How Do I Find Oral Histories?
Selected interviews and oral history collections from SCRC
Preview some of the oral history projects related to agriculture from the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History below:
- Appalachian Leadership and Community Outreach Oral History ProjectThis project consists of interviews concerning the Appalachian Leadership and Community Outreach project, a student service-learning program in cooperation with southeastern Kentucky colleges. Topics include recreation, education, community organization, community health services, hygeine education, nutrition education, Benny Ray Bailey, Lyndon B. Johnson, War on Poverty, Alice Lloyd College, Caney Creek Community Center, Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), Appalachian Volunteers, cultural enrichment programs, Bruner Foundation, John D. Rockefeller III.
- Family and Gender in the Coal Community Oral History ProjectThis project concerns the social and cultural history of coal communities in eastern Kentucky, with emphasis on Auxier and Van Lear. Family issues and gender roles are explored, as well as modernization, consumerism, religion, farm life, class distinctions, poverty, the Great Depression, company stores, birth control, divorce, company doctors, immigrants, home brew, homosexuality, blacks, the Ku Klux Klan, and the roles of women in the community.
- Women Of Coal Oral History ProjectThis project consists of interviews concerning women coal miners in Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia. Topics include coal mining, coal camps, unions, Great Depression, sexism, poverty, Native Americans in Appalachia, economic conditions, political activism, and environmental pollution.