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World War II Pearl Harbor Survivors Oral History Project
174
World War II Prisoners of War Oral History Project
71
Civilian Conservation Corps History Oral History Project
60
Texas Community History Oral History Project
49
Texas Political History Oral History Project
33
World War II Pacific Theater Oral History Project
33
The Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project
26
Flying Voices Oral History Project
19
World War II Pearl Harbor Survivors (Navy) Oral History Project
19
Business History Oral History Project
16
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Oral History Interviews with Howard Yergin, January 1986
Interview with Howard Yergin, an employee of Caltex Petroleum Corporation from New York City. Yergin discusses his career with the company, including his education and Army service, hiring by Caltex, move to Shanghai in 1948 and business conducted there, businessmen who helped reestablish Caltex's Chinese market after WWII, fleeing China in 1949, attempts at recouping capital from the Chinese government, operations in Hong Kong, changes in the oil market over the years, corporate financing, internal reorganization, OPEC, Persian Gulf economies, South African operations, the tanker fleet, and the company's move from New York to Dallas.
Date:
{1986-01-23,1986-01-24}
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Yergin, Howard
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with John Plath Green, 1974
Interview with John Plath Green, an attorney and U.S. Army WWII veteran, concerning his experiences as the officer in charge of the liberation of American and other Allied prisoners-of-war in Japan at the end of World War II.
Date:
{1976-02-06,1976-03-01}
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Green, John Plath
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Marvin "Smokey" Montgomery, 1996-1997
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Interview with Marvin "Smokey" Montgomery, musician, concerning his experiences as a member of the "Light Crust Doughboys" western swing band, 1935-42. Early musical career as a banjo player in a traveling tent show; employment with the 'Wanderers"; comments about Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel; work with Gene Autry and Republic Pictures; acquiring the nicknames "Junior" and later "Smokey"; "Doughboy recording sessions; comments about Bob Willis; comments about individual members of the "Doughboys" band; World War II and its effects on the "Doughboys"; employment making naval shells for Crown Machine and Tool in Fort Worth; relations between Bob Wills and 'Pappy' O'Daniel; moonlighting on the honky tonk circuit with the "Southern Selectors"; the "Doughboys" record sales; jamming with African-American musicians; performing with the "Duncan Coffee Grinders" during World War II; his return to the "Doughboys" after World War II; performances with the "Texo Hired Hands"; performing with the "Levee Singers" in the Levee Club in Dallas during th the 1960s; comments about rockabilly performer Ronnie Dawson; comments about the record business; his career as a music arranger; operation of the Sumet-Bernet Recording Studios in Fort Worth; employment as music director for the "Big D Jamboree," 1941-60; his song writing career; experiences with "Lefty" …
Date:
{1996-09-07,1997-03-13}
Creator:
Daniels, John D.; Schotte, Will & Greenhaw, Art
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Max Pila, 1993-1994
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Interview with Max Pila, a Holocaust survivor from Zlav, Poland. Pila discusses his family and Jewish background, antisemitism, the German invasion, life in the ghetto, executions, labor, transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau, daily experience in internment, mining at Janina, the forced march to Bergen-Belsen, liberation, and life afterwards.
Date:
{1993-10-15,1994-04-01}
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Pila, Max
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Melvin Land, 1993
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Oral history interviews with Melvin Land, a veteran of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) from Coalton, Oklahoma. The interview contains details of Land's childhood and the death of his mother, his experiences in the Great Depression, his experience being a recruit and an educational advisor in the CCC, his experiences as an active duty officer for the Naval Air Station, and his experiences working at the Rusk State Hospital.
Date:
{1993-02-27,1993-03-16}
Creator:
Rowe, Beverly & Land, Melvin
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Olgie Ivey, Mary Louise Ivey Bardas, and Ben Ivey Jr., 1979
Interviews with Ben Ivey Jr., Olgie (Mrs. Ben) Ivey Sr., and Mary Louise Ivey Bardas, from Denton, Texas. The interviewees discuss Ben Ivey Sr's business ventures in Denton, including their family history, each's upbringing and education, the history and operations of businesses owned by the family, life in Denton, neighbors, and local government.
