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.
2,117 Items	5 Types	102 Titles
5 collections	8 Decades	2 Languages
546 Counties	49 States	93 Countries
147,952 Usage	13 years, 6 months ago Partner Added	2 months, 1 week ago Last Updated

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Oral History Interviews with Lavonia Ephram, 1990

Oral History Interviews with James Cotten, 1964-1965

Oral History Interview with Joe Jagoe, March 15, 1983

Oral History Interview with J. B. Floyd, October 22, 1982

Oral History Interview with Claude Edge, March 21, 1982

Oral History Interview with Archie A. Ladshaw, October 20, 1980

Oral History Interview with Loyd Smith, August 26, 1980

Oral History Interview with Philip Welhausen, May 14, 1980

Oral History Interview with Roy R. Evans, May 16, 1980

Oral History Interview with Anne Davis and Don Davis, October 7, 1979

Oral History Interview with Russell-Newman Manufacturing CO., 1978

Oral History Interview with R. L. Selby and Lewis Marie Selby, September 21, 1979

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UNT Oral History Program, partner contributing to UNT Digital Library. University of North Texas Libraries. https://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/partners/UNTOHP/ accessed May 21, 2025.