Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to Use

The Southern Oral History Program (SOHP) welcomes non-commercial use and access that qualifies as fair use as stipulated by U.S. Copyright law to all unrestricted interview materials in the collection. The researcher must cite and give proper credit to the SOHP. The SOHP requests that the researcher informs the SOHP as to how and where they are using the material. Please use the online form available on the SOHP site to request permission and inform the SOHP of your use.

Preferred Citation

Interview with [interviewee name] by [interviewer name], [interview date] [interview number], in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Series Y: Stories to Save Lives (04007Y), Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Example: Interview with Nancy Holt, 13 June 2018 (Y-0033), in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Series Y: Stories to Save Lives (04007Y), Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance

Transferred from the Southern Oral History Program beginning in the 1970s.

Additional Descriptive Resources

Database: A searchable database of all Southern Oral History Program interviews is available at http://www.lib.unc.edu/dc/sohp/. Patrons may keyword search the database by: (1) Abstract; (2) Transcript; (3) Interviewee name; (4) Interviewer name; (5) Interview number; or (6) Subject term. Patrons may browse the database by: (1) Interviewee name; (2) Interviewer name; (3) Interviewee occupation; (4) Interviewee ethnicity; or (5) Project.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Finding aid for Series Y: Stories to Save Lives (04007Y) created and encoded by Laura Hart in August 2019.

Updated: October 2019

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Oral history.
• Southern Oral History Program.
• Southern States--Biography.
• Southern States--History.

In 1973, the History Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill established an oral history program devoted to the study of the southern region of the United States.

The Southern Oral History Program collects interviews with southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources. Interviews are conducted by Program staff, graduate students, faculty members, and consultants. The Program also serves as a collecting agency, accepting donations of tapes and transcripts of interviews conducted by other researchers.

Stories to Save Lives is a collection of oral histories focused on the experience of health, illness, and medical care in the South. The project aims to create a better understanding of how southerners' experiences with healthcare have changed since the 1960s, how stories passed down through families and communities shape peoples' beliefs and attitudes about health and illness, and how social and cultural differences impact the relationships between providers and patients. The goal is to study the past as well as the present, with an eye to informing future changes to the American healthcare system. The narrators in Stories to Save Lives are caregivers, doctors, nurses, other healthcare workers, and community members of different ages, racial and ethnic background, gender, sexuality, and socio-economic status. As a result, the interviews include recollections of healthcare from a multitude of perspectives and levels of experience. Many themes emerge throughout the collection including: the desire for self-sufficiency in life and healthcare; racial and gender disparities; memories and practice of home remedies; relationships between healthcare providers and patients; reliance on community support; beliefs in the influence of foodways; and cost of healthcare and insurance.

ONLINE INTERVIEW DATABASE

Click here for the online, sortable list of oral history interviews in this series. Each interview is cataloged in the interview database with descriptive information about the interviewee and the contents of the interview. Transcriptions and audio recordings for many of the unrestricted interviews are available in this online database.