Date:
{1979-10-17,1979-11-14}
Creator:
Jenkins, Floyd; Ivey, Olgie; Bardas, Mary Louise Ivey & Ivey, Ben, Jr.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Pete Evans, 1984
Interview with Pete Evans, a Texas National Guard veteran and POW from Hamby, Texas. Evans discusses his time as a member of 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (the "Lost Battalion") which was captured by the Japanese in March, 1942, including: his upbringing; entering the Guard and training; mobilization, the Louisiana Maneuvers, and deployment to East Asia; diversion from the Philippines to Brisbane and then Java, after December 7th, 1941; assignment to Sangosari near Malang; the Japanese invasion and the American surrender; and experiences in internment at Surabaya, Tanjong Priok in Batavia, Changi Camp in Singapore, Nagasaki, and the Orio district of Kitakyūshū.
Date:
{1984-02-15,1984-02-29,1984-03-07}
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Evans, Pete
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Ralph Hall, 1970-1971
Interview with Ralph Hall, an attorney, a former county judge, a businessman, and a Democratic member of the Texas Senate from Rockwall. He discusses his experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-first and Sixty-second Legislatures. Hall talks about the one-year versus two-year budget, tax legislation, the University of Texas at Dallas, teacher pay raises, anti-riot legislation, the state sales tax, the "grocery tax," the destination tax, Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes, deficit financing, the corporate profits tax, as well as the Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal, ethics legislation, redistricting, his campaign for the office of lieutenant governor, and Governor Preston Smith.
Date:
{1970-01-17,1971-07-02}
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Hall, Ralph
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Sheila R. Allen, 1991
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Interview with Sheila Allen concerning her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas from 1958 to 1991. Allen discusses her education at Hamilton Park School, the desegregation of Hamilton Park School, her experiences at Richardson Junior High, her experiences in law school at the University of Texas, the relationships between Hamilton Park and other African-American communities, school activities as a teenager, and the "Buy Out."
Date:
{1991-06-21,1991-09-04}
Creator:
Wilson, William H. & Allen, Sheila R.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Vivian T. Starks, 1991
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Interview with Vivian Starks, a schoolteacher, concerning her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas from 1954 to 1991. Starks discusses her segregated education in Bryan, Texas, Wiley College, her teaching career in segregated Dallas schools, her decision to buy a home in Hamilton Park, transportation problems, home improvements, church activities, Civic League, the "Buy Out," zoning problems, Interorganizational Council and political activities, employment at Hamilton Park School, the desegregation of Hamilton Park School and her transfer to Richardson Independent School District, and Pacesetter.
Date:
{1991-04-23,1991-05-08}
Creator:
Wilson, William H. & Starks, Vivian T.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Willie B. Johnson, February, 1990
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Interview with Mrs. Willie B. Johnson, a nurse from Kaufman, Texas. Johnson discusses growing up in a sharecropping family, racism in the community, work on the farm, her education, becoming a nurse and working at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, moving to Hamilton Park, unfair access to utilities, her children's education and difficulties with the school system, the Civic League, her husband, her children, other places she's lived, police harassment, the NAACP, and life in Hamilton Park. An addendum includes additional biographical information about Mrs. Johnson.
Date:
{1990-02-09,1990-02-22}
Creator:
Wilson, William H. & Johnson, Willie B.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Zan W. Holmes Jr., 1991
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Interview with Zan W. Holmes, Jr., a clergyman and community leader, concerning his experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas during the 1950s and 1960s. Holmes discusses his youth and adolescent years in Waco, segregated education, college at Huston-Tillotson (1952-1956), entry to Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University (1956), organizing the Hamilton Park Methodist Church and his partnership there, his home in Hamilton Park, his political activities, church youth programs, zoning problems, and Hamilton Park School and desegregation.
Date:
{1991-09-19,1991-11-05}
Creator:
Wilson, William H. & Holmes, Zan W., Jr.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with O. H. "Ike" Harris, November 5, 1969
Interview with Republican Senator O. H. (Ike) Harris, an attorney from Dallas, Texas. In the interview, Senator Harris describes his personal experiences and views as a member of the Sixty-first legislature. He also discloses some biographical information as well as his decision to enter politics. Senator Harris discusses his personal political philosophies on issues including one versus two-year budgets, revenue legislation, welfare legislation, and state minimum wage laws. He also comments on fellow politicians Governor Preston Smith and Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes.
Date:
November 5, 1969
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Harris, Ike, 1932-
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Alla Clary, August 12, 1969
Interview with Alla Clary, former secretary to Representative Sam Rayburn, from McKinney, Texas. In the interview, Miss Clary discusses her personal experiences and recollections from her many years of service in the office of Congressman Rayburn in Washington D.C.
