Oral Histories

Many oral histories have been digitized and made available online via Aviary, which provides full-text searching and syncing of captions with media. To help facilitate browsing of our oral history collections, below is a listing by subject. Click on links to explore finding aids or links to digital content.

• Rex Beresford [RS 9/11/56]
• Norman E. Borlaug [MS0467]
• Adrian L. Bowers [MS0072]
• Earl N. Bressman [RS 9/9/53]
• Wesley Fisher Buchele [RS 9/7/52]
• George Washington Carver [RS 21/7/2]
• John Chrystal [MS0422]
• Rex B. Conn [RS 21/7/38]
• J. W. Coverdale (American Farm Bureau) [MS0157]
• A. T. Erwin [RS 9/16/16]
• C. J. Gauger re: 4-H [RS 16/3/63]
• Iowa Prairie Restoration [MS0712]
• ISU College of Veterinary Medicine Oral Histories [RS 14/1]
• Joseph Grant Knapp [MS0508]
• Martin L. Mosher [RS 16/3/55]
• William Gordon Murray [RS 13/9/15]
• National Extension Homemakers Council [MS0288]
• W. Robert Parks Interview re: 4-H [RS 16/3/7]
• Joseph C. Reasoner [MS0182]
• Roy Vernon Scott [MS0361]
• Soil Conservation Service [MS0198]
• Paul C. Taff [RS 16/3/56]
• Voices from the Land [MS0638]

• Betty Toman [RS 10/7/51]
• ISU Lecture Series [RS 8/6/53]

• Frank Brean Oral History re: Logging [RS 21/7/151]
• Arthur B. Church [RS 21/7/31]
• COVID-19 Stories [RS 00/11/09]
• Marion Gunderson Family Oral Histories [RS 21/8/11]
• Bernard Mahler Timberg Oral Histories [RS 21/7/215]
• Iowa Local History Collections [MS0080]
• Morrill Hall Oral History Project [RS 0/11/11]
• Vandervelde Family [RS 21/8/6]
• VEISHA Oral History Project [RS0/17/9]

• Barbara Ellen Forker [RS 10/7/13]
• Frederick D. Patterson [RS 21/7/19]
• Dorothy Schwieder Papers [RS 13/12/54]
• Warren Allen Smith [MS0178]
• Voices in Color [RS 00/17/05]
• Women's and Gender Studies Program Records [RS 13/29]
• Women in Chemistry [MS0650]
• Women in Science and Engineering [MS0379]

• Iowa Women Legislators Project [MS0257]
• Henry A. Wallace [RS 21/7/5]
• Women in Political Office as Agents of Change [RS 12/1/15]

• Ames Laboratory Oral Histories [RS 17/1/5] 
• Mary E. Atherly Oral Histories re: Farm House and Knoll [RS 5/8/51]
• Department of Chemistry Oral Histories [RS 13/6]
• Department of Mathematics Oral History Project [RS 13/14/3]
• Curtiss Wright Cadettes Oral Histories [RS 13/16]
• ISU Lecture Series [RS 8/6/53]
• ISU Library Oral Histories [RS 25/4] 
• Robert William Orr [RS 25/1/20]
• W. Robert Parks [RS 2/11/2]
• Neva Maurine Petersen [RS 26/2/56]
• Ian Ringgenberg Oral Histories [RS 21/7/179]
• Dorothy Schwieder Oral Histories [RS 13/12/54]
• Sesquicentennial Oral History Project [RS 0/11/7]
• Jack Trice [RS 21/7/23]
• Vietnam War Political Demonstrations at ISU [RS 0/12/1]
• Voices in Color [RS 00/17/05]

• Interviews with WWII Veterans [RS 13/16/5]

• John Vincent Atanasoff [RS 13/20/51]
• Mark J. Cardillo [RS 13/6/57]
• John F. Carlson Lectures [RS 13/20/4]
• Henry Gilman [RS 13/6/52]
• Raymond Allen Packer [RS 14/6/11]
• Lois Hattery Tiffany [RS 13/5/20]
• Women in Chemistry [MS0650] 
• Women in Science and Engineering Oral History Collection [MS0379]