LibGuides: HIST 4422: Oral History: Theory, Practice, and Method (Spring 2025): Interview Databases

Selected Interview Databases

Visual History Archive
USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive allows users to search through and view more than 54,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide. Initially a repository of Holocaust testimony, the Archive now includes testimonies from the Armenian Genocide, the Nanjing Massacre in China, the Cambodian Genocide, the Guatemalan Genocide, the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and the ongoing conflicts in the Central African Republic and South Sudan. It also includes testimonies about contemporary acts of antisemitism.

LGBT thought and culture
LGBT Thought and Culture is an online resource of interviews, books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day.
Voices from Ellis Island an oral history of American immigration
Interviews by the National Park Serviced in cooperation with the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation conducted 1985-1986 with immigrants to the United States from around the world, all of whom arrived at Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924. Virtually every nation that contributed sizable ethnic groups to the United States is represented in the oral histories, including Russia, Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Great Britain, Poland, Romania, Spain, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Palestine, Egypt, and Japan.