming under its umbrella and the services it provides. Center-based activities have been supported by funding from such agencies as the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Connecticut Humanities Council and the U.S. Office of Education, as well as by private sources at the University of Connecticut. Publications originating from the Center include: Mills and Meadows: A Pictorial History of Northeastern Connecticut, From the Old Country: An Oral History of European Migration to America, and Connecticut Workers and Technological Change. Witnesses to Nuremberg: American Participants at the War Crime Trials (Twayne/Simon and Schuster Oral History Series). Visitors since June 1996 Web site designed and maintained by Roberta Lusa