Oral histories

Abstract

This collection contains four student reports written for history courses taught by Professor Edwin B. Bronner.

Abstract Charles Eugene Fager is a Quaker writer, publisher, educator, and activist. Born in 1942, "Chuck" Fager graduated from Colorado State University and attended Harvard Divinity School. After working for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Selma, Alabama, he performed Vietnam CO alternative service at Friends World College in 1966. He left FWC the following year, devoting his time to writing and freelance work. In the mid 1980s Fager started Kimo Press, a small publishing operation...

Scope and Contents

This collection includes eight oral history interviews with Jewish alumnae/i conducted by Caitlin Haskett (class of 2020) during a fellowship project, "Mid Century Jewish Mawrtyrs: A Collection of Oral Histories," through the Pensby Center between June and July 2019. Includes audio files, release forms, interviewer notes, and audio transcription.

Scope and Contents

Records of Langley Hill Monthly Meeting, which include paper and electronic records (which include those digitized by LHFM from paper and those that were born digital). LHFM has historically combined all of its records into a single annual file, arranged chronologically, which includes all of the meeting for business records along with related correspondence and newsletters. Some records donated by Yearly Meeting Office.

Scope and Contents The Oral History Project, part of the Tercentenary Committee, includes a July 1992 overview of participants deposited with NYYM by Nancy Sorel. That participants list includes well over 100 names, but the Friends Historical Library received approximately 80 transcripts and 40 audiocassettes. It is not clear from the files if all 120+ participants were interviewed.The list of transcripts is below; names with an asterisk include an audiocassette recording. An item-level accounting...

Abstract

Audio cassettes and some transcripts of interviews with 55 Quakers, chiefly born in Chester County between 1889-1910. Interviews contain largely autobiographical data, as well as information about Quaker life and Chester County in general.

Abstract

The collection consists of oral history interviews conducted with more than 50 current and former Swarthmore College faculty, staff, and students, conducted by Regina Smith Oboler from 1982-1983.

Scope and Contents Records of Valley Monthly Meeting, from 1820s to present. Records include business minutes from 1936-2018 (including digital minutes); property records related to the land, meetinghouse, and burial ground, including the early 19th century site survey; some minimal membership information from the 1980s and 1990s, several member histories of the meeting, the Living Memory Project (a 2000s oral history video series), a partial run of its newsletter, and committee records primarily from the...