Oral histories project turns attention to Latinos - CNN.com: WASHINGTON (CNN) -- You can learn a lot from people by listening to their stories.
That has been the driving idea behind StoryCorps. Since 2003 the nonprofit project has been collecting oral histories from everyday Americans across the United States.
One copy of the recorded history goes to the participant and one copy to the American Folklife Ceter at the Library of Congress. To date, StoryCorps has recorded more than 27,000 stories, many of which have been broadcast on public radio stations.
The project is now turning its attention to the stories of Latinos -- on Thursday, StoryCorps launched "Historias" ("Stories" in Spanish) as its latest effort.
Historias, funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, aims at collecting the stories of Latinos in the United States, including the territory of Puerto Rico. StoryCorps staffers will be traveling across the country in two mobile radio studios, Airstream trailers with a small soundproof room in the back. Inside each studio there is a table with two microphones and two sets of headphones. Participants sit and share their stories.
