Community History Project: Stories of the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Connecticut Historical Society’s Community History Project (CHP) is a public-facing initiative, focused on contemporary collecting. The project focused on collecting oral history interviews to document the impact of Covid-19 on Connecticans, particularly on Black and Brown communities. This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. I will discuss how we used a spreadsheet to ingest compound objects into the CTDA.