Early
Plymouth Letters
A collection of letters written by the Pilgrims themselves
Mourt's Relation
A journal written by William Bradford in the early 1620s
Dutch
Minister Described the Iroquois (1644)
Letters
from an American Farmer
On-line text of the book by J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
Diary of a Colonial Housewife
on Long Island
Hardships of a Long Island mother
The Diaries
of George Washington
Martha Ballard's Diary - The Story
of a Maine Midwife in the 18th Century
From
the Diary of Ebenezer Denny describing the surrender at Yorktown 1781
Recollections
of an Old Soldier: The Life of Captain David Perry
A soldier of the French and Revolutionary wars
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Eyewitness
to the Nineteenth Century
History through the eyes of those who lived it
Letters
and notes on the manners and customs of the North American Indians
Diaries, Memoirs, Letters
and Reports Along the Trails West
Everyday
Life in America in the Early Nineteenth Century
Taken from the journals of Alexis DeTocqueville on his journey through
America in 1831-32
First Person Narratives
of the American South
First
Person Narratives of the American South 1860-1920
Presented by the Library of Congress
Journal
of a voyage up the Missouri River in 1811 by Henry Marie Mrackenridge
Journal
of a fur-trading expedition on the Upper Missouri by John Luttig 1812-1813
The American
Civil War: Diaries, Letters, and Memoirs
Lengthy list of transcripts of original documents
Civil War Diaries
and Letters
Presented by the U.S. Civil War Center
Cornelius
C. Platter Civil War Diary 1864-1865
Love Letters of the Civil War
Civil
War Reminiscences by Catharine Hunsecker
The Civil War in south central Pennsylvania
The Narrative of Bethany
Veney, a Slave Woman
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Eyewitness
to the Twentieth Century
History through the eyes of those who lived it
Reminiscences
of the Great Depression in Michigan
American
Life Histories 1936-1940
Memoirs of World
War One
A lengthy list of first hand accounts of the great war
Eyewitness to
History - World War I
My Mother's War
- Momentos of WWI
Memories and momentos of a World War I nurse in France
Eyewitness to
History - World War II
A Victorian Lady's Trip
to Europe - Summer of 1914 during the outbreak of World War I
Personal
Recollections of the Holocaust
The
Memoirs of an America Citizen (1905)
A
War Nurse's Diary - Sketches from a Belgian Field Hospital |