The African American History Project (AAHP) is an archive of over 600+ oral history interviews conducted with African Americans throughout Alachua County, wider Florida, and the American South. The collection includes memories of many […]
The Asian American History Project (ASAH) is an archive of Oral History interviews conducted with Asian Americans within the University of Florida, and throughout the greater South. The collection aims […]
The SPOHP’s Challenging Racism at UF public program series highlights stories of students, community organizers, faculty, and others who have been on the front lines of the effort to create a more just and welcoming world.
(Pictured: People gather after the “OverKome! Creating Pathways for Collective Community-Led Development” event.)
The Florida Queer History Project, founded in June 2016, is a growing archive of oral histories dedicated to highlighting the queer experience throughout the last century. The project aims to […]
The Joel Buchanan Archive of African American Oral History contains over 700 oral history interviews with African American elders throughout Florida and the wider Gulf South. These interviews and the overall projects […]
The Latinx Diaspora in the Americas Project, founded in 2014, is a growing, award-winning archive of 100+ oral histories dedicated to creating space for Latina/os to share their historical experiences related to […]
The Machen Florida Opportunity Scholars Program (MFOS) is a full grant and scholarship package that helps first-generation, low-income undergraduate students who are residents of Florida to earn a bachelor’s degree […]
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The Mississippi Freedom Project (MFP) is an award-winning archive of 200+ oral history interviews conducted with veterans of the civil rights movement and notable residents of the Mississippi Delta. The […]
Native American history initiatives at SPOHP have focused on tribal history in the Southeast, archiving hundreds of interviews with the Catawba, Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Lumbee, Seminole, and Pamunkey since 1967. […]
In March of 2021, the coronavirus pandemic changed all of our lives. Samuel Proctor Oral History Program quickly adapted to continue documenting oral histories for all projects. As the lockdowns […]
Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPOHP), UF Department of Linguistics, and George A. Smathers Libraries are proud to announce the establishment of an NEH-funded collaborative project entitled, Reanimating African American Oral […]
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The Tidewater Main Street Project (TMP) is dedicated to documenting the traditions, folklore, and history of the rural communities in the tidewater region of Virginia […]
The Network to Freedom Underground Railroad Oral History Project (URP) gives voice to one of America’s most pivotal and under-documented social movements: the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad conducted people […]
The Veterans History Project, founded in 2000, is a collection of 300+ oral history interviews with veterans from military conflicts from the Civil War to present day in partnership with […]
The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPOHP) is proud to announce the establishment of the White Anti-Racist Activism Digital History Project. The White Anti-Racist Activism Digital History Project consists of […]
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