Todd Moye

History

Professor

Fenton Wayne Robnett Professor of U.S. History

University Distinguished Teaching Professor

Director of the UNT Oral History Program

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Todd.Moye@unt.edu

20th Century U.S., Oral History

(He/Him/His)

I am a historian of the modern U.S. and the director of the UNT Oral History Program. I teach the survey of U.S. history since the Civil War and undergraduate courses on various topics in late 19th and 20th century U.S. history, including a course on civil rights movements and Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in U.S. History. I also teach graduate courses on oral history theory and practice and on modern U.S. social history. My research is on the modern African American civil rights movement. Most recently I have written about African American and Mexican American civil rights organizing in Texas, and I am currently working on a biography of the civil rights activist and politician Julian Bond. I am especially interested in social movements, grassroots approaches to social and political change, and historical memory.

UNT Faculty Profile

Select Books and Book Chapters:

Co-editor (with Max Krochmal), Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas. University of Texas Press, 2021.

"Everybody Say Freedom: Using Oral History to Construct and Teach New Civil Rights Narratives," in Hasan Kwame Jeffries, ed., Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement. University of Wisconsin Press, 2019.

Ella Baker: Community Organizer of the Civil Rights Movement. Rowman & Littlefield, 2013.

"Focusing Our Eyes on the Prize: How Community Studies Are Reframing and Rewriting the History of the Civil Rights Movement," in Emilye Crosby, ed., Civil Rights History from the Ground Up: Local Struggles, a National Movement. University of Georgia Press, 2011

Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. Oxford University Press, 2010

Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986. University of North Carolina Press, 2004

Select Awards and Recent Accomplishment Highlights:

UNT CLASS Advisory Board’s Excellence in Research Scholarship or Creative Activity Award, 2023
OHA Book Award (with Max Krochmal), for Civil Rights in Black and Brown, 2022
UNT Piper Award nominee for superior teaching, 2021
President, Oral History Association, 2017-18
Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians