The Louise Pettus Archives and Special collections has been collecting and preserving stories, personal accounts, and recollections through recorded interviews as part of the Oral History Program since 1973. The Archives holds more than 300 interviews in audio, video and text formats, on a wide variety of subjects, including life at Winthrop, Rock Hill, SC and the Catawba Region and people, mill life and workers, American Wars and conflicts, Veteran History Project, women in politics and society, African-American, and many other topics.
The Oral History Program's mission is to record unique life histories, documenting historical events and memories of our time by preserving and adding these voices to the historical record.
Browse the Oral History Program Collections:
- Alumni
- Anthony DiGiorgio
- Civil Rights Movement
- Coeducation
- Faculty and Staff
- Great Depression
- History 509
- History 616
- Hurricane Hugo
- Integration
- LGBTQ
- National Extension Homemakers' Council
- Politics
- Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation
- Sixties Radicals
- South Carolina: Native American Voices
- Vietnam War
- World War I
- World War II
