Oral History Resources

Approximately 700 interviews on analog audiocassettes recorded during the 1977 National Women’s Conference in Houston, Texas and the earlier state conference in Columbia, South Carolina

An online 3-week service learning course for USC’s Honors College that documents the perspectives and experiences of those impacted in a variety of ways by the global pandemic

Seventeen interviews in this collection explore civic engagement and the 2020 election in South Carolina, as part of coursework in the Honors College

The thirty-six interviewees in this collection describe community, family, educational experiences, and race relations in Winnsboro, Ridgeway, Simpson and surrounding areas of Fairfield County, South Carolina

The oral history interviews in this collection seek to tell the story of Lt. Col. James H. Davis and his brother, John Sherwood Davis, by sharing recollections and experiences of those who knew or served with them

Thirty-four oral history interviews, created between 2016 and 2018, begin to tell the living history of a Jewish family and the steel business they developed, and the lives of those they employed, during its eighty years of operation in Columbia, South Carolina (1923-2003)

Dozens of hours of recorded letters. Loretta Dunbar served in the Peace Corps in West Africa (specifically Nigeria and Ghana) from 1971-1979

Includes 36 interviews conducted with past students of the Public History Program and former faculty directors

Shivar Spring Company was a mineral water and flavored beverage company operating in Shelton, Fairfield County, South Carolina, ca. 1907 to 1957

This collection highlights the lives and experiences of veterans serving in all branches of the service living in South Carolina

More than 200 oral history interviews and growing, on a variety of topics related to South Carolina history

The oral histories in this collection humanize the experience of the flood, as residents confront loss and destruction of homes and businesses, and find support and resilience within their communities

African-American education in South Carolina during segregation: interviews primarily focus on Rosenwald schools, Allen University and sports at Sims High School in Union County, South Carolina

Thirty-five oral history interviews with former students and teachers who recall their experiences during the high school’s operating years (1932-1966) on the campus of the University of South Carolina

This collection documents the recollections of those with knowledge of the 1947 lynching of African American cab driver Willie Earle, and consists of 41 oral history interviews and accompanying supplementary materials

The William Savage oral history collection documents a small part of the institutional history of the University of South Carolina through oral history interviews with forty former faculty and staff members