Oral Histories from Latin America: Home

Oral Histories from Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and the Panama Canal, including the ones from the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, the North Carolina State University Oral Histories, and YouTube videos related to Huracán María.

Oral Histories from Latina/o Diaspora in the Americas Project (LDAP), the Institute of Hispanic-Latinx Cultures, and The History of the Jewish Community in El Salvador.

The UM Libraries creates and collects oral history interviews with an emphasis on the history of South Florida, Cuba, the Haitian Diaspora, the University of Miami, and Pan American World Airways, Inc. These oral histories document the historical and cultural linkages that bind South Florida to national and global communities while also exploring the region’s rich history and diverse local communities, as well as the history of one of the nation’s most pivotal airlines.

The Hispanic oral histories (1984-1987) were conducted by the Oral History Institute of Salt Lake City, Utah, primarily by Leslie Kelen and Sandra Fuller. Transcripts of tapes of interviews with Hispanic Americans living in Utah. Those interviewed were either immigrants or children of immigrants. Principal topics are family life, work, and religion.

Oral Histories from UCLA from Central Americans history to Mexican Civil Rights, focusing on politics, music, and film.

The Dartmouth Latino Oral History Project (DLOHP) is the outcome of oral histories produced for an undergraduate Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Course entitled “Crossing Over: Latino Migrant Roots and Transitions” taught by Prof. Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera (Anthropology; Latino Studies). This course focuses on the experiences of Latino—Mexican, Salvadoran, Cuban, Dominican, Puerto Rican, and Guatemalan—transnational migrants living in the U.S. The literature draws from anthropology and its neighboring disciplines in an attempt to understand the social, political, and economic processes that shape the varied experiences of Latino migrants. In so doing we discuss issues of race, class, ethnicity and gender, raised by recent immigration through a comparative, integrative, global-historical perspective.