Research Collection

University of Nevada
Oral History Program
Mail Stop 0324
Reno, NV 89557-0324

775/784-6932
Fax: 775/784-1365
Email: ohp@unr.nevada.edu

Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Room 109 of the Mack Social Science Building on the University of Nevada, Reno campus

The "Research Collection" section of this site provides information about the UNOHP's collections and accessing the information that they contain. The Collection Catalog is a complete listing of all of the research volumes, books, and videos that the program has completed since its inception in 1965. You can also purchase copies of these publications and videos through the catalog by clicking on the title of the work that interests you, then placing your order on the following page.

The master index used to be a multi-volume set but has now been compiled into one file. You can browse or search it by clicking here. Some subjects reappear regularly throughout the collection (e.g., the gaming industry/gambling, ranches/ranching, politics/government), and the more common themes are listed with associated project numbers in the Topical Guide. (For a listing of project names corresponding to the numbers, please see the Code List at the end of the Topical Guide.)

Researchers working with the UNOHP's collections may find material that they would like to quote or cite in their own publications. For any utilization of UNOHP resources, please see our Use Policy for guidance on required permissions.

When completed, Nevada Voices will be an important part of the UNOHP's site, highlighting audio and transcript segments that pertain to major topics in Nevada's history, such as the Civil Rights Movement and World War II. While it is currently under construction, Nevada Voices will ultimately feature material aimed at schoolteachers, students, and the interested public.

Over the years, the UNOHP has also generated other finding aids for parts of its work, and those are featured in the "Other Projects" section. A featured finding aid at this point in time is that of the Ethnographers Among the Washoe Project. Beginning in 1998, Meredith Rucks interviewed a series of anthropologists who had studied among the Washoe, from the 1930s to the present, and abstracts of all of those interviews are available here.