Oral Histories
Found in 757 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Mekdes Hilete
Oral history interview with Mekdes Hilete, conducted by Sankar Raman and Lindsey Keefer on December 16, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Hilete discusses her experience as an Ethiopian immigrant and high school student in Portland, Oregon.
Oral history interview with Benjamin W. Hill
Oral history interview with Benjamin W. Hill conducted by Roberta Watts on February 27, 1978. Hill discusses serving as headmaster of the Hill Military Academy from 1922 to 1950.
Oral history interview with Leah Hing and Ruth Chinn
Oral history interview with sisters Leah Hing and Ruth Chinn, conducted by Jane Leung Larson in two sessions, on April 9 and April 26, 1999. Hing and Chinn discuss their family background and early life on a hop farm in Tualatin, Oregon. Hing also talks about playing in a band whose members were all Chinese American women, and about learning to fly with pilot Tex Rankin in Portland during the 1930s.
Oral history interview with Leah Hing
Oral history interview with Leah Hing, conducted by Patricia Keith on June 2, 1980. Hing discusses taking lessons from Tex Rankin at the Tex Rankin School of Flying in Portland, Oregon, during the 1930s, as well as the plane she owned and her involvement with the Ninety-Nines and the Aero Club.
Oral history interview with Leah Hing
Oral history interview with Leah Hing, conducted by Judy Yung on April 18, 1982, as part of the Chinese Women of America Research Project. Hing looks at photographs of the Chinese community in Portland, Oregon, taken in the early 20th century and discusses them, and talks about her family background and early life on a hop farm in Tualatin, Oregon.
Oral history interview with Charles F. Hinkle
Oral history interview with Charles F. Hinkle conducted by Michael Lamore and Michelle Brown on February 10, 2009, for the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest. Hinkle discusses his work as a civil rights lawyer in Oregon, particularly his work on cases regarding gay rights.
Oral history interview with Cherie Hiser
Oral history interview with Cherie Hiser conducted by Jim Morris on December 6, 1981. Hiser was a photographer best known for her self-portraits.
Oral history interview with Nell F. Hoak
Oral history interview with Nell F. Hoak conducted by Linda S. Dodds on May 7, 1980. Hoak discusses her early life on a homestead in Imperial, Nebraska, and describes traveling to Siloam Springs, Arkansas, by covered wagon in the late 19th century.
Oral history interview with Howard Hobson
Oral history interview with Howard Hobson conducted by Linda S. Dodds from June 28 to July 2, 1982. Hobson was a basketball player and a coach of college football, basketball, and baseball.
Oral history interview with Michael R. Hogan
Oral history interview with Michael R. Hogan conducted by Jan Dilg from February 27, 2013, to May 22, 2014, as part of the United States District Court Oral History Project. Hogan became a judge on the U.S. District Court of Oregon in 1991, and served as chief judge from 1995-2002.