Oral History Interviews – Series or Projects (January 2025 update)

Hyperlinked Series or Projects below will take those interested to either another webpage or a google document. For assistance with the non-hyperlinked items, contact Oral Historian Troy Reeves or call 608-890-1899. Note: If the date(s) listed along with the series or project end with ( ), those dates are when the oral histories were conducted and/or processed.

• #theRealUW
• Academic Staff Award Winners
• African American Athletes at UW
• African Studies
• Allen Centennial Gardens @ 30
• Art History @ 100
• Arboretum History
• Badger Veterans
• Black Lives Matter Movement in Madison
• Campus Literary Magazines
• Campus Governance
• Campus Planning & Building Program
• Capitol Protests 2011
• Chadbourne Residential College
• Chancellor’s Scholarship Program
• Class Reunion Projects
• Cold War University (Matt Levin Donation)
• College of Engineering
• CSCS 125 (Gaddis)
• Department of Economics
• Documenting COVID-19, including Madison Mourns (2020-2023)
• Dow 50 (1967) Stories
• Eagle Heights Project
• Ecological Restoration
• Election 2016
• English 201 class (Spring2020)
• Faculty Wives
• Feminist Theory and Music
• Folklore @ UW (2017-18)
• Ford Scholars
• Forest Products Laboratory
• Gender and Women’s Studies Class (2015)
• George L. Mosse Program in History
• History of Cartography
• History 136 Class (Spring 2020)
• History 201: Historian’s Craft FIG (First year Interest Group, Fall 2016)
• Humanists at Work
• iSchool: Who Writes Your Story Class (Fall 2017)
• Institute for Research on Poverty
• Lakeshore Nature Preserve
• LGBTQ Civil Rights Movement – Queer Wisconsin Class (Summer 2012)
• Life Sciences
• LIS 640 Student Interviews
• Madison General School of Nursing Alumni, 1905-1982
• Madison’s LGBTQ+ Community: 1960s to present
• Madison Reunion (June 2018)
• McArdle Laboratory
• Mohs, Dr. Frederic E. (2021-Present)
• OAO-2 @ 50 Story Gathering Project (2018-2019)
• Outstanding Women of Color (2022-2023)
• Printmaking
• Public History Project/Center for Campus History (2019-Present)
• Regenerative Roots
• River Food Pantry
• Robert E. Gard Oral History Project
• School of Education
• School of Music
• Shabazz High School – Northeast Senior Coalition Project
• SE Asian Oral Histories (project coordinated by Joy Block)
• Special Collections WOW, (2018, story gathering)
• Society of American Foresters (SAF)
• Sterling Hall Bombing (story gathering & oral history)
• StoryCorps – Peace Corps and Africa: 50 Years
• Student Historian in Residence (SHiR) Oral History Projects (2019-Present)
• Teaching Assistants’ Strike of 1970
• Tent Colony–Picnic Point Summer Housing (2019)
• Thai Pavilion @ 25
• University Housing
• UW-Madison and WI Community Arts History (Gard Foundation)
• UW-Madison Book Arts: An Oral History (2018-2020)
• UW System Merger
• UW System Restructuring (2018-2019)
• Vietnam Era at UW-Madison
• Wisconsin Energy Institute/Grandparents University (2019-Present)
• Wisconsin Farms Oral History Project (2016-2019)
• Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH)
• Women @ UW/Women Inspire
• Women in PE (2022-2023)
• Women in Science & Engineering
• Women’s Rowing @ 50 — story gathering & oral history (2022-2023)