Stanford Historical Society oral history program interviews, 1999-2024

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Summary

Creators:
Stanford Historical Society
Extent:
16793.6 megabyte(s)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program Interviews (SC0932). Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Background

Scope and content:

The Stanford Historical Society's Oral History Program explores the institutional history of the University, with an emphasis on the transformative post-WWII period, through interviews with leading faculty, staff, alumni, trustees, and others. The project furthers the Society's mission "to foster and support the documentation, study, publication, and preservation of the history of the Leland Stanford Junior University."

Like any primary source material, oral history is not intended to present the final, verified, or complete narrative of events. It is a unique, reflective, spoken account, offered by the interviewee in response to questioning, and as such it may be deeply personal. By capturing the flavor of incidents, events, and personalities, the oral history approach provides details and viewpoints that are not often found in traditional records.

Transcripts in this collection are lightly edited by program staff and by Interviewees to correct grammar and occasional inaccuracies. Audio, however, is not edited. As a result, transcripts do not match recordings verbatim.

Arrangement:

The materials are arranged in twenty-one series: Series 1. Alumni Interviews; Series 2. Artists Interviews; Series 3. Athletics Hall of Fame Project; Series 4. Diversity Project Interviews; Series 5. Faculty and Staff Interviews; Series 6. Founding Grant Project Interviews; Series 7. Peace Corps 50th Anniversary Oral History Project; Series 8. Stanford Presidential Families Project; Series 9. Stanford Arts Initiative Project; Series 10. Athletics Oral History Project; Series 11. Trustees; Series 12. Community; Series 13. Faculty Senate; Series 14. Graduate Diversity Project; Series 15. Arts at Stanford; Series 16. Pioneering Women Panels; Series 17. Deans of the School of Humanities and Sciences Panel; Series 18. Early Chicano Faculty at Stanford; Series 19. Disability at Stanford Oral History Project; Series 20. Stanford, COVID-19, and the Crises of 2020-2021 Oral History Project; Series 21. Childcare at Stanford Oral History Project

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The materials are open for research use.

Terms of access:

All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted to Special Collections and University Archives at speccollref@stanford.edu.

Preferred citation:

Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program Interviews (SC0932). Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Location of this collection:
Stanford University Archives, Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064, US
Contact:
(650) 725-1022
specialcollections@stanford.edu
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