Oral History Collections

Audio and/or transcripts of oral history interviews held by Portland State University Library Special Collections and University Archives:

• Carole Pope Oral History Project
  Interviews feature individuals directly impacted by Pope and her program, Our New Beginnings (1980-1992), a Portland-based sentencing alternative for women embroiled in the criminal justice system. Interviews are in progress, and when completed, this collection will compliment the collection of Carole Pope Papers.

• Ernie Bonner Oral History Collection
  Eighty oral histories, interviews, and speeches completed or collected by Ernie Bonner for the Planning Portland in the Seventies project.

• Center for the Moving Image Oral History Project
  Oral histories and images from Heather O. Petrocelli’s Center for the Moving Image Oral History Project and selected films produced by CMI and its students.

• Portland State University Oral Histories
  Interviews with faculty, staff and administrators capturing the first-person insight of those instrumental to the development and success of Portland State.
  
  • Videos
  • Other Interviews

• Sustainability History Project
  Interviews conducted by Portland State University senior capstone students with area businesses and institutions that are implementing sustainability strategies. The range of topics includes education, agriculture, food supply, housing, green building, reuse, recycling, landscaping, forestry, reclamation, green burial, transportation, and policy making.

• The Black United Front Oral History Project
  Transcripts of interviews with African American activists in Portland who led or supported the work of the Black United Front. The interviews were conducted by PSU public history students during 2008 and 2010.

• People and the Land: An Oral History of Oregon’s Statewide Land Use Planning Program
  “People and the Land” is a collaboration between the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development and Portland State University. The goal of this project is to document and preserve a record of Oregon’s unique land use program through personal oral histories.