{"id":3900,"date":"2024-06-11T23:49:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T23:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/?page_id=3900"},"modified":"2024-11-11T22:59:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T22:59:27","slug":"cal-history-armenian-experiences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/initiatives\/oral-history-projects\/cal-history-armenian-experiences\/","title":{"rendered":"California History Through Armenian Experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n                        \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--modal-image-gallery \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--modal-image-gallery\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n\n      <div class=\"text-container\">\n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          About the Project \n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <div class=\"acf-label\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The collection consists of several hundred oral history interviews conducted by Institute team members. 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, documents, and ephemera from the narrators\u2019 personal collections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This ever-growing collection of Armenian stories serves as primary source material to understand nearly a century and half of Armenian-American life and contributions to California and beyond. Scholars and educators of various disciplines can use these recorded life stories to further explore the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">contemporary experiences of Armenians who call or have called California home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The documentation and publication of oral histories in this collection is funded, in part, by the California State Library.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          <\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-container\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2024\/06\/Copy-of-DSC03289-1536x1024-1-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2024\/06\/Copy-of-DSC03289-1536x1024-1-1280x720.jpg 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class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Excerpt from Quinn&#8217;s oral history<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n        \n                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--link\">\n\n    \n    \n  \n<a \n  class=\"link\"\n  href= https:\/\/digitallibrary.usc.edu\/asset-management\/2A3BF1M1AHNMA\n  target=\"_blank\"  aria-label=\"Read more about Oral History Interview\"  \n>\n    Oral History Interview \n  <svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewBox=\"0 0 35 35\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 35 35\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><polygon fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" fill=\"#FC0\" points=\"19.3,27.5 29.3,17.5,19.3,7.5 16.3,10.4 21.4,15.4 6.7,15.4 6.7,19.6 21.4,19.6 16.3,24.6 \"\/><\/svg>\n<\/a>\n\n\n<\/div>\n        \n                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                        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