Naturally, the Architecture of StoryCorps Tells Its Own Story

There are more than 50,000 interviews in the StoryCorps archive—testimonials from more than 90,000 Americans constituting well over 34,000 hours of recording time. You may know the work of StoryCorps best from the three-minute broadcast interviews that air on NPR's Morning Edition: stories like those of Danny and Annie Perasa, Anthony and Jessica Villarreal, Clayton Sherrod, and welp I'm going to cry just thinking about them.

StoryCorps records the stories of thousands of Americans from hundreds of towns in dozens of languages. Since its founding in 2003, the organization has set up semipermanent recording studios (called StoryBooths) in New York, Atlanta, San Francisco, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Nashville. The group's MobileBooth has gone even further. Ultimately, the nonprofit has recorded stories from across the nation's states and territories.