Oral Histories
Capturing
Your Stories
Heritage Werks documents the untold stories and perspectives that make your history unique.
Our services are turnkey and include candidate background research; interviews conducted by our historians, leading authors and journalists; transcription; and deeds of gift. We work with professional film crews to document stories in person, and also offer at-home interviews through our mobile studio. We take great care in capturing stories from individuals of advanced age with fragile memories, to make sure that their contributions are memorialized for future generations.
Oral History Interview with Mike Piazza
Oral History Interview with Tommy Hilfiger
Documenting Stories
at Scale
When it comes to capturing stories at scale, we use a variety of tools, including our self-guided web-based story capture program to interview groups and subgroups of people, with a few questions or many, from micro topics to broad recollections, right through their desktop camera.
The interviewers were amazing, so well prepared that we captured stories that had never been shared before.
Our Capabilities Include
Background Research
Our historians conduct extensive research into the backgrounds of each candidate, so we can make the interviews as productive and enjoyable as possible.
Candidate Identification
We work with you to identify candidates that can fill in gaps in history, and then document the unwritten stories and perspectives that make your history unique.
Deed of Gift
We handle all of the paperwork necessary to capture, store and share oral history interviews, including securing a deed of gift from candidates prior to the interview.
Documentary Production
We partner with some of the world’s most creative agencies to produce award-winning documentaries that bring storytelling to an entirely new level.
Individual or Small Group Sessions
We interview individuals and small groups to capture multiple perspectives and recollections.
Professional Interviewers
We use leading authors, historians and journalists to document stories in person or via our online story capture programs.
Transcription
All interviews are transcribed and provided to candidates to review and edit to ensure the historical record is accurate.
Video Production
We use professional film crews, in-house recording studios (at Heritage Werks or onsite at client) and mobile recording studios to capture and share stories.
Web-based Story Capture at Scale
Our innovative online story-capture program uses self-guided questions to capture and record stories at scale.