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Tidewater Main Street Project (TMP)

            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 through student fieldwork and community engagement. Since 2014, SPOHP has been leading student fieldwork trips to Virginia to build upon its 200+ oral history collection. […]

Network to Freedom Underground Railroad Project

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 seeking freedom from slavery to safety along a secret network, until at least the end of the Civil War. A partnership between SPOHP and the […]

Veterans History Project

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 American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. American Women And Military Service Archival Collections Oral history interview records, including interview logs and select audio, are […]

White Anti-Racist Activism Digital History Project

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 interviews and artifacts donated by individuals who participated in social justice movements over the past 40 years in states of the Gulf South and present […]

Welcome to the Ottoman Greeks of the U.S. Digital History Project

The Ottoman Greeks of the United States project (OGUS) is a multifaceted endeavor to preserve and promote the history of immigrants from the Ottoman Empire to the United States. The OGUS project focuses on the chronological period of 1904 – 1924 in order to illuminate the peak in immigration from specific regions of the Ottoman […]

Art of Aging

  Since its inception, the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program has been an ally and resource for older persons, from its home base at UF to the far corners of the globe. Not only does SPOHP provide narrators the adequate time and space, in a world so full of speed and sound bites, to tell […]