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Selected Publications

SPOHP’s interviews, collections, and collaborations have supported a wide range of books, articles, and edited volumes that bring oral histories to broader public and scholarly audiences. The publications below reflect the program’s long-standing commitment to scholarship, public humanities, and making the voices preserved in the archive available in new forms. Together, these publications reflect the enduring scholarly and public impact of SPOHP’s interviews, collections, and collaborations. 

Books

Julian M. Pleasants and Harry A. Kersey Jr., Seminole Voices: Reflections on the Changing Society, 1970–2000 (2010)  

Julian M. Pleasants, Gator Tales: An Oral History of the University of Florida (2006)  

Julian M. Pleasants, Orange Journalism: Voices from Florida’s Newspapers (2003) 

Julian M. Pleasants, Hanging Chads: The Inside Story of the 2000 Presidential Election (2003) 

Articles and Book Chapters

Matthew F. Simmons, Anna Hamilton, Alexis Davis, William Dyer, Christina Jean Philippe, Jessica Heady, Adolfho Romero, Rebekah Anne Cordova, Deborah Hendrix, Paul Ortiz, Pryce Houck, Kevin Tang, and Sarah Moellar, “A Meeting of Two Worlds—Oral History and Linguistics: Partnerships, Perplexities, and Potentialities in Researching African American Language,” The Oral History Review 52, no. 2 (2025): 273–298  

Evangeline Giaconia, Ginessa Mahar, and Perry Collins, “Redressing Archival Harm: Ownership, Access, and Indigenous Knowledge,” The Serials Librarian 84, no. 5-8 (2023): 119-131. 

Paul Ortiz, “Oral History, Democracy, and the Power of Memory,” in Jacob U’Mofe Gordon and Paul Ortiz, eds., African American Studies: 50 Years at the University of Florida (2021) 

Jessica Taylor, “‘We’re on Fire’: Oral History and the Preservation, Commemoration, and Rebirth of Mississippi’s Civil Rights Sites,” Oral History Review 42, no. 2 (2015): 231–254 

Samuel Proctor, “The Southeastern Indian Oral History Program at the University of Florida,” in Indians of the Lower South: Past and Present (1975)  

Research Publications

Sarah Blank and Paul Ortiz, eds., “I Never Will Forget”: Memories from Mississippi Freedom Summer (2014) 

Sarah Blank and Paul Ortiz, eds., Civil Rights Attorney John Due: An Oral History Series (2014) 

Forthcoming

An Oral History of Modern Florida: Six Decades of Voices from the Sunshine State (forthcoming)