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Ohst. Oral History Collections

 Topic Guide
Identifier: Ohst
This classification groups together Oral History Collections.

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Lest We Forget Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-396
Abstract Lest We Forget was a film and audio project that captured personal and historical reflections and remembrances of people with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities, their families, their advocates, and their communities during the decades of statewide institutionalization and subsequent de-institutionalization in Ohio. The goals of the project were to collect oral, video, and written histories of the personal stories of people with mental retardation who lived in a state...
Dates: 1953 - 2008; Majority of material found within 2003 - 2007

Cold War Aerospace Technology Oral History Project Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-431
Abstract

The Cold War Aerospace Technology Oral History Project primarily contains oral histories gathered from several workers in the field of Aerospace Technology during the Cold War (1946-1992). With few exceptions, the interviewees were all engineers and worked at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on projects ranging from stealth and fly-by-wire technology to jet propulsion and foreign intelligence gathering, etc.

Dates: 1936-2008

1913 Dayton Flood Survivors Oral Histories

 Collection
Identifier: MS-296
Abstract

The1913 Flood Survivors Oral Histories is a collection of video oral history interviews with survivors of the 1913 Dayton Flood. The videos were made in the 1990s and the participants tell their stories of survival as children during the flood.

Dates: 1995 - 1996

Occupy Dayton Oral History Project

 Collection
Identifier: MS-499
Abstract The Occupy Dayton Oral History Project was a graduate capstone project initiated and completed by Wright State graduate student in history, Kyle Pitzer. Mr. Pitzer interviewed six participants and leaders of the Dayton manifestation of the Occupy Wall Street movement which began in New York City in late summer 2011. These demonstrations soon spread throughout the country with Dayton holding its first protest in early October, 2011. Three years later from January to May of 2014, Kyle Pitzer...
Dates: 2014

Emmanuel Ringelblum Collection of Oral History Memoirs of the Holocaust (MS-215)

 Collection
Identifier: MS-215
Abstract

Collection consists of audio interviews with 35 Dayton-area individuals who survived, or were impacted by, the Nazi Holocaust; audio and video recordings of lectures related to the Holocaust; and video programs produced from original interviews specifically for classroom use to supplement Holocaust curriculum.

Dates: 1978 - 1995

Survivors of the Holocaust Oral History Project Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-239
Abstract

The Survivors of the Holocaust Oral History Project was established in 1977 as a joint effort by Antioch College and Wright State University. Its purpose was to interview and preserve stories of survivors of the Nazi Holocaust who settled in the Dayton, Ohio, area. The records consist of meeting minutes, correspondence, lists of potential interviewees, clippings, and publicity. The Project produced the Emmanuel Ringelblum Collection of Oral History Memoirs of the Holocaust.

Dates: 1977-1985

Catholic Social Services of the Miami Valley, Dayton Refugee Oral Histories (SC-349)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-349
Abstract

The collection documents the stories of six (6) local Dayton area refugees who originated from Congo, Iraq, Burundi, and Ethiopia. It contains audio oral histories, transcripts, and project documentation.

Dates: 2019

Jim Foreman Dayton Music Scene Collection (MS-704)

 Collection
Identifier: MS-704
Abstract

The collection consists of video interviews that Jim Foreman conducted with Dayton music personas in the 1980s.

Dates: circa 1980 - circa 1989

Wright State University Student Oral Histories, 2017 (SC-325)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-325
Abstract

The collection consists of video oral history interviews conducted with Wright State University students, primarily graduate students in the Public History concentration, as part of a History 7700: Local History course in Fall 2017. Students were asked a standard series of questions on topics such as why they chose Wright State University and what life has been like as a Wright State student. Each interview averages about 4.5 minutes in length.

Dates: 2017 Oct. 25-26; Modified: Videos, transcripts, and redacted release forms edited in 2020

Leo Lucas Oral History Interview (SC-262)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-262
Abstract

The collection consists of an oral history interview audio recording with Leo Lucas, a member of the Dayton City School Board during the battle over busing students for desegregation. The interview was conducted in the summer of 1975 by high school student Mark Benbow.

Dates: 1975