One Community. Many Voices.
The Collection
With over 5,000 interviews and more than 150,000 pages of transcribed material, the SPOHP collection is one of the largest oral history archives in the South and one of the top collections in the country.
Our largest collection contains more than 900 interviews with Native Americans including Seminoles, Cherokees, and Creeks. Other major holdings include projects on African Americans in Florida, Civil Rights action in St. Augustine (1964), and the University of Florida.
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Research
The SPOHP archive is available for use by research scholars, students, journalists, genealogists, and other interested groups.
Documents may be accessed through the UF Digital Collection, as well as our archive in Pugh Hall.
If you are using any of the content from our digital collection, please make sure you reference it properly. You can click on the book to the right to see information regarding citing the SPOHP collection!
The Collection Contents
The following is a small sample of the projects in our vast collection:
- Florida politicians
- University of Florida Athletics
- Florida water management
- Auto racing
- World War II, Korean, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans
- African Americans in the Korean War
- The citrus industry
- Florida “Crackers”
- Civilian Conservation Corps
- History of the University of Florida
- UF Law School
- UF Medical School
- UF College of Nursing
- Women’s Activism in Gainesville
- The Panama Canal Zone
- Conversations with rural women from across America (178)
- Famous Floridians, such as Walter L. "Red" Barber, sports announcer; Dr. Robert Cade, inventor of Gatorade; former governors Farris Bryant, LeRoy Collins, and Bob Graham (and U.S. senator); and former University of Florida presidents.
SPOHP also houses sound archives, which include University of Florida-related speeches; videotapes of television interviews with Dean Rusk, William C. Westmoreland, and George McGovern; Native American slides and photographs; and 350 recordings of music, including concerts, folk music, and Native American chants.
Catalog of Collections 2004
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