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Michael Tanimura (63) and Michael Takada (61) engage in a conversation about their experiences growing up in Chicago as third (and 2.5) generation Japanese Americans. Anna Takada (25) facilitates their conversation as the oral history studio manager at Alphawood Gallery.

We talked about life growing up and some favorite memories. We also talked about raising kids and shared information for future generations.

Daughter interviewing her mother.

My mom explains important life lessons she learned. She expresses what being a parent and a teacher mean to her.

Ms.Shelton personal life

Talking to my brother in a interview

This was an interview I did with my 70 year old grandmother

Erica Wood-Bedi (44) has a conversation with her mother Janice Wood (73) about her legacy in early child education and social work in the community of Joliet, Illinois, some of her experiences as the owner of a daycare center, and...

This was about her past life and what happened

This interview talks about the roots that keep my dad, Heraclio Cruz, standing strong.

During this interview we mainly focused on life. How event affect and changed their life.

Gov. Interview

Some stuff I’ve never learned from my grandpa until now. It is crazy and life changing.

First 10 years of Samuel V. Nickels life 1960-1970.

Interview for assignment

Me and my dad talk a lot about his past and all the sports he played what he did with his friends and he told about how my grandma was like and stories about his past I think this interview...

Me and my father talked about his father, and my grandfather.

In this interview, conducted on November 23rd, 2017, in Chicago Illinois, Biljana Tanceva (16) interviews her mother, Vesna Tanceva (43), about her childhood and experience in school. Vesna shares her story of her life in her grandparents' house which was...

My aunt and I talked about how she grew up as as a teenager and if she loved school. And also what advise she will give to her teenage self.

Maria Martinez , a mother of 4 , married and happy. No obstical turned her down.

I asked my father about some past information when he was a child and what he did. I also asked him for advice in high school and some of his favorite moments

The life of a woman who worked hard all her life.

In this interview, I asked my grandpa questions about his opinions and thoughts about the Vietnam War as well as the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.

My mother and I discussed what her life was like growing up as a child. She told me about some of the opportunities she had and some of her favorite memories.

Talking about Ellis Island and how they met and what they did for a living