Calendar: Events at the SOHP
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Spoken Memories: A Video Intro to the SOHP
This fifteen-minute video describes the SOHP and its history (streamed in Real Player format).


Sample the SOHP Archives
Hear interviews with Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Orval Faubus, John Hope Franklin, Eva Clayton, and more.


Interview of the Month
Mr. Angus Thompson discusses race and school desegregation in Robeson County, NC in an interview with Malinda Maynor.


Using This Site
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  Current Headlines

Mellon Provides Major Support for Long Civil Rights Movement Initiative

SOHP/UNC Library Debut Southern Oral History Digital Database

New Home for Southern Oral History Program

Newly available online guide to SOHP Collection

SOHP Welcomes New Personnel



Mellon Foundation Provides Major Support for Joint Project
An historic $937,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York marks an important milestone for Southern Oral History Program’s ongoing Long Civil Rights Movement initiative. The three-year grant—“Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement”—is a collaborative effort by SOHP, UNC Press, the Center for Civil Rights in the School of Law and UNC library that allows the SOHP to join its partners in exploring new ways of producing and disseminating Civil Rights Movement-related scholarship through print and digital media. [more]    return to top
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SOHP and UNC Library Debut Digital Database
With the assistance of a $505,232 grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the SOHP and the UNC Library are nearing completion of a digitization and publication project that provides unprecedented online access to more than 500 oral history interviews conducted by the SOHP over the past thirty years. With this project, "Oral Histories of the American South," users are already able to search more than 400 interviews by theme, access them at the point of their interest, and, with a few clicks of the mouse, hear the spoken word, read the related transcript text, and learn from additional historical commentary. We invite you to visit the database, and to send us your thoughts and feedback as the project enters its final phase. [more]    return to top

SOHP Moves to New Campus Home
the James Lee Love House, future home of SOHP In the spring of 2007 the SOHP relocated from its longtime quarters in Hamilton Hall to the Love House and Hutchins Forum, which now serves as the home of UNC's Center for the Study of the American South, of which the SOHP is a component program. [more]
Online Guide to SOHP Collection Debuts
The three thousand-plus interviews in the Southern Oral History Program Collection can now be accessed via an online finding aid with search capabilities. Interested in searching by subject, interviewee occupation, or ethnicity? These and other functions in the new system make locating relevant Collection interviews easier than ever. [more]    return to top



 





 




The Southern Oral History Program
Center for the Study of the American South
Love House and Hutchins Forum
410 East Franklin St., CB# 9127, UNC-CH
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-9127
(919) 962-0455
info@sohp.org