Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Institute for Asian American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Interviews of Chinese Americans who owned, or whose parents owned a laundry in Massachusetts. Transcripts available only.

With more than 900 video interviews, it is one of the largest digital archives of the Japanese American internment.

Activists from Seattle's Filipino American civil rights and labor movements discussed their experiences in videotaped oral histories.
From the University of Washington Seattle Civil Rights Labor History Project.

Captures the narratives of South Asian immigrants to the Pacific Northwest from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka between the 1950s through the 1980s. The project also records many significant contributions of very talented South Asian classical performing artists (vocalists, instrumentalists and dancers) in the Pacific Northwest. Video and audio available.

When millions of Vietnamese refugees fled Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975, many were forced to destroy or leave behind most of their personal belongings, including precious photographs, important documents, or meaningful artifacts. Whatever they managed to bring with them were sometimes lost in the process of resettlement and moving from different homes and cities. Even when they were able to preserve these treasures, many of their children and grandchildren are unaware of the history of these items or their significance. UC Irvine students were asked to record a Vietnamese American sharing an object that is of value to them and to convey its importance in relation to the Vietnamese American experience. Audio files with transcripts.

With over 800 oral histories COH collects, documents, preserves and highlights the recollections of Native Hawaiians and the multi-ethnic people of Hawaiʻi. It produces oral histories and interpretive historical materials about lifeways, key historic events, social movements and Hawaiʻi’s role in the globalizing world, for the widest possible use. From the University of Hawaii, Manoa, Department of Ethnic Studies. Includes oral histories of Native Hawaiians, African Americans and Japanese Okinawans. Transcripts available.

Founded in 2009, this ongoing student conducted project led by Laura Kina, Professor Art, Media, & Design, is dedicated to collecting oral histories of Asian/Asian American artists and key organizers and participants of Asian/Asian American arts and cultural organizations. While the scope of the project encompasses diasporic and US born Asians across the United States, the primary focus of the archive is to document the history of Midwestern Asian American artists and arts organizations.

This archive offers a window into the story of South Asian immigrants from the Punjab region in north India to California since the turn of the twentieth century. Explore over 700 video interviews, speeches, diaries, photographs, articles, and letters in which Punjabi Americans share their life stories, values, and contributions to California’s history over the last hundred and twenty years.