The Oral History Center (OHC) is a research unit of The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. We record and publish oral histories, usually over multiple interview sessions, to preserve the stories and lived experiences of people from a wide range of communities and institutions. We are historians who work closely with narrators to research, record, and review their transcripts before they are made publicly available online through the UC Berkeley Library. The OHC is among the largest and most widely used oral history collections in the country. On average, we grow our collection of oral histories by 400 hours annually. Today, this collection at The Bancroft Library contains over 5,000 interviews — from governors and industrialists to artists, activists, and scholars — most of which are available online. We lead educational programs to train people in oral history best practices, and we interpret these histories through multimedia exhibits, podcasts, and articles.
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Search the Oral History Center collection of interview transcripts using interviewee name, interviewer name, project title, interview title, or general subject terms.
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The Bancroft Library
University of California MS 6000
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
This location is wheelchair accessible.