Oral Histories

A collection of audio recordings and transcripts from the class project for David Dixon's Pennsylvania History class in 1994 that consists of interviews with baseball players, coaches, sportscasters, and PR managers.

A collection of audio recordings of oral histories conducted by James E. Mennell for his book "Area Friends Remember When: A Collection of Nostalgic Memories of Times Gone By."

The Queens of Slippery Rock Oral History project was conceived by Dr. Mark O'Connor, an associate professor of English at SRU. Rose Xavier, an English literature major from the class of 2018, researched and conducted interviews of Slippery Rock Homecoming Queens. The research culminated in the essay "Queens of Slippery Rock" co-authored by Xavier and Brenna Waugaman for the 2018 edition of SLAB literary magazine.

The ROCKvoices Oral History Project features full audio and transcripts of interviews as well as select video clips from interviews of past and present SRU faculty, staff, presidents and alumni. Hear the wonderful stories of the people who have shaped this institution from Slippery Rock State Teachers College, through the Slippery Rock State College years and into the Slippery Rock University of today.

A collection of audio recordings of interviews conducted by George Force and Donald Kelly for the oral history portion of the book "A Profile of the Early Alumni of the Pennsylvania State Normal School at Slippery Rock: the First Twenty-Five Years, 1890-1915; and, Selected Oral Histories of Slippery Rock University Alumni."

A collection of audio recordings and transcripts of interviews conducted by Joseph Riggs and Leah Brown in 1991, mainly on the topic of Slippery Rock University in the Sixties.