Oral History

Our online award-winning oral history collection consists of more than 350 interviews. They are arranged alphabetically by last name under individual Alpha headings below: A, B, C, etc. The interviews feature photographs of most interviewees, an interview description, downloadable interview transcripts, and audio files that can be streamed or downloaded. In 2007 we received the Texas Oral History Association's Mary Faye Barnes Award for Excellence in Community History Projects. The History Center recognizes that these interviews are a product of a time and place and the words, ideas, and expressions they contain are the responsibilty of those speaking. The History Center does not condone racism or sexism, but presents these interviews as they were originally recorded and transcribed, because to do otherwise would be the same as to claim these prejudices never existed.