For the UNT Multicultural Center Oral History Project. Former director of the UNT Multicultural Center. Career as a university administrator. Perspectives on student success and support initiatives at UNT.
For the UNT Multicultural Center Oral History Project. Former director of the UNT Multicultural Center. Career as a university administrator. Perspectives on student success and support initiatives at UNT.
For the UNT Multicultural Center Oral History Project. Former director of the UNT Multicultural Center. Career as a university administrator. Perspectives on student success and support initiatives at UNT.
Pastor at Valley View Missionary Baptist Church, Abilene, Texas. Former NAACP Chapter president. Founder of Interested Citizen of Abilene North (ICAN). Director of Curtis House Cultural Center. Childhood in Abilene; education at Carter G. Woodson…
For the Origins of Juneteenth Oral History Project. Member of National Juneteenth Observance Foundation for 18 years, mentored by founder, Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr. M.D. Currently Vice Chair. National…
For the Denton County Historical Commission. Ancestry of the Williams family, Denton County history.
Kimble, Betty. The Bolivar Oral History Project. Through her paternal line, Kimble is the great granddaughter of blacksmith and freedman Thomas Cook Sr. and his wife, Lethia Perry. Cook’s blacksmith shop was the focus of an archeological…
For the Women Veterans Oral History Project. WASP pilot and World War II veteran.
For the South Asians in North Texas Oral History Project. Past president of the Hindu Temple Society of North Texas and Indian immigrant in the United States. Experiences with racism and discrimination during the Civil Rights Era in the…
For the DFW Immigration Oral History Project. Experiences of Habashy, an immigrant from Egypt who currently lives in Allen, Texas. We discuss her childhood living in a small village, her career in education in Egypt and in the U.S., along with…
For the South Asians in North Texas Project. Pioneer of Indian classical dance in DFW and co-founder of the Indian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Immigration experience from India to the DFW region. Founding of the Arathi School of Dance as the…
Archeologist, United States Department of Transportation Cultural Resources Division, Office of Environmental Program Management. Background and interest in becoming an archeologist. Work for the USDOT and experiences on excavations nationally…
DFW-area baker and small business owner. History of the Bread Diary Company; relationship with food and how it interacts with her heritage, her experiences within farmers markets; interactions with customers and other…
Information Science professor and refugee from Bosnia to the U.S. Family’s experiences as refugees from the Bosnian War to the United States as she fled from her birthplace of Bosnia to Croatia, and then eventually to the U.S.; memories of her…
UNT alumnus and Music Director of the Grand Ole Opry. Discussion of the tic tac bass style, including its foundations with Ray Price’s band, guitarist Harold Bradley’s innovations in the early 1960s, the differences between tic tac bass and…
In this oral history interview, retired educator Mary Ann Finley recounts her decades-long career teaching in public and private schools across Texas from the early 1970s to her retirement in 1992. Motivated by a desire to help her children avoid…
Discussion with Sydney Reece regarding her experience in the mental health industry. The conversation includes her journey into the field, the impacts of a global pandemic on the practice, and the lasting effects of that event on the industry and…
Interview with husband and wife Thomas and Achukutty Tharayil, Malayali immigrants to the United States from the state of Kerala in India. Both describe their upbringing in the towns of Kaipuzha and Ranni and their educational choices that led to…
Richard Mueller discusses his early life and childhood as the son of sharecroppers in rural Spaulding, Nebraska, during the Great Depression and World War II years. He discusses his education in Nebraska as well as the year and a half he spent in…
Cook discusses his service in the United States Marine Corps during the Gulf War in 1990 and Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Recounts his reason for joining the Marine Corps; overall service record; deployment to the Middle East; time in the…
Associate Professor at the University of North Texas. Kennan discusses her academic and professional journey in hospitality, food safety, and education. She reflects on growing up on a farm in Pottsboro, Texas, where early experiences with…
Bookseller discusses the creation of pop-up bookshop The Bohemian Bookstore. Logistics of starting a new bookshop and current state of the book-selling industry; community of booksellers; literary recommendations.
Vietnamese-American immigrant and entrepreneur based in Dallas, Texas. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Ngo and his family fled postwar Vietnam in 1979, surviving a perilous journey by sea and nearly a year in a refugee camp in the Philippines before…