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"Oral history captures the past in an authentic yet intimate way, providing researchers precious insight into significant trends, events, and issues by realizing the ways these occurrences were made manifest in an individual life." Stephen Sloan, Director |
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"You have helped to open up my memory. I would have never thought of any of these kind of things that you're asking had it not been asked. They would have just been quiet, like buried memories, and it's awakening." Alice Caufield, interviewee |
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Through the available oral history networks, novice and experienced oral historians alike share their passion for oral history. Baylor University has furnished leadership for state, national, and international oral history organizations since 1970. |
Welcome to the Institute for Oral History
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.
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Testimonies of Texas Liberators Available Online[5/1/2013]
The first clips of video oral histories recorded by the Institute for Oral History for the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission oral history project are now available online. Eventually, additional clips will be posted along with the transcripts of interviews with nineteen liberators of German concentration camps at the end of World War II.
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Dr. Sloan Presents Lecture/Workshop in South Texas
[2/11/2013]
Dr. Stephen Sloan, Institute director, is the invited plenary lecturer and workshop leader for the upcoming South Texas Oral History Workshop, Friday, February 15, through Saturday, February 16, at Texas A&M University in Kingsville.
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