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Fall 2021 Open House

Pugh Hall Ocora Pugh Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

SPOHP is excited to welcome you to our Fall 2021 Open House! Join us in-person or virtually on Thursday, September 2nd at 5:00 PM to learn more about our many oral history projects and how you can get involved. Hope to see you there!

MFOS at 15 Years

A documentary of the Machen Florida Opportunity Scholars Program told through 60 oral history interviews.

Samuel Proctor Oral History Program Spring 2022 Open House

Pugh Hall Ocora Pugh Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPOHP) is hosting its Spring 2022 Open House. We will be meeting in Pugh Hall with food, giveaways and information about our program.

African American History Meets AI In The 21st Century Classroom

Virtual

Faculty and student panelists will discuss how they are utilizing artificial intelligence to create instructional lesson plans from SPOHP’s UF’s Joel Buchanan African American Oral History Archive to make stories from the archive more accessible to scholars and K-12 students.

Easy Website Construction for Scholars

Zoom

Did you know that scholars can build attractive, informative websites with no prior experience in coding or website development? Janelle Lyons will share her process of creating a website with Omeka S, a tool provided by the Libraries’ UFLib Domains service.

New Book Release: Discovering A. S. J. Allen

A. Quinn Jones Museum

The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program proudly supports Mr. Alonzo Felder's new book release, Discovering A.S.J. Allen. Join us on Monday, May 23 at 7 pm for Mr. Felder's book presentation hosted by the A. Quinn Jones Museum.

Dr. Kevin Tang Discusses The Reanimating African American Oral Histories Of The Gulf South Project

Dr. Kevin Tang: "In this talk, I will introduce the Reanimating African American Oral Histories of the Gulf South project started in 2021, supported by the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH), educators and other community members. I will focus on reporting our computational efforts in making the voices and histories of African Americans who reside in the Gulf South accessible." View Recording of Live Stream