UNT Oral History Program

One of the oldest academic oral history programs in the United States, the UNT Oral History Program is a longstanding research initiative of the University of North Texas. Housed at Willis Library on UNT’s main campus in Denton, Texas, the Oral History Program is affiliated with the UNT Department of History.

The program records, transcribes, and archives oral history interviews covering a variety of subject matters in order to preserve the history of the North Texas region, including the Dallas-Fort Worth-Denton Metroplex. The program trains UNT students in the theory and methods of oral history, and also conducts workshops with members of the larger community who are interested in preserving their own histories. The program has several ongoing partnerships with local history societies and historical museums, fellow colleges and universities, and community organizations.

All interview recordings are transcribed. The transcripts are edited, bound, and archived in Willis Library, where they are available to scholarly researchers and members of the general public through the University Archives. The strengths of the collection include (but are not limited to) World War II history, with a collection of over 1,000 interviews with WWII veterans; Texas political history; Texas business history; history of the New Deal in Texas; and North Texas civil rights history. For more information, see the Oral History Program's web page.

A portion of the collection has been digitized and made available to members of the UNT community via the UNT Digital Library.

Contact

Dr. Todd Moye

940-565-4523

Todd.Moye@unt.edu

Address

Oral History Program
1155 Union Circle #305430
Denton, TX 76203-5017

URL

https://oralhistory.unt.edu/unt-oral-history-program

At a Glance

Basic statistics about this partner.
880 Items	6 Types	22 Titles
5 collections	13 Decades	2 Languages
190 Counties	40 States	42 Countries
130,784 Usage	12 years, 5 months ago Partner Added	3 months, 1 week ago Last Updated

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Oral History Interviews with Eddie Bernice Johnson, 1973

Oral History Interviews with Ralph Hall, 1970-1971

Oral History Interview with Kingsley Matthews, September 30, 1989

Oral History Interview with Philip Brodsky, December 11, 1989

Oral History Interview with Grant Jones, August 21, 1979

Oral History Interview with John W. Wisecup, July 28, 1987

Oral History Interview with Louis Edgar Turcotte, Jr., February 4, 1988

Oral History Interview with Lloyd A. Lawrence, March 25, 1989

Oral History Interview with Jack Brown, April 23, 1988

Oral History Interview with C. Shephard, July 14, 1988

Oral History Interview with Weldon O. Western, February 18, 1987

Oral History Interview with Francis X. Fernandez de Garyalde, April 28, 1985

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UNT Oral History Program, partner contributing to The Portal to Texas History. University of North Texas Libraries. https://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/partners/UNTOHP/ accessed May 9, 2024.