Japanese Americans

Lists websites where you can find oral histories of Chinese laundry workers, Vietnamese refugees, Seattle cannery workers, South Asians in the Pacific Northwest, and more.

A collection of oral histories of Asian Americans in Houston.

Focuses mainly on Asian Americans in the Midwest.

UCLA has collected oral histories of Asian Americans, including Korean Americans and South Asian Americans.

A collection of voices from Asians and Asian Americans in the South.

Since 1973, the Southern Oral History Program has worked to preserve the voices of the southern past. Can browse by "interviewee ethnicity."

Cal State LA has collected oral histories of Chinese Americans in Southern California.

The Institute for Asian American Studies (IAAS), in partnership with the Chinese Historical Society of New England, has been interviewing Chinese Americans who owned, or whose parents owned, a laundry in Massachusetts.

The project documents the life stories of over 20 women who immigrated to the United States prior to 1965.

Short films share the Korean American experiences.

KADA's oral history collections include interviews from several sources. The sound recordings of these interviews are included in this section of the database and can be listened to; transcriptions are available for some.

3,068 items in the largest publicly accessible archive of South Asian American history

The South Asian Oral History Project (SAOHP) at the University of Washington Libraries. The SAOHP represents one of the first attempts in the U.S. to record pan-South Asian immigrant experiences in the Pacific Northwest using the medium of oral history.

he life stories of Vietnamese Americans in Southern California. The project contributes to expanding archives on Vietnamese Americans with the primary goal of capturing first generation stories for students, researchers, and the community