Listening for a Change: North Carolina Communities in Transition

The North Carolina Business History Series

University History

The Burlington Industries Series




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Research at SOHP

Research - by faculty, graduate students, and associates - is the heart of our mission at the Southern Oral History Program. For 35 years, SOHP has worked to document and understand the extraordinary history of this extraordinary region. The SOHP's oral history research collection, which comprises more than 4,000 interview interview recordings and related materials, is permanently archived for scholars in UNC-CH's Southern Historical Collection.

Since 2001 SOHP researchers have been gathering interviews for our Long Civil Rights Movement initiative, a long-term effort to document the historic changes that have taken place in the South since the civil rights movement and related social movements of the 1960s.

Past SOHP research initiatives include a major Piedmont industrialization series which yielded the award-winning Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World. The more recent Women's Leadership initiative made possible the Leading Women video documentary. A further research effort supported Bill Bamberger's Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory.

In 2002 the SOHP concluded work on Listening for a Change: North Carolina Communities in Transition, an ambitious, multi-year project documenting the changes that have so dramatically reshaped North Carolina since World War II. Other major initiatives have included The North Carolina Business History Project, The History of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill interview series, and a study of Burlington Industries, Inc., the North Carolina-based textile manufacturer.




The Southern Oral History Program
Center for the Study of the American South
Love House and Hutchins Forum
410 East Franklin St., CB# 9127, UNC-CH
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-9127
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