Media producers, content creators, and documentarians familiar with Columbia’s oral history collections know that through a relatively easy licensing and permissions process, they can find and showcase audio gems for their productions.
Most recently, NPR’s award-winning program Throughline put to good use the extensive oral history interview with Frances Perkins. Using audio to “bring history to life,” the episode The Woman Behind the New Deal locates Perkins as a central figure in many of the social safety net innovations that we take for granted today.