Subject Areas of Oral Histories

Below are lists by topic of oral histories published by the The Regional Oral History Office of The Bancroft Library. Click on the topics of interest to you in order to browse the titles of individual oral histories within each series. Whenever available, online transcripts have been linked. This is only a partial listing of our volumes. For complete volume availability please search the library catalogs or browse our Catalogue I (1954-1979) and Catalogue II (1980-1998). You may also wish to reference our Project pages for additional project information and highlights of online content.

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Arts and Literature

Artists with Disabilities
Architecture and Landscape Architects
Art, Sculpture, and Photography
Books and Fine Printing
California Afghan Artists
Fiber Arts
Music and Dance
Production and Presentation
Poetry and Literature

Business

Business History
Western Mining in the Twentieth Century

Community History

AC Transit
California-Russian Emigre Series
Education
Girls’ Club, San Francisco
Hungarians under Communism and Capitalism
Italian-Americans From Northern California
Individual Community Oral Histories
Jewish Community Leaders of the San Francisco Bay Area
Philanthropy
Portuguese in California
Richmond Community History Project
Rosie the Riveter World War II American Homefront Project

Food and Wine

California Wine Industry
Food and Food Ways

Law and Jurisprudence

California Supreme Court
Individual Memoirs
Law Firms
Legal Education
U.S. District Court for Northern California
U.S. Supreme Court

Natural Resources, Land Use, and The Environment

Agriculture
Forestry and Soil Science
Horticulture, Botany, and Landscape Design
Land Use Planning
Parks and the Environment
Sanitary Engineering History
Seismic Safety
Sierra Club History
Water Resources in California

Politics and Government

California State Archives Oral History Program
California Women Political Leaders
Earl Warren Era in California, 1925-1953
Goodwin Knight and Edmund G. Brown Eras in California, 1953-1966
Ronald Reagan Era in California, 1966-1974
Individual Memoirs
Suffragists

Science, Medicine, and Technology

AIDS Epidemic in San Francisco
Bioscience and Biotechnology
Chemistry and Physics
Engineering
Kaiser Permanente Founding Generation 
Kaiser Permanente 1970 - Present
Medical Physics and Biophysics
Medicine and Public Health
Ophthalmology
Stem Cell Research

Social Movements

Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement
Labor Movement
Organizations and Issues of the Blind, 1880s-1950s
Social Welfare History
Volunteer Leadership

University of California History

Anthropology
China Scholars
Department of History, UC Berkeley
Exploring Diversity and Access at the University of California
Faculty, Administrators, and Regents
Library School
Office of the President
University of California Alumni