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WWU student, faculty create AI-assisted tool to navigate oral histories
WWU Computer Science’s Dustin O’Hara and alumnus Jack Sovelove have created an AI-assisted system to make it easier to explore hundreds of hours of long-form oral-history interviews about the United States Civil Rights Movement.
Western Washington University published this notice on 2026-10-01. The following highlights are selected excerpts from the full source.
WWU Computer Science’s Dustin O’Hara and alumnus Jack Sovelove have created an AI-assisted system to make it easier to explore hundreds of hours of long-form oral-history interviews about the United States Civil Rights Movement.
SpokenHistory.org is a public digital-history platform with 140 interviews from civil rights activists, artists, educators, organizers and changemakers.
SpokenHistory uses AI to let users navigate through the Library of Congress’ Civil Rights History Project by topic, person or keyword search to create and save interview playlists. The site also includes lesson plans for K-12 educators to teach students about the movement through the archives’ materials.
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Western Washington University →Source publication: Oct 1, 2026
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Brief prepared: Oct 1, 2026
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