Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History
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The Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History[3] at the University of Kentucky actively collects oral history interviews concentrating on 20th and 21st century Kentucky history, and maintains a collection of over 7,000 interviews made up of over 100 projects. The Center's emphasis has been on political, Appalachian, agricultural, athletic and veterans' history. The Nunn Center is part of the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections and Digital Programs division.
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[edit] Nunn Center History
The oral history program at the University of Kentucky Libraries began in 1973 by oral historian Terry Birdwhistell. The program was directed by Birdwhistell, Ed.D. from 1974 until 2005,[1] followed by Jeffrey Suchanek. The Center is currently directed by Doug Boyd, Ph.D. who was named the director of the Nunn Center in January 2008.[2] The Center is named after former Kentucky Governor Louie B. Nunn. Major projects have included the Family Farm Project, the Colonel Arthur L. Kelly Veterans Oral History Project, oral history projects on University of Kentucky history, African American history in Kentucky[3], Kentucky writers, Kentucky's medical history, the history of professional baseball, as well as more recent project featuring the Horse Industry in Kentucky, as well as on the Kentucky General Assembly.
[edit] The Collection
The Nunn Center contains over 7,000 interviews featuring a variety of individuals and projects. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History has aggressively undertaken efforts to digitize its collection[4] and in 2008 launched its Online Oral History Projects Initiative, to offer searchable, full text transcripts online, linking the searchable text to comparable moments in the audio or video, also in an online context.
FEATURED PROJECTS
- Alben Barkley
- Black Church in Kentucky
- Blacks in Kentucky
- Blacks in Lexington
- Edward T. Breathitt
- A.B. "Happy" Chandler
- Christian Appalachian Project
- Earle C. Clements
- Bert T. Combs
- John Sherman Cooper
- Country Doctors and Nurses
- Harry Caudill
- Horse Industry in Kentucky
- Family and Gender in the Coal Community
- Wendell H. Ford
- Frontier Nursing Service
- History of Broadcasting in Kentucky
- History of Education in Kentucky
- History of Medicine in Fayette County, Kentucky
- Walter D. Huddleston
- Immigrants in Coal Communities
- Interscholastic Athletics in Kentucky
- Col. Arthur L. Kelly American Veterans Project
- Veterans of World War Two
- Veterans of the Korean War
- Veterans of the Vietnam War
- Kentucky Coal Operators
- Kentucky Conservationists
- Kentucky Family Farm
- African American Farmers
- Family Farm Project
- Tobacco Production Technology and Policy
- Kentucky Folk Art
- Kentucky Legislature
- Kentucky Writers
- Thruston B. Morton
- John Jacob Niles
- Louie B. Nunn
- Peace Corps
- John Ed Pearce
- Politics in Lexington, Kentucky
- Edward F. Prichard
- Race Relations in Owensboro-Daviess County, Kentucky, 1930-1970
- Stanley F. Reed
- Roving Pickets in the Coal Fields
- Cora Wilson Stewart
- University of Kentucky Medical Center
- Urban Appalachian Women in Cincinnati, Ohio
- Fred M. Vinson
- War on Poverty
- Robert Penn Warren
- Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Project [4]
- Lawrence W. Wetherby
- Charles T. Wethington Alumni/Faculty Project
[edit] External links
- Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History
- University of Kentucky Libraries
- Curiosities and Wonders: News and interesting items from the University of Kentucky Archives and the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History
[edit] References
- ^ The University of Kentucky College of Education Alumni Hall of Fame. Accessed November 22, 2008.
- ^ The Kentucky Archivist, Spring 2008[1]
- ^ Wright, George C. "Oral History and the Search for the Black Past in Kentucky" The Oral History Review, Vol. 10, (1982), pp. 73-91
- ^ Weig, Eric, and Kopana Terry and Kathryn Lybarger. "Large Scale Digitization of Oral History: A Case Study", D-Lib Magazine, May/June 2007, Volume 13 Number 5/6.[2]
