updated Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Oral History Projects Available at the Idaho Public Archives & Research Library

A project is a cluster of interviews about a particular topic, or several interviews donated to the Idaho Oral History Center as a group. Individual interviews have been listed under the category “Life Histories.” For descriptions of projects and lists of narrators, click on the links below.

African-Americans in Southeast Idaho (NAACP)

Albion State Normal School

American Falls/Power County Certified Local Governments

Basque Boardinghouses

Boise High School/Boise in the 1930s and 1940s

Boise Police Department

Boise River

Boise State University Nursing Department

Buhl Dairy Barns

Bureau of Land Management in Idaho

Caribou County Certified Local Government

Centerville Townsite Archaeological Excavation

Century Citizens

Chinese in Idaho

Civilian Conservation Corp

Conservation Movement in Idaho

Czechoslovakian Culture in the Buhl-Castleford Area

Eagle High School (Mrs. Chumbley’s class) Veterans History

Eagle High School (Mr. Corey’s class) Veterans History

Early TV Broadcasting in Boise

Filer High School (Forster)/Veterans History

Fort Boise Medical Complex

Former Guards at the Old Pen

Fruit Industry in Emmett Valley

German Prisoners of War in Idaho

Gibbonsville

Gospel Coach

Gowen Field and Boise during World War II

Guild of Idaho Storytellers/War Veterans

Hailey Centennial

Hispanic Oral History

Hunt Relocation Camp

Idaho Bicentennial Commission

Idaho City Sites Survey

Idaho County Mining Legacy

Idaho Educational Public Broadcasting System, History of Idaho

Idaho Historical Auxiliary

Idaho National Guard and the Global War on Terror

Idaho State Capitol

Idaho Supreme Court Justices

Italians in Idaho

Latino Experience in Idaho

Lava Rock Buildings

Lee Street (Boise)

Leonard and Nock Families Military History

Lewiston Site Survey

Life Histories

Lower Gibbonsville

Melba

Mexican American Experience in Idaho

Mom & Pop Stores

Montour

Motion Picture Industry in Idaho

Movie Theaters

North Idaho College Oral History

Old Penitentiary

Owyhee County Ranching

Owyhee County Schools

Peace Rock Analysis Area (Garden Valley)

Priest Lake Area

Prop One (1994)

R. Holmes Donation, Veterans History

Recreational Development of Idaho's Backcountry

Saddlemaking in Idaho

Salmon National Forest

Siberia (Old Idaho Penitentiary)

Schubert Theater (Gooding, Idaho)

Smokejumping/Forest Fire Fighting in Idaho

Steamboat Jean

Teton Dam Disaster

Teton Pioneers

Veterans History

Veterans Stand Down, Boise, September 20, 2003

Vietnam War Experiences

Voices from the Past--Upper Snake River Valley Historical Society

Washington County

Weiser Certified Local Government Grant

Women and Political Activism in Idaho, 1945-1980

Women in Wilderness

Women in WWII/Veterans History

World War II GI Homesteaders in Minidoka County

Yankee Fork Gold Dredge

Who We Are and What We Do: Idaho Oral History Center

Listen to Interviews and Read Transcripts

Do It Yourself!

Contact the Idaho Oral History Center

Links to Other Oral History Sites