Browse Our Interviews by Project Name
Korean Immigrants In Indiana (1990), #073
10 interviews. Time Period: 1940s-80s. Life histories of male and female
Korean immigrants.
Legal Profession in Indiana (1976-1977, 1979), #113
6 interviews. Time Period: 1920s-70s. State legislature, local legal
systems, legal education, Ku Klux Klan, penal system, Indiana Bar Association,
circuit courts, organizations involved in legal system or legal issues.
Life History: Ruth Rives (1998), #074
1 interview. Time Period: 1930s-90s. Growing up in Berlin before and
during World War II, post-war Berlin, air lift, immigration to America,
children, career, education, religion.
Louisville Tornado of 1974 (1976), #075
17 interviews. Time Period: 1970s. Anecdotes of survivors. Damage done
by tornado. Aftermath.
Manhattan Project (1982), #076
2 interviews. Time Period: 1930s-40s. Development of the atom bomb.
WWII. Scientists' views of A-bomb research. Life histories and personal
anecdotes of scientists.
Media Perceptions of Contemporary Problems (1975-1976), #077
10 interviews. Time Period: 1970s, but interviewees asked to
recall teenage years, which is generally 1920s. Interviewees are
mostly IU professors. Use of the media. Accuracy of the media.
Use of world resources. Overpopulation. U.S. role in supplying
the world with basic necessities. Expectations for the future.
Contrast between 17-year-olds now and in 1920s.
Medical Profession in Indiana (1975, 1976, 1978), #078
3 interviews. Time Period: 1910s-70s. Interviewees born turn
of century. Life histories. Medical practice. Training.
Advances in medicine. Patient anecdotes.
Mental Health Care in Indiana (1977), #079
4 interviews. Time Period: 1960s-70s. Treatment of mental
illness by chemical means. Funding by state. Systems of care in
community centers and state hospitals. Concern for patients'
rights. Public attitudes to mental illness. Special education.
Department of Mental Health.
Movie Theater History in Bloomington, Indiana (1998), #080
10 interviews. Memorable movies. Theaters in Bloomington.
Theater fires. Theater interiors. Theater staff.
Changes in the movie theater business.
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National Forests in Indiana (1977, 1981), #082
4 interviews. Time Period: 1960s-70s. Use of natural resources. Public
attitudes to forests. Hoosier National Forest. Conservation vs. use. State
lobbying and legislation.
People of Indianapolis (1983), #084
43 interviews. Time Period: 1920s-80s. Interviewees of all ages, but
a preponderance born before 1910. Being African- American in Indianapolis.
Migration in search for jobs. Work. Family. Union work. Black musicians.
Transformation of neighborhood from white to black. Civil Rights. Being
a black professional. Unions. Racism. Racial relations.
Personal Experiences in World War I (1974-80), #085
9 interviews. Time Period: 1900-1920s. Transportation to Europe. Training. Weapons. Battle conditions. Lives of interviewees before the war. Public attitudes to war. Campaigns and battles. Life in the trenches. Armistice.
Perspectives
on the Indiana Economy (1981-1982), #086
30 interviews. Time Period: 1920s-80s. Interviewees are
business leaders (rather than "workers") in all aspects of
Indiana economy, past and present. Farming. Industry. Banking.
Small business. Prospects for future. Changing economic
conditions. Business development.
Philanthropy: History of Fund-raising (1988), #087
20 interviews. Time Period: 1920s-80s. Life histories of
fundraisers. Skills. Motivations and values. Public images of
fundraising. Women in profession. Causes served by fundraising.
Changes in profession. Professionalization and organizations.
Generational issues.
Planned Parenthood Association (1976-1977), #088
3 interviews. Time Period: 1960s-70s. Bloomington and
Indianapolis. Growth, staff and funding. Community response to
association. Connections in local, state, national connections.
Other social organizations. Nurse practitioners. Contraception.
Port Gibson, Mississippi (1992), #107
2 interviews. Time Period: 1930s-1990s. Great Depression. Black voter registration.
Civil Rights Movement. World War II. School integration.
Preservers of the Past: Indiana County Historical Societies (1995-1996), #089
11 interviews. Time Period: 1960s-90s. Historical society development.
Publications. Exhibits. Events. Funding. Volunteers. Connections of
members to local history. History as teacher for the present and
future. Importance of preserving local history.
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Remembering Indiana in the Twentieth Century (1995-1997), #090
15 interviews. Time Period: 1930s-90s. Interviewees from Indianapolis
and Evansville. Flanner House Homes in Indianapolis. Union members in
Evansville. Daughters of the American Revolution in Evansville. Race
relations. Changing roles of women. Changes in economy in cities and
the country as a whole. Great Depression. World War II. Changes in family
life in the twentieth century.
Retired IU Faculty (1985), #091
15 interviews. Time Period: 1910s-80s. Interviewees born
around turn of century. Early lives of interviewees. Career
development. Teaching. Research. Student life. Retirement.
Women in the academy.
Roller Skating Association Oral History (2000-2001), #109
4 interviews. Time Period: 1930s-1990s. Involvement with the Roller
Skating Rink Operators Association and Roller Skating Association.
Roller rink management. Equipment. Music.
Romanian-Americans In Lake County, Indiana (1976-77), #12
115 interviews. Time Period: 1920s-1970s. Immigration to the United
States, marriage, family, ethnic traditions, employment, education,
religion.
