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An eighty five year old senior named Hardy Hassenfuss tells his friend, Jaxon Dunn, about the day he bought a car after accidentally sneaking out of his Assisted living facility.

Andy and I review our semester and talk about how we met, our favorite memories together, and social life. we also discuss college, our upbringing, and how we think these years will help us in life

One Small Step conversation partners Fred Schein (82) and Kathleen Haynie (79) discuss their origins and discover where their views diverge.

this is my grandpas experience I’m operation blue star and it’s aftermath

In this interview conducted on November 22nd, 2023, in Calpine, CA, Maya Freschi interviews her grandma Kathy about her experiences in life and how they have shaped who she is as a person.

Teddy Simmons III (46) interviews his father in law, Eldon Ronald Warr Senior (93) about his personal experiences as a jazz musician in 1940-50s Detroit.

Barbara Hester Kurtz (87) talks with her granddaughter Susan Scott Peterson (39) about her early married life, including maternity fashion and prenatal care in the 1950s, giving birth in a military hospital and moving to Germany with her young family...

Colleagues Lexi Sickles (23) and Daniel Guzman (39) talk about the importance of creating a safe space for Oneida youth to heal and to reconnect with their culture and how they themselves are still working to do the same.

Yulissa Pena (27) interviews a family friend Roly Garcia (60) about his indictment and sentence to death row for a school assignment at Barry University.

Alta Schwartz (54) interviews her friend Jihan Hasan (48) about her journey coming to the United States and her life here.

Dr. Gina Tillis (42) speaks with her friend Sheri Neely (48) about her experience as a young woman with Black, Mexican, and Choctaw heritage who moved from California to Texas as a teenager. Gina speaks fondly of Edwards High, an...

Friends Lara Gale (42) and Hanif Ahmadzai (40) discuss their work in Afghanistan, democracy, freedom, and tolerance.

Two questions about Merlin Kipp (83) growing up. Fishing, freedom, reminiscing.

In this interview held on November 25th, 2022 in San Francisco, California. Evelyn Spiegel (15) interviews Heather Cowan (69) about how she was raised. She also touches on other topics such as who impacted her life most and how the...

This is an interview with my mother about her immigration story from Vietnam. I wanted this interview to educate the public and mainly the asian immigrant children population to appreciate and learn.

Teri Marton (82) shares her experiences in and escape from Hungary during WWII with her friend and neighbor Terry Quinn (66).

Enjoy this charming trip down memory lane with two of the surviving members of The Deb-Tones. This is an endearing story of how three Indiana teenage girls were told they needed a summer hobby, and it turned into an RCA...

[Recorded Saturday, June 11, 2022] Linda Carter () and Jeff Carter (Col '92) sit down to record a One Small Step conversation in Charlottesville, VA. Linda shares the influence growing up in a conservative, Christian household has had on her...

One Small Step conversation partners Laurie Meininger (65) and Pete Montaño (68), talk about travel, family life, voting rights, gun control and gun ownership and the tension between individual freedom and personal responsibility.

American Steve Desroches (47) and Canadian Paul Boyd (50) talk about what the United States and Canada have in common, and what they don't.

My grandmother discusses the way she grew up in rural Alabama and her years in boarding schools in Virginia and England throughout the 1940s and 50s

In this interview, conducted on May 24th 2022 in Corpus Christi, Texas, Brandy Cassidy interviews her grandmother Emmy Cassidy about her life growing up in the 50s, her relationship with her family, and raising her children. At the end, Emmy...

I spoke with my grandpa about his experiences immigrating to the United States.

We talked about when he immigrated to United States and how his life was in India

1950s