Donated Oral History Collections

The oral histories listed below were donated to the Southwest Collection as part of their own collection. Contact the Reference Department for further information.

• Cisco College Interview Project (over 5,400 interviews, conducted by students in Dr. Duane Hale's history courses at Cisco Junior College from 1995-2019) https://swco.ttu.edu/ohc/index.php?title=Cisco_College_Oral_History_Collection ; Finding Aid found here: http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/02464/tsw-02464.html
  • Topics: general history of the Big Country (Abilene Texas area), family life, recollections of twentieth century events (WWII, Kennedy Assassination, childhood)
• Courtship and Sexuality Student Oral History Project (almost 150 student-conducted interviews under the supervision of Dr. Julie Willett, in the history department of Texas Tech University)
  • Topics: sexuality, courtship, dating, women in American culture
• Bob Gibson (interviews relating to Meadow Veteran Interview project, see below)
  • Topics: World War II
• Nita Gibson (series of twenty-six interviews conducted by Alice Olson)
  • Topics: dust bowl, WWII, women in farming, economics, politics
• Hale County Museum (over two hundred cassettes)
  • Topics: Plainview, Abernathy, Llano Estacado museum
• William Leo Hansberry (lectures and talks given by Dr. Hansberry from 1950s, loaned by Kwame Alford, Texas Tech history prof)
• Jorge Iber Class Interviews (twenty one interviews)
  • Topics: Mexican American history
• Last Frontier Museum (CD copies of interviews conducted by June Kennedy)
  • Topics: family histories of Cochran County
• Lubbock Area Real Estate Association (twenty-eight interviews conducted by Morgan Rudy)
• Meadow Museum Veterans Project (interviews conducted by Bob Gibson, sixty audio cassettes and thirteen transcript binders)
  • Topics: World War II
• Fred McVay (twenty five interviews)
  • Topics: Lubbock's North Overton area
• Muleshoe Public Library (twelve interviews)
  • Topics: Muleshoe history
• Ogallala Commons Student Oral History Project (seven interviews done for class project)
  • Topics: Nazareth Dairy
• Blair Pittman Oral Histories (twenty-seven interviews with I.C. Eason)
  • Topics: forms basis of the book King of the Dog People
• Jerry Ramsey (nineteen interviews on cassettes, bound transcripts available)
  • Topics: oral autobiography of E.W. "Tub" Ramsey
• Charles and Lou Rodenberger (twelve duplicated audio CDs)
• Jack Skilles (fourteen interviews)
  • Topics: early history of Langtry and Del Rio
• Square House Museum (ten interviews on CD, donated by Viola Moore)
• Stonewall Heritage Society (twelve interviews copied to CD, donated by Bernice Weinheimer)
• St. Paul Digital Oral Histories (three born digital audio recordings)
  • Topics: Lubbock's St. Paul's on the Plains Episcopal Church
• Terry County Historical Commission (forty cassettes, digitized)
  • Topics: Brownfield
• Toxic Tour of Texas (103 audio cassette interviews conducted by Sharon Stewart)
  • Topics: environmental issues, groundwater, hazardous waste
  • See corresponding manuscript collection finding aid here
• WWII Oral Histories, Texas State University (twenty two interviews, primarily conducted by Feris Bass)
  • Topics: World War II