The Collection
The UNT Oral History Program includes:
- the largest public university collection of oral history interviews in Texas, with one of the nation’s pre-eminent World War II oral history collections;
- the preservation of more than 1,600 bound volumes of oral history interviews, with more than 150,000 pages of transcript;
- interviews on local African-American history, entrepreneurial history, university history, histories of the Holocaust, the New Deal, Texas politics, and other subjects;
- graduate classes in basic and advanced oral history; and
- the archives of the Oral History Association.
Students, journalists, researchers, genealogists, government agencies and members of the general public have used the collection to publish journalistic and scholarly articles, books, genealogies, and other materials.
Interview transcripts of the UNT Oral History Collection cannot be loaned. The vast majority of the interviews are available for photocopy for a fee. To make arrangments to access a transcript in the University Archives, contact Morgan Davis, University Archivist, or Perri Hamilton, at (940) 565-2766. To purchase a copy of a transcript, download the order form here.
Oral History Collection Index (Through September 2011)
Click on the above link and use Ctrl-F to perform keyword searches.
The Oral History Collection Index is fully searchable as a PDF document. It requires a viewer such as Adobe Reader.
