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Oral History Interview with Shoshana Bennett, February 13, 2020

Description: Interview with Dr. Shoshana Bennett, survivor of postpartum depression and anxiety, as well as a clinical psychologist focused on maternal mental health and maternal-infant attachment. She discusses her career as a clinical psychologist, personal experience with postpartum depression and anxiety, founding the support/advocacy group Postpartum Assistance for Mothers in 1987, and becoming a leader in the development of postpartum depression-specific therapy.
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Date: February 13, 2020
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Bennett, Shoshana S.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Wanda Franz, February 21, 2020

Description: Interview with Wanda Franz, developmental psychologist and anti-abortion activist. She was president of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) for twenty years, between 1991-2001. In this interview she speaks especially on her research and activism around “post-abortion syndrome,” the idea abortion can lead to psychological illness, including a 1988 congressional hearing. Interviewee discusses developmental psychology, C. Everett Koop, Ronald Reagan, and Vincent Rue.
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Date: February 21, 2020
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Franz, Wanda
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Paula Doress-Worters, February 10, 2020

Description: Interview with Paula Doress-Worters, founding member of the Boston Women’s Health Collective (1969) and author of the postpartum chapters in the booklet, Women and their Bodies (1969), and the book Our Bodies, Ourselves (1970). She discusses her own postpartum illness and hospitalization in 1966, and her experience with the Boston Women’s Collective and Our Bodies, Ourselves.
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Date: February 10, 2020
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Doress-Worters, Paula B. (Paula Brown)
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Anne Speckhard, February 6, 2020

Description: Interview with Dr. Anne Speckhard, Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at Georgetown University, and director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism where she is currently studying counter-terrorism initiatives. This interview focuses on Dr. Speckhards research and work related to post-abortion stress responses. She discusses post-abortion trauma syndrome, perinatal psychology, informed consent, her position as a public figure on abortion … more
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Date: February 6, 2020
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Speckhard, Anne
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Katherine L. Wisner, January 14, 2020

Description: Interview with Dr. Katherine L. Wisner, professor of psychiatry and director of the Asher Center for Study and Treatment of Depressive Disorders at Northwestern University, about her research and work related to perinatal mental health.
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Date: January 14, 2020
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Wisner, Katherine Leah
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Quaranzine 2020 by Ashley Allen

Description: A zine created by Ashley Allen. The zine includes drawings, writing, and collage illustrating the artist's experience during the COVID-19 pandemic and their feelings of fear and worry during the pandemic, the 2020 election, and civil unrest in the United States.
Date: October 2020
Creator: Allen, Ashley
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with Horace N. Robinson, February 11, 2023

Description: Interview with Horace N. Robinson, a resident of Durant, Oklahoma. Robinson discusses his upbringing, life in a small town, the appearance of polio, World War II, PTSD he had seen in veterans, Christianity, the development of pacifism, the Vietnam War, and reminders left behind.
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Date: February 11, 2023
Creator: Marshell, Nathaniel & Robinson, Horace N.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Bird Burden

Description: Bird book sketchbook created by UNT student Amy Cole, also titled The Beast. The sketchbook contains illustrated drawings and handwriting descriptions by Cole. The sketchbook also contains printed images of plant and animal life.
Date: January 15, 2020
Creator: Cole, Amy
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Allison Ketchersid - Recursive Sketchbook]

Description: Recursive sketchbook created by UNT student Allison Ketchersid. The sketchbook contains medieval manuscript images and handwriting descriptions by Ketchersid.
Date: January 15, 2020
Creator: Ketchersid, Allison
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Maria Villanueva - Recursive Sketchbook]

Description: Recursive Sketchbook created by UNT student Maria Villanueva. The sketchbook contains printed and taped images of maps and hand-writing by Villanueva.
Date: January 15, 2020
Creator: Villanueva, Maria
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Erika Jaeggli - Recursive Sketchbook]

Description: Recursive sketchbook created by UNT student Erika Jaeggli. The sketchbook contains illustrated images of plant life and handwriting descriptions by Jaeggli.
Date: January 15, 2020
Creator: Jaeggli, Erika
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with Mari Collins, February 28, 2021

Description: Interview with Mari Collins, a resident of Fort Worth, Texas, to discuss experiences during the "Texas Blackout," the power and water outage that happened between February 14th and 18th of 2021 due to the winter storm. Collins describes how hey took their care of their pets during that time, how they interacted with their neighbors, and how they handled lack of water and electricity.
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Date: February 28, 2021
Creator: Crittenden, Micah Carlson & Collins, Mari
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Carol Dix, March 29, 2021

Description: Interview with Carol Dix, an author from London, England. Dix describes her pregnancy and giving birth experiences, Postpartum Depression, the writing she produced, her surgeries, crime, life in London, and her children.
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Date: March 29, 2021
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Dix, Carol
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with David T. Vo, March 5, 2023

Description: Interview with David Vo, a resident of Calera, Oklahoma. Vo discusses his upbringing in Vietnam, his father's work as an officer in the South Vietnamese military, the Vietnam War, escaping on a boat and coming to the United States, getting his degree in automotive industrial technology at Cal State University, starting a family, and his perspective regarding his homeland.
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Date: March 5, 2023
Creator: Marshell, Nathaniel & Vo, David T.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Marilyn Gibson Calhoun, February 14, 2023

Description: Interview with Marilyn Gibson Calhoun, a UNT graduate from Dallas, Texas. Calhoun discusses her education, family, involvement with the civil rights movement, support and community groups that formed among African-American students that were experiencing discrimination at North Texas State, her teaching career, family, going through breast cancer, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the Remembering Black Dallas group.
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Date: February 14, 2023
Creator: Burns, Regina L. & Calhoun, Marilyn Gibson
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Wendy Davis, October 7, 2022

Description: Interview with Wendy Davis, the executive director of Postpartum Support International from Portland, Oregon. Davis discusses her background in psychotherapy/psychology, becoming involved in the perinatal mental health field through her own experience with postpartum depression and anxiety, being helped by a doula, getting involved in maternal mental health groups, PSI and DAD, and the growth and development of PSI over time.
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Date: October 7, 2022
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Davis, Wendy
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Carol Blocker, October 14, 2022

Description: Interview with Carol Blocker, an activist from Chicago, Illinois. Blocker discusses postpartum activism, her experience with her daughter Melanie, the difference between postpartum psychosis and postpartum depression, the Melanie Blocker Stokes Act, and the lack of detailed information available about postpartum mental illnesses.
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Date: October 14, 2022
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Blocker, Carol
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Ann Dunnewold, April 21, 2021

Description: Interview with Ann Dunnewold, a psychologist from Oberlin, Ohio. Dunnewold discusses her education, struggling with postpartum depression, Postpartum Support International, psychotherapy, self-care, writing the Postpartum Survival Guide, and her practice in Dallas.
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Date: April 21, 2021
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Dunnewold, Ann
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Barry M. Lewis, April 13, 2021

Description: Interview with Barry M. Lewis, an attorney from Chicago, Illinois. Lewis discusses his background in law, education, the COVID-19 Pandemic, his involvement with postpartum cases, postpartum psychoses, the DSM, and literature and treatment related to postpartum mental illnesses.
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Date: April 13, 2021
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Lewis, Barry M.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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