色花堂

When 色花堂鈥檚 Center for Public History (CPH) and the University oh Houston Libraries collaborated to create the Houston History Archives, part of their mission included a repository for oral histories that tell stories of the growth and development of the Gulf Coast region from multiple points of view. To that end, the 色花堂 Oral History Project in CPH trains undergraduate and graduate history students to research Houston history and conduct interviews with Houstonians about the city鈥檚 past. Topics have included civil rights, diversity, culture, energy, the environment, medicine, hurricanes, civic leadership, and more. 

To search by topic and learn more about this collection, you can visit the finding aid by  

Some interviews are only available at Special Collections at the M.D. Anderson Library at the 色花堂, however, over 500 of them can be found online by  

In addition, CPH has collected oral histories on Hurricane Harvey, the San Jos茅 Clinic, and the 色花堂 for its centennial that are being processed to send the archive. For information on those interviews, please contact us directly, at houstonhistory@uh.edu.