Date:
August 12, 1969
Creator:
Kamp, H. W. & Clary, Alla
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Allan Shivers, 1966-1968
Interview with Allan Shivers, a former state senator, lieutenant governor, and governor of Texas, 1950-57. The interview includes Shivers' observations on political career of Lyndon Johnson, the Stevenson-Johnson senatorial race of 1948, the Stevenson-Eisenhower presidential campaign of 1952, the Johnson presidential race of 1960, Texas Democratic politics from 1952-56, and the Fifty-third State Legislature. The interview also includes his opinion on the governor's role in state party organization, the state Democratic Convention of 1951, the gubernatorial election of 1954, veterans land board controversy from 1954-55, as well as insurance scandals of the mid-1950s and the lame-duck governor.
Date:
July 24, 1969
Creator:
Brewer, Thomas B.; Gantt, Fred & Shivers, Allan
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Ed Gossett, June-August 1969
Interview with Judge Ed Gossett, judge of the Criminal District Court in Dallas, Texas. In the first interview, Gossett discusses his childhood in Louisana and Texas, his undergraduate education at the University of Texas at Austin, his time as a lawyer and as district attorney for the 46th judicial district, and his election to Congress in 1938. The second interview includes Gossett's discussion of his tenure as a Congressman.
Date:
1969-06/1969-08
Creator:
Kamp, H. W. & Gossett, Ed Lee, 1902-1990
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Albin, May 30, 1969
Interview with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Albin, who have been resident farmers in the town of Taft, Texas for a number of years. In the interview, the Albin's describe their observations on land speculation, settlement, and development around the rural town. They also talk about when they first moved to Taft in 1910, and what agrarian life was like until the 1930's. The Albin's discuss Mexican-Anglo relations in the community as well as the rise and impacts of the Ku Klux Klan.
Date:
May 30, 1969
Creator:
Stephens, A. Ray & Albin, J. W.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Robert Bluntzer, May 30, 1969
Interview with Robert Bluntzer, a resident of Corpus Christi, Texas. Bluntzer discusses growing up near Round Lake and Robstown, homeseekers and subdivision of ranches in the area in the 1900-10s, social life and recreation in the area, politics, law enforcement, his family history and Bluntzer, Texas, local preservation efforts, sports, and Third Awakening revivalists. Before the interview is a fragment of a conversation between Bluntzer, Stephens, and an unnamed attorney about local history and the Sons and Daughters of San Patricio de Hibernia (a local foundation for Irish descendants), recorded by Stephens.
Date:
May 30, 1969
Creator:
Stephens, A. Ray & Bluntzer, Robert
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Bessie Morris, May 29, 1969
Interview with Bessie Morris, a farmer from Taft, Texas. Morris discusses her experiences moving to Portland, Texas from western Kansas in 1913, her experiences farming in Portland and Taft, and life overall in the region.
Date:
May 29, 1969
Creator:
Stephens, A. Ray & Morris, Bessie
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sparks, May 29, 1969
Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sparks, husband and wife from Portland, Texas who are in the cotton farming, banking, and insurance industries. In the interview, Mr. and Mrs. Walter both describe their childhood and early years in school and work. They both share their personal observations on land speculation, settlement, and development in the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, where they have been residents for many years. They also describe the small town's social life and relations with Hispanics.
Date:
May 29, 1969
Creator:
Stephens, A. Ray & Sparks, Walter
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Mrs. Dick Gerdes, May 29, 1969
Interview with Mrs. Dick Gerdes, a resident of Sinton, Texas. Gerdes discusses her family's origins in Alabama prior to settling the Sinton area, life in the town in the early 20th century, and the Ku Klux Klan's presence in the town at the time.
Date:
May 29, 1969
Creator:
Stephens, A. Ray & Gerdes, Mrs. Dick
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Virginia Benson, May 29, 1969
Interview with Virginia Benson, a resident of Sinton, Texas. Benson describes life in Sinton in the 1910s and '20s and the area's growth and development over that time.
Date:
May 29, 1969
Creator:
Stephens, A. Ray & Benson, Virginia
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with W. P. Mullen, May 29, 1969
Interview with W. P. Mullen, a carpenter from Taft, Texas. Mullen recounts his time living in Taft and attending Bayview College, Portland, Texas, in the 1900s and '10s.
Date:
May 29, 1969
Creator:
Stephens, A. Ray & Mullen, W. P.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Daniel Moore, May 28, 1969
Interview with Daniel Moore, a retired farmer, who shares his observations on the land speculation, settlement, and development in the Coastal Bend area of South Texas from 1909 to the 1920s. He also discusses the agrarian social life, Mexican-Anglo relations, the economy of the area, and mule raising.
Date:
May 28, 1969
Creator:
Stephens, A. Ray & Moore, Daniel P.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library