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UPCOMING PUBLIC PROGRAMS
-Remembering With Honor
Saturday, May 19, 2012
10am at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center
To access the press release, please click here.
SAVE THE DATE!
-Hear some of the earliest Holocaust survivor interviews ever conducted: An Evening with Dr. Alan Rosen.
February 12, 2013
7pm at Pugh Hall
For more information click here.
COMMEMORATING VETERAN'S HISTORIES
- Gainesville Vietnam War Veterans interviews now featured on Library of Congress Veterans' History Project!
- Check out our expansive collection of Veterans' oral histories here.
NEWLY PUBLISHED
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Larry Eugene Rivers, Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth Century Florida New book from SPOHP's 2009 Julian Pleasants Award winner, Derrick White. |
SPOHP IN THE NEWS
- Gainesville Sun coverage of WWII veteran who helped liberate Jews from the Nazis, Frank Towers, here.
Listen to SPOHP's interview with Frank Towers about his experience, here.
- Gainesville Sun coverage of Peter Wood's, "Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer's Civil War" here.
-SPOHP Sponsors National Farm Worker Awareness Week, here.
-Gainesville Sun coverage of the SPOHP co-sponsored 4th annual Claronelle Smith Griffin Distinguished Speaker Series Banquet, featuring Dr. Larry Rivers, here.
-Melinda Wiggins, the executive director of Student Action with Farm Workers was recently
honored by President Obama. Here.
To see our news archive, click here.
WELCOME!
Welcome to the online home of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida!
With over 5,000 interviews and counting, SPOHP is one of the largest and most diverse oral history repositories in the United States. We invite you to explore this website where you may watch and listen to stories of remarkable people who experienced many of the great turning
points of modern history.
For a welcome from director Paul Ortiz click here.
SUMMER B ORAL HISTORY SEMINAR NOW AVAILABLE!
Oral History: Theory and Practice
HIS 4944, Section 4E68 (Summer B)
Students will learn how to design an oral history project, conduct oral history interviews, process interviews, evaluate and interpret oral history evidence, assess its significance in relation to written archival records, and address legal and ethical issues of concern to oral historians.
This course will also explore how oral history research can be presented and used in museum exhibits, plays, documentary films, web-based programs, and classroom projects. Readings, written assignments, class discussions, fieldwork, and final projects are designed with these goals in mind.
THE LIFE OF AN AGRICULTURAL WORKER IN FLORIDA
Nely Rodriguez of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, discusses the life of an agricultural worker in Florida. Based in Immokalee, Florida,
CIW was the recipient of the 2007 Anti-Slavery Award, which is given by the Anti-Slavery International, the world's oldest international human rights organization.
SPOHP has been a co-sponsor of National Farm Worker Awareness Week, since 2010.
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