Special Collections Research Center

The Appalachian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Oral History Project documents the growth of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community within the Appalachian Region of North Carolina and its effect on regional character, culture, diversity, and values. The project's outcomes included this oral history project and a symposium. 

In 1973, representatives from Appalachian State University collected interviews from local citizen to create a wealth of data for those interested in researching the Appalachian Region. The project was known as the “Appalachian Oral History Project” (AOHP), and became a consortium with Alice Lloyd College and Lees Junior College (now Hazard County Community College) both in Kentucky, Emory and Henry College in Virginia, and ASU. This digital collection contains selections from the approximately 600 audiocassette recordings. 

Students of the American Military History Course at Appalachian State University conduct interviews with military veterans and record their military experiences in order to create an archive of oral history interviews that are publicly accessible to researchers.

Archivists Kathy Staley and Pam Mitchem began the Appalachian State University Memory Project in 2006 to document the physical, economic, social, administrative, and academic development of Appalachian State University and its surrounding community through oral histories.