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	NEW GRANT!

	We welcome applications from Texas nonprofit organizations for our Community Oral History Grant.


	E-WORKSHOP

	Want to do oral history and need some training to jump-start your project? Is your time limited and your travel budget tight? Take part in our live, interactive online workshop. Click here for more information.

Welcome to the Institute for Oral History

We believe in the power of the past to inform, instruct, and inspire present and future generations. Through dynamic, recorded interviews, oral history preserves the stories of individuals who helped create the fabric of history and whose lives, in turn, were shaped by the people, places, events, and ideas of their day.

The Institute for Oral History has recorded and preserved oral histories since 1970, earning along the way a strong reputation for multidisciplinary outreach to both academic scholars and community historians by providing professional leadership, educational tools, and research opportunities.

Search our collection of oral history memoirs to discover unique historical materials related to your research interests.
Explore the resources of our online workshop to learn how to do oral history and how to teach oral history in the classroom.
Learn ways the Institute offers support for your scholarly work through grants and fellowships.
Discover rich treasures of local history for Central Texans in our online documentaries and historic Waco neighborhoods essay.