The Middletown Digital Oral History Collection consists of audio and accompanying transcriptions for oral history interviews conducted with African American, Jewish and Catholic communities of Muncie, Indiana. In addition to the value of these "personal narratives" illuminating lives of Indiana citizens, the oral history collections selected for this digital collection provide research material on populations that were neglected in the seminal studies published by sociologists Robert and Helen Lynd in the 1920s using Muncie as Middletown, a representative American community.

This original project was funded by a Library Services and Technology Act grant for 2006-2007. The grant project included collaboration between Ball State University Libraries, the Center for Middletown Studies, St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, St. Lawrence Catholic Church, and St. Mary Catholic Church.

The Middletown Digital Oral History Collection also includes two additional collections, the Muncie Labor Oral History Collection and the Muncie Economic Development Oral History Collection, also known as “Muncie's Response to Economic Change: An Oral History.” These collections, funded through grants from the Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County, provide research materials on the history of organized labor and the past and current efforts to address economic change in Muncie and Delaware County.