Viet Chronicle
MSS 810
An oral history project that documents New Orleans’s Vietnamese American community, which continues to profoundly influence the city and its culture.
New Orleans’s Vietnamese American community continues to profoundly influence the city and its culture. Narratives of war, migration, and resettlement form the origin story of this community. The Viet Chronicle project focuses on the senior members of the Vietnamese community in New Orleans East. The interviews, conducted primarily in Vietnamese, record life stories of many of the community’s founders, from childhood through war, migration, resettlement in New Orleans, and the rebuilding of the community following Hurricane Katrina.
Courtesy of Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
Courtesy of Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
Explore the Interviews
All the interviews are available in their entirety through our online catalog. To access full audio and transcripts of the oral histories, click the links beneath the contributor names below, which will take you to each corresponding catalog page. Scroll down to the View Online field to find links to audio and transcript files.
Contributors
Win Nguyen
Thang Nguyen
Quyen Van Nguyen
Tinh Nguyen
Do Ngoc Nguyen
Yen Thi Nguyen
Soat Thi Nguyen
Lua Thi Tran
Ton Thi Nguyen
Lai Pham Nguyen
Lang Dang Hoang
Linh Duc Tuong
Toan Tran
Michael Phan Vu
Tho Thi Tran
Lanh Thi Tran
Phuc Huu Tran
Dam Nguyen
Tuy Nguyen
Diem Nguyen
Manh Van Tran
Hien Pham
Mat Thi Pham
Tuyen Nguyen
Joseph Cao
Cyndi Nguyen
Elizabeth Tran
Thuc Doan Nguyen
Thanh Truong
Saran Bynum
Kiem Do
Thoan Pham
Tong Nguyen
Thom Thi Pham
Danny Vu
Phuong Vu
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Oral History
HNOC’s oral history program preserves diverse personal narratives, fostering a richer collective memory through interviews and vignettes.
Read the Series
Coming to New Orleans, Part I
Introducing a new series tracing the history of immigration to New Orleans
Coming to New Orleans, Part II
After becoming part of the United States, Louisiana experienced an influx of Haitian, Irish, German, and Jewish immigrants.
Coming to New Orleans, Part III
In the decades after the Civil War, New Orleans expanded its Asian populations, while turmoil in Sicily eventually led to the French Quarter becoming known as Little Palermo.
Coming to New Orleans, Part IV
Thanks to the rise of the United Fruit Company and the city’s Catholic roots, New Orleans saw an increase in Hispanic residents during the first half of the 20th century.
Coming to New Orleans, Part V
Two disasters, the fall of Saigon and Hurricane Katrina, spurred the two largest waves of immigrants to New Orleans in recent history.
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