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Oral History @ UF

This library guide provides information on oral history resources at the George A. Smathers Libraries and online.

Art of Aging 

This project was a partnership with the UF Health Science Center Libraries and the UF College of Medicine, with the purpose of enhancing medical education among 4th-year students on the required Geriatrics Clerkship rotation. Contains interviews narrated by residents of the Oak Hammock Retirement Community and their lived experiences. 

Asian American History Project 

Contains interviews representing the lives and histories of Asian American peoples. 

Florida History 

Grouped among the Florida History Collections are interviews representing the history of Florida. The collection includes approximately 4,000 interviews and more than 85,000 pages of transcribed material, making it the largest oral history archive in the South and one of the major collections in the country.

Florida Queer History Project 

The Florida Queer History Project centers queer-identifying Floridians’ self-reflections as a collection of oral history interviews. It seeks to preserve the history of queer life in Florida amidst continuous scrutiny.  

Joel Buchanan Archive of African American Oral History 

Contains over 800 oral history interviews with African American elders throughout Florida and the wider Gulf South. These interviews and the overall projects associated with them have resulted in numerous public programs, university seminars on African American history and Ethnic Studies, and community-based oral history workshops.

Latinx Diaspora in the Americas 

Contains interviews representing the lives and histories of Latinx peoples and diasporic communities in Florida. 

Mississippi Delta Freedom Project 

This project is a subset of the Joel Buchanan Archive and includes oral histories and related SPOHP materials collected by SPOHP students and researchers over several years. The collection content focuses on civil and labor rights leaders from Freedom Summer 1964 in Sunflower County, Mississippi. The collection also contains materials collected during the 50th Anniversary of Freedom Summer (June 2014). 

Native Peoples of the Americas 

Contains interviews representing the lives and histories of Native American peoples focusing on communities within southeastern North America. This collection contains interviews from the Doris Duke project from the 1960s and 1970s, more information can be found on this affiliated guide: Native American Oral History Interviews

SPOHP Internship 

Contains interviews pertaining to the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program internships. 

Tidewater Main Street Development Project 

Includes transcripts and podcasts for the Tidewater Main Street Development Project, recorded by SPOHP staff and students over the course of two years beginning in 2014 with the Virginia Fieldwork in Folklore research trip. The interviews focus on folklore, traditional crafts, and rural development among residents of Mathews and Middlesex Counties. 

University of Florida History 
Contains interviews representing campus life and the history of the University of Florida.

Veterans History Project 

The Veterans History Project, founded in 2000, is a collection of 300+ oral history interviews with veterans from military conflicts from the Civil War to present day in partnership with the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.

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