: ' Oral History'

Digital Access: African American Farmers

The Nunn Center announces online digital access to the first interviews from our African American Farmers Project, a project conducted in 1991-1992.  This powerful oral history project features interviews documenting experiences of African American farmers and their [...]

MLB’s Bobby Thompson Remembers the “Shot Heard ‘Round the World”

Before moving to San Francisco, Major League Baseball’s Giants were in New York. Thanks to retired UK archivist and scholar Bill Marshall who wrote Baseball’s Pivotal Era, 1945-1951, the Louie B.  Nunn Center for Oral History [...]

Nunn Center focuses on Digital Access to Public Policy Interivews

Over the next 9 months,  the Nunn Center and the University of Kentucky Libraries have committed to processing and making publicly available over 300 interviews pertaining to politics and public policy.  Collections chosen as part of [...]

Saving Stories Features Ezell Blair, Jr: Remembering the Greensboro Sit-Ins

This episode of Saving Stories reflects on a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement documented in a powerful oral history interview archived at the Nunn Center. This episode features an oral history interview with Ezell [...]