Lecture series · recorded 2012–2013
Oral History Project
Oral History Project is a free lecture series (2 recordings, 1.7 hours) you can stream or download at freecapitalists.org, with 2 speakers.
Oral history interviews with Mary Sennholz and Ralph Raico. Sennholz, in 2013, recalls her decades with Ludwig and Margit von Mises at the Foundation for Economic Education; Raico recalls his mentorship under Murray Rothbard and his ties to Hayek, Mises and the wider Austrian movement.
Cover painting: a Federal Writers' Project interviewer records a formerly enslaved woman's memories on her porch, 1937. See every painting in the art gallery.
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An Interview with Ralph Raico 2012
In this oral history interview, historian Ralph Raico recounts his Bronx upbringing and influences. He also discusses Mises and Hayek as teachers, the Circle Bastiat, the split between Rothbard and Ayn Rand's circle, his own academic career, and his ties to the Mises Institute.
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An Interview with Mary Sennholz 2013
In this 2013 interview, Mary Sennholz recounts working for Leonard Read at FEE, where she met Mises. She attended his NYU seminar, married Hans Sennholz after editing his dissertation at Mises's suggestion, and describes Margit von Mises's hospitality and Hans's later tenure restoring FEE's finances as its president.
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Recording dates and topics for 2 of these 2 lectures come from the Mises Institute's page for Oral History Project, checked 2026-09-28. The series and lecture summaries above them are written for this archive from the transcripts.
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- Is Oral History Project free to listen to?
- Yes. All 2 mirrored recordings stream in the browser or download as audio, at no cost and with no signup.
- How long is Oral History Project?
- 2 recordings, 1.7 hours in total.
- Who lectures in Oral History Project?
- Mary Sennholz and Ralph Raico.
- When was Oral History Project recorded?
- 2012–2013, per the recording dates recovered for this series.
- Is there a transcript of Oral History Project?
- Yes. Every lecture in the series has one, 10,921 words in total, free to read on each lecture's page and searchable in the browser.
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