The Rutgers Oral History Archives seeks to document the life experiences of New Jersey residents and/or Rutgers University faculty, staff and alumni through its own interviews and in partnership with individuals and entities within the State and University communities carrying out similar work. ROHA seeks to make the resultant collection available to the benefit of scholars, students and others around the world through its digital online archive.
In 1997, ROHA became one of the first oral history programs to deliver its material to a global audience through the Internet. In the years since, our online digital archive has been recognized as a world-class oral history resource. Today, it features over 1,200 fully-transcribed oral histories, nearly 50,000 pages of text. The audio recordings and final full-text interview transcripts are housed at Special Collections & University Archives, Alexander Library, and made publicly available to researchers through our website.