Feel free to click on the links below to get an idea of how oral histories may be collected and used.
Long-time faculty member and two-time San Marcos Mayor, Dr. Emmie Craddock was dedicated to preserving history. She and her History students conducted dozens of interviews with members of the community. The subjects of these interviews were often older residents, who talked about their experiences growing up in the 1910s and 1920s.
The Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative was established in 1938 with funds from the Rural Electrification Administration. Its purpose was to provide electricity to rural areas in the vicinity of Guadalupe and Gonzales counties, east of San Antonio, Texas. In 1986-1987, students in Professor Ron Brown’s oral history courses conducted a series of interviews with long-time customers, employees, and board members.
From 1999-2001, NASA partnered with History students at Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State) to conduct interviews with former employees who lived in the Central Texas area. Over the three years of the project, Texas State graduate students conducted approximately 60 interviews with NASA retirees.
Round Rock Oral History Project
- This project will explore the history of the Texas State Round Rock Campus.
Texas State Faculty Origins Collection
- This collection will provide a snapshot of Texas State Faculty and how they came into their fields.