Social Face of Death (1996-1997), #111
24 interviews. Time period: 1940s to present. Coping with death. Terminal
illness. Death of loved ones. Medical attitudes. Religion. Family attitudes
and responsibilities.
Social History of Spencer, Indiana (1974-1976), #092
55 interviews. Time Period: 1910s-70s. Variety of ages, but
preponderance of interviewees born near turn of the century.
History of the everyday life of a town. Education. Family life.
Religion. Local events. Town politics. Changing moral
standards. Class. Economic changes. Generational differences.
Life during the Depression. Small town vs. large town life.
Teachers. Medical care. Blacks in Spencer. Youth exodus.
Social Work (1976), #093
1 interview. Career in social work. Social work in Pennsylvania and Indiana.
Family Service Association of Monroe County.
Socialism in Indiana in the 1920s (1975-1976), #094
3 interviews. Time Period: 1920s. Mostly about Harry Oatis,
who ran for mayor on Socialist ticket in Elwood, Indiana, in 1925
and was defeated by 10 votes. Reminiscences on politics. John
Lewis. Welsh immigrants in Elwood. Government corruption. Tin
and steel industries: pensions, strikes (esp. 1909), unions.
Southern Conference for Human Welfare/Education Fund (1983), #095
5 interviews. Time Period: 1930s and Civil Rights era.
Interviewees are national figures (Virginia Durr, Shuttlesworth,
Anne Braden). Struggle for equality in the South. Formation of
SCHW/SCEF. Civil Rights work by blacks and whites. New Deal
work for civil rights. Martin Luther King. FDR and Eleanor
Roosevelt. McCarthyism.
Stones River National Battlefield Community Oral History (1999), #096
10 interviews. Time Period: 1930s-90s. Interviews with community
members in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in partnership with the National Park
Service. Family histories. Stories about visits to historic site.
Community relationships with National Park Service.
Studebaker (1984-1985), #097
50 interviews. Time Period: primarily 1938-1976. Interviewees
are workers at Studebaker at all levels, but mostly line and
other blue-collar workers. Many ethnicities and women. Work
life at Studebaker. Labor-management relations. Why Studebaker
closed down. Unions.
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Testimonios: Documenting the Lives and Faith of Latino Immigrants (2001-2002), #104
11 interviews. Immigration to the United States. Migrant workers. Life
in Indianapolis. Religion. Church's role in community life. Latino communities
in the Midwest.
Tuba-Euphonium Oral History (2000), #108
12 interviews. Time period: 1950s-2000. Instrument design, IU
School of
Music, Bill Bell, teaching techniques, playing techniques.
U.S. Foreign Relations in World War II (1975, 1978), #098
4 interviews. Time Period: 1940s. American-British relations, 1944-47.
American-Soviet relations in WWII. Foreign service, 1942-48. Roosevelt,
Stalin, Churchill, and Truman. Recognition of Israel.
Ukrainian Americans in the Midwest (1990), #099
12 interviews. Time Period: 1930s-90s. Most interviewees born
in the 1930s but a few born at the turn of the century. Early
life in the Ukraine. Emigrating to America. Maintaining
traditions in the U.S. Ukrainian religious ceremonies. Youth
organizations. Weddings. Building and maintaining communities.
Ukrainian language instruction.
Village Mothers Oral History Project (1993-1994), #100
92 interviews. Time Period: 1900s-1990s. Interviews from David Ransel's
book on three generations of Russian and Tatar women. Marriage. Abortion.
Birth control. Birthing. Child rearing. Midwives.
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Wartime Military Experiences (1992), #081
12 interviews. Time Period: World War I through Vietnam. War experiences.
U.S. Navy. Race relations. Being black in the military. Serving stateside.
West Side Community Center, Bloomington, Indiana (1985), #101
5 interviews. Time Period: 1920s-80s. Interviewees born in the
1910s. Bloomington Black community.
Whiting, Indiana: Generational Memory (1991-1993), #102
88 interviews. Time Period: 1920s-90s. Variety of ages in
interviewees. Unions. Politics and political alliances over
generations. Working for Standard Oil and other Whiting
industries. Working-class experiences. Family structure.
Discipline. Values. Ethnicity. Religious commitment and
change. Deindustrialization. Environmental and gender issues.
William E. Jenner and Indiana Politics (1971, 1973-1974), #103
18 interviews. Time Period: 1920s-1960s, with emphasis on late
1930s-early 1940s. Interviewees are mostly Republican
politicians or party functionaries. Jenner was U.S. Republican
Senator from Indiana. Opposition politics. Workings of Indiana
political "machine" in the 1930s-50s. Decline of party politics.
Conserving state's natural resources. Reminiscences about famous
politicians: Capehart, Schricker, Dewey, Willkie. Getting major
bills passed.
Women's History (1977, 1980), #106
6 interviews. Time Period: 1940s-70s. Most interviewees born
in the 1930s, one at turn of century. ERA. Women's movement in
Bloomington, 1969-76. League of Women Voters. Bloomington civic
affairs and politics, 1945-75. Tension between university and
community women. Bloomington vs. the rest of Indiana.
Writing the Saga of Coe Ridge (1976), #013
1 interview. Time Period: 1970s. William Lynwood Montell discusses oral
history research, methodology, turning oral interviews into written history, writing "The Saga of Coe Ridge".
Writings of Bruce A. Rosenberg (1976), #004
1 interview. Time Period: 1970s. Bruce Rosenberg discusses folklore
theory, folk legends, folklore research, writing "Custer and the Epic
Defeat".
