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Audio recordings and transcripts with artists and other figures involved in 20th-century American art.

An online archive of oral history interviews of contemporary craftspeople, artists and designers. Courtesy of the Bard Graduate Center.

Interviews with 72 African American women in fields such as education, government, the arts, business, medicine, law, and social work.

Oral histories on various aspects of British life.

More than 900 audiovisual oral histories, with transcriptions, of Japanese-Americans who were interned in camps during World War II.

Nearly 2,000 interviews from passengers, families, immigration officials, military personnel, detainees, and former island employees.

Audio recordings with many of the principal activists involved with the Chicano Farmworkers Movement, led by Cesar Chavez from 1962-1993.

Video and audio oral history interviews with modern and contemporary artists.

These interviews are part of the Henry Hampton Collection housed at the Film & Media Archive at Washington University Libraries.

Twenty-three interviewees, born between 1823 and the early 1860s, discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom.

This oral history project was undertaken in celebration of MIT's 150 anniversary and features interviews with prominent scientists and engineers.

500 oral history interviews on topics such as civil rights, environmentalism, industrialization, southern politics, and southern women.

Interviews with American and ARVN veterans, medical staff, antiwar activists, and others.

Recorded audio interviews with Manhattan Project workers and their families who witnessed the birth of the atomic bomb.

Over 30 hours of audio, complete transcripts, and additional materials including photographs, ephemera, and portraits that tell the story of women who had an impact on the field of medicine.

Transcriptions of interviews with American veterans who fought in the Pacific theater of war.