RHC/UA/53. Oral History
Record Group Term
Identifier: RHC/UA/53
The Oral History collection is comprised of nine separate oral history projects. In most cases the interviews are available for listening on the original cassettes. Many of the interviews have been transcribed, but some have only abstracts. Five series focus on NIU history: Campus Unrest at NIU; Town-Gown Relations in DeKalb; NIU Biographies; History of the NIU Foundation; and NIU Centennial Histories. The other four are: Farming and Farm Families in DeKalb County; Workers at Wurlitzer during World War II; Burlington Strike Collection [OH-7, transcripts only]; and Regional Histories.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Oral History
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RHC-UA-53-##n59
Scope and Contents
The Oral History Collection is comprised of ten separate oral history projects. Some of the oral history projects are quite large, such as Town-Gown Relations in DeKalb (OH-2, containing 43 interviews) and Farming and Farm Families in DeKalb County (OH-3, containing 34 interviews). Two collections, NIU Biographies (OH-4) and Regional Histories (OH-9), contain only one interview each, as of 2009.
In most cases the original oral history cassette interviews are available for listening. In...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1979-2008; Other: Majority of material found in 1979-2008; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1979
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
