John Chookasezian (Chookasian) Images

California History Through Armenian Experiences Oral History Project by the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies documents the diversity and history of Armenian presence in California. The interviews in this collection range from formal oral history interviews by trained interviewers, to crowd-sourced interviews through the Institute’s My Armenian Story Project. Narrators share their stories of migration, community-building in diaspora, personal experiences of world and regional events, and their individual and collective contributions to the social and cultural fabric of California and beyond. A number of interviews also contain digitized photographs and ephemera from the narrators’ personal collections.The documentation and publication of oral histories in this collection is funded, in part, by the California State Library through the “California History Through Armenian Experiences” project.