personal narratives

Addresses every military, political, and social aspect of the Civil War including campaigns and battles, strategies and tactics of Union and Confederate generals, and the everyday lives of soldiers through eyewitness accounts, vintage photographs, artifacts, and illustrations.

Reminiscences of a Northern army war correspondent during the Civil War.

Memoirs of a member of the Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

A first-hand account by Anchee Min of living in China under Mao who led the nation with cruel oppression. She never experiences a genuine childhood during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. She was compelled to betray her favorite teacher, and to become a peasant worker where she was later humiliated.

A self-portrait of