The Gerald F. Carlson Oral History, dated 1966, 2000-2010, contains notes, correspondence, a book by Carlson called Two on the Rocks, and audio recordings and transcripts of the interview between Carlson and Brian Shoemaker of the American Polar Society conducted on November 16, 2001. This interview was a part of a series of polar oral histories sponsored by the American Polar Society and Ohio State University’s Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program, with funding from the National Science Foundation. Major topics of the interview include Carlson’s experiences teaching native Inupiat children in White Mountain and Little Diomede, Alaska, seal and walrus hunting, and general experiences of life in Alaska with his wife.