Oral history preserves the past by recording people’s real voices. It’s not just about recording the stories people tell. It’s also about the way they tell them. Oral history is about memory and humanity. It’s a form of history that anyone can be a part of.

Amanda Rivera, a PhD candidate in American Studies at Yale University, discusses the history of Connecticut's Puerto Rican communities.

This excerpt is from an episode of Disrupted produced by Kevin Chang Barnum, Robyn Doyon-Aitken, Meg Dalton and Meg Fitzgerald. 

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