The Oral History Tradition at the University of Alabama in Huntsville
- Paper number
IAC-06-E4.2.04
- Author
Mrs. Anne Coleman, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States
- Coauthor
Mr. Robert L. Middleton, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States
- Coauthor
Dr. Charles Lundquist, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States
- Year
2006
- Abstract
The Oral History Collection in the M. Louis Salmon Library at the University of Alabama in Huntsville provides a more personal insight into space history than do written accounts. The earliest interviews in the Collection at UAH include recordings of Willy Ley, Wernher von Braun, and Walter Dornberger, taped interviews made to promote a NASA History Project about the Saturn V, and video interviews of German rocket scientists by Dr. Donald Tarter, a UAH Sociology professor, now retired. Continuing the tradition of previously recorded interviews, the current Oral History Project is an effort to produce and preserve the memories of younger people who have shaped the history of the space activities and of Huntsville. Interviews about historic work on space topics are being recorded in the UAH Multimedia Laboratory and saved in both the Archives and Special Collections Department and online via the Archives webpage on the Library website (www.uah.edu/library). The persons who are interviewed share their memories and expertise in the evolution of space exploration in a frank manner not usually captured in print. The technical process of preserving interviews and future plans for the Oral History Project both present diverse challenges.
- Abstract document
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