Oral History Program

In 2012, the Office of Archives and Records launched an Oral History Program.  The aim of the program is to collect the history of the Archdiocese of Atlanta through interviews with its priests, its men and women religious, its employees, and its parishioners.

According to the Oral History Association

Oral history is a field of study and a method of gathering, preserving and interpreting the voices and memories of people, communities, and participants in past events. Oral history is both the oldest type of historical inquiry, predating the written word, and one of the most modern, initiated with tape recorders in the 1940s and now using 21st-century digital technologies.

Through a grant from the Catholic Foundation of North Georgia, Inc. in 2012, the Office of Archives and Records was able to purchase top of the line digital recording equipment and has since been slowly conducting interviews throughout the Archdiocese of Atlanta.

Below you will find a list of those who have been interviewed and the date of the interview. For access to the full Oral History recordings or to the transcriptions of the interviews, please contact the Office of Archives and Records at archives@archatl.com.