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United States
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Chicago Architects Oral History Project (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)Oral histories with architects who "shaped the physical environment in Chicago and surrounding communities."
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Documenting the American South (U of North Carolina)Digital archive of materials from the University of North Carolina.
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Hmong Oral History Project (Concordia University - Saint Paul)Over 200 oral history interviews with members of Minnesota's Hmong community recounting experiences in villages prior to the Vietnam War, as well as their refugee and immigration experiences.
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Mass. Memories Road Show (UMass Boston)Includes images and video related to life across Massachusetts.
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May 4 Collection: Oral History Project (Kent State University)Oral histories related to the shootings on the Kent State Campus in 1970.
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Oral History Collection (Kentucky Virtual Library)Focused on Kentucky history, this site includes an array of oral history projects on the topics of farming, nursing, civil rights, and veterans issues.
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Oral History of the U.S. House of Representatives (House of Representatives)Started in 2004, this collection includes interviews with Members, their aides, staff, and family members.
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Presidential Oral History ProjectInterviews with Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.
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Rutgers Oral History Project (Rutgers University)Archive of interviews with individuals who lived through World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Cold War.
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Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at Univ. of FloridaContains over 5,000 interviews and 150,000 pages of transcribed material. Includes more than 900 interviews with Native Americans, African Americans in Florida, Civil Rights action in St. Augustine (1964), and the University of Florida.
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Suffragists Oral History Project (U of California, Berkeley)Includes interviews with twelve participants in the woman's suffrage movement.
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U.S. Latino & Latina WWII Oral History Project (U of Texas at Austin)Includes interviews with WWII generation Latinos and Latinas.
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U.S. Senate Oral History Project (U.S. Senate)Includes interviews from 1976 to the present with senators as well as Senate officers, parliamentarians, clerks, police officers, chiefs of staff, reporters, photographers, and Senate pages.
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USC Shoah Foundation (University of Southern California)Includes testimonies of a wide range of Holocaust Survivors.
Asia and South Asia
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Centre of South Asian Studies (Cambridge University)Archival recordings of individuals primarily from India, but also Sri Lanka, Burma, Pakistan, and Nepal.
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Hmong Oral History Project (Concordia University - Saint Paul)Over 200 oral history interviews with members of Minnesota's Hmong community recounting experiences in villages prior to the Vietnam War, as well as their refugee and immigration experiences.
Middle East
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Harvard Iranian Oral History Project (Harvard University)Includes oral histories from 134 individuals who had roles in or witnessed Iran's political history from the 1920s to the 1980s.
Europe
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USC Shoah Foundation (University of Southern California)Includes testimonies of a wide range of Holocaust Survivors.