About the Institute for Oral History

 

Through dynamic, recorded interviews, oral history preserves the stories of individuals who helped create the fabric of history and whose lives, in turn, were shaped by the people, places, events, and ideas of their day. The Institute for Oral History has recorded and preserved oral histories since 1970, earning along the way a strong reputation for multidisciplinary outreach to both academic scholars and community historians by providing professional leadership, educational tools, and research opportunities.

Learn more about the Institute for Oral History from the BUIOH website.

Oral History Interviews

Since its founding in 1970, the Baylor University Institute for Oral History (BUIOH) has collected over 7,000 interviews. The Institute has created transcripts of almost all interviews in the collection, and nearly 4,500 of these transcripts are available to researchers and the public in our online collection as fully text-searchable PDFs. New transcripts of in-process projects are added monthly as work progresses.

'Sound Historian: Journal of the Texas Oral History Association'

Sound Historian: Journal of the Texas Oral History Association features articles on a broad array of topics that apply oral history methodology to scholarly research.  In each article, eyewitness testimony presents new, fresh perspectives on the events, issues, or people of the past.  In addition to exploring a variety of subjects, the articles also contribute to the discussion of the practice, theory, or application of oral history. Reviews of books that instruct in oral history methods or apply interview materials to historical research are included in Volume 2 and forward.