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Agricultural History College Station, Texas, United States. In 1974 the Research Historian for the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station (TAES), Irvin May, initiated a seven-year oral history project designed to enrich existing records of the station and expand knowledge of agricultural history. With the aid of the former director of TAES, R.D. Lewis, May conducted approximately 130 interviews with experts throughout the state. All interviews have been transcribed and are open. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Maritime Labor History College Station, Texas, United States. These interviews were conducted in 1982 and 1983 by a Ph.D. candidate in history, Donald Willett, who was writing a dissertation on the National Maritime Union. All are open, and some are transcribed. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Mexican Revolution Project College Station, Texas, United States. This series concerns the experiences of individuals who fled Mexico during their revolution, 1911 into the 1920's. The interviewer was a Ph.D. candidate in cultural geography in 1973, Dr. Mary Lee Nolan. Some tapes are in Spanish, except where stated. All are transcribed and open. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Military History Oral History Program College Station, Texas, United States. This project began in 1980 with a grant from the Association of Former Students to interview alumni who became general officers and retired in Texas. Originally, it was entitled "Aggies to Generals". Interviews with the A&M generals are oral biographies and explore a number of issues: family life and early years, education at Texas A&M, Corps of Cadets, and ideas concerning leadership, women and blacks in the service, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, and change in the military in recent U.S. history. The individual's military career is investigated in detail. Unless stated, Terry Anderson was the interviewer, and tapes are transcribed and open. During the mid-1980s, the project was expanded. Anderson and many of his students conducted interviews with numerous Vietnam veterans, and almost all have been transcribed and are open. Also see interviews listed under Vietnam Generation. In 1988, the Collection received a dozen tapes from the late Lt. Col. Jerome A. McDavitt, USA, a survivor of Japanese prisoner-of-war camps in the Philippines, 1942-1945. He sent questionnaires to about twenty survivors of Bataan and Corregidor and they recorded their testimonials in similar fashion in 1975. All participants discuss personal background, unit assignment, starvation, and conditions in the P.O.W. camps. Acoustical quality, and amount of information varies from fair to poor. None are transcribed and all are open. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Miscellaneous Tapes and Transcriptions College Station, Texas, United States. The collection contains almost 300 miscellaneous tapes and transcriptions which are not oral history: over 30 tapes of commencement exercises, dedication ceremonies, and Aggie Musters; almost 50 tapes collected by John Q. Anderson concerning folk medicine and music; four short transcriptions about the folklorist, J. Frank Dobie; long interviews with science fiction writer Chad Oliver, artist E. M. (Buck) Schiwetz, and cattleman Fred A. Sommers; interviews with about ten people who use the Wendish vocabulary; 60 tapes of various sessions of the 1985 Texas A&M International Water Conference; and numerous tapes of the college of Liberal Arts faculty meetings, 1972-1985. All are open. In addition, there are a number of interviews on various topics which are oral histories, and the Slave Narratives, which are listed at the end of this section. Unless indicated, all are transcribed and open. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Oceanography College Station, Texas, United States. The project concerns the origins and growth of oceanography in the United States, and it examines the development and expansion of the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Scripps Institute of Oceanography, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Slave Narratives College Station, Texas, United States. During the 1930s, the federal government commissioned interviewing former slaves. It was a project of the Works Progress Administration. The Collection acquired sixteen recordings which are in poor condition. All are open. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Texas A&M University Oral History Collection College Station, Texas, United States. This collection includes about 90 interviews concerning many aspects of the university, especially concentrating on agriculture, engineering, and veterinary medicine. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Texas History Collection College Station, Texas, United States. Caldwell County: As part of the nation's bicentennial celebration, citizens of Caldwell County initiated an oral history of their county and Lockhart, Texas. They interviewed about 125 residents, and some group meetings (which are not listed in this guide). All interviews are open, not transcribed, and located in the Learning Resources Division (6th floor) of the Sterling C. Evans Library, TAMU. /Bryan - College Station: In 1982 the Historical Committee of the City of College Station approved a $6,000 grant for a history graduate student, Debbie Parks, so that she could write a Master's thesis on the history of the city. Unless stated, all interviews are by Debbie Parks, transcribed and open. In addition, some interviews were held with Bryan residents and are transcribed and open. Also consult Descendants of Pioneers of Central Texas. /Descendants of Pioneers of Central Texas: These interviews concern the settlement and growth of central Texas and especially Bryan/College Station from about 1900 to the 1940's. Participants have various backgrounds and occupations and they discuss topics such as race relations, politics, farming, transportation, industry, and changes at Texas A&M. All interviews are transcribed and open. /East Texas Oral History Consortium: These interviews concern many subjects in east Texas history, including the founding of Tyler State College, early days at Texas A&M, farmers from Nacogdoches fighting in WWI, and a history of the railroad from the turn of the century. All are transcribed, open, and bound in a five volume set. /Lignite Mining in Texas: These interviews concern the Rockdale mines from 1900 to the 1920's. Common topics include relations with Mexican miners, life in the coal mining community, and some mention WWI and the Depression. All participants were interviewed by William Childs, and they are transcribed and open. /Urban Planning in Texas: The project was conceived and initiated by Robert Cornish, Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Texas A&M. He received grants from the Texas chapter of the American Planning Association and assistance from his department in the late 1970's and since then has interviewed almost 70 individuals who have been influential in the planning of Austin, Houston, Ft. Worth, Corpus Christi, Galveston, El Paso and San Antonio. All tapes are being transcribed, are open, and unless stated, Robert Cornish conducted the interviews. /Texas Miscellaneous Collection: Varies. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
Vietnam Generation College Station, Texas, United States. During the 1980's Terry Anderson began research on the 1960s. He, and some students, began conducting interviews with individuals who were instrumental during the period from Kennedy to Watergate. The following interviews concern a number of issues: civil rights, anti-war movement, women's liberation, student demonstrations and protests. For Vietnam topics also consult Military History. Most interviews have been transcribed and all are open. [View Collection Details] [View Repository Details]
