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ORAL HISTORIES OF THE INLAND EMPIRE

Oral History Projects

Read through the various projects, all based on oral history storytelling. Some of these projects are traditional text-based oral histories, while some are imagined as poems, videos, illustration, and more.

All of these student projects are shared with the narrator's (interviewee's) permission and are just a small sampling of what educators' classes did.

Oral histories were completed in various classes (e.g. Journalism, English, Theater) in middle school, high school, and college classrooms during the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years.

We hope you enjoy learning from these narrators' stories.

Mr. Winter's Class

Oral histories from Mr. Sepulveda's class

STORIES OF THE INLAND EMPIRE

Look through the gallery to read IE residents' stories.

All oral histories have been edited for length and clarity and to protect the narrator's privacy. All narrators (interviewees) have given their permission to share their stories.

"Ganas"

“Nothing Will Hold Me”: Perseverance

"I don’t want to dedicate into something and not give it all": Entrepreneurial Spirit

"That felt like an island and it seemed fun"

"It's all about hard work": Community Support

“We can talk about the I.E. being so great and so terrible at the same time”: Players of the Inland Empire

"We were very thankful": Finding Opportunities and Grief in California

"I mean not even your own family, your own dad, does that for you and somebody else does it for you"

"There is a lot more good people here"

"I was able to see everything in a different way": Opportunities

"I had dreams of becoming a successful person": Series of closing doors

"Pride and Joy"

"Keep the promises you make to yourself"

Having High Hopes While Paying Rent

"Anything that crosses through in front of me I always take it as a learning experience"

"Small things like that helps so much to help us get through the shift"

"You will never live your full life if you're always living in fear"

"I am entirely content with who I am"

A picture of two hands forming a heart

Karen: "Shine Bright Like a Diamond"

"The Army Experience"

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