Following are major oral history programs throughout the United States. Their Web sites offer detailed program descriptions as well as guides to their collections.
Founded in 1970, the institute has ongoing collection activities in the areas of arts and culture, Baylor's history, family life and community history, religion and culture, Texas Baptist history, Texas economic history, and the history of Waco-McLennan County.
The center develops, archives, and makes available to the public oral documentation pertaining to the personal, regional, ethnic, political, and international histories that link Southern California to the globalized world.
This instructional program within the history department has collections containing oral histories relating to labor history, Long Beach history, and women's history.
Founded in 1948, this program has completed nearly eight thousand taped memoirs and nearly one million pages of transcript documenting a wide variety of historical figures.
This in-depth index contains the contents of some 2,700 collections of oral histories in English from around the world. Note: it is available by subscription only to non-UCLA users; the UCLA Library has purchased a license that allows UCLA students, faculty, and staff to access it through the campus network or the campus proxy server.
These collections contain interviews with Smithsonian administrators, craftspeople, scholars, technical staff, visitors, and volunteers.
Founded in 1953, this office preserves the history of California, the San Francisco Bay area, the University of California, and the Western United States through oral histories in various subject areas.
Founded in 1963, this project conducts interviews documenting the history of agriculture in Santa Cruz County, the city of Santa Cruz, UC Santa Cruz, and the Lick Observatory.
Established in 1976 by the Hawaii State Legislature, the center preserves the recollections of Hawaii's people through oral interviews and disseminates them to researchers, students, and the general community
This program documents the history and culture of Nevada and the West through subjects including the casino gaming industry, the experiences of various ethnic groups in the development of the West, the Great Basin Indians, mining, and ranching.
Founded in 1973, the program seeks to foster a critical understanding of the South and its history, culture, problems, and prospects. It currently contains some 2,500 oral histories.
The center is dedicated to preserving and presenting the folkarts and cultural traditions of Vermont and surrounding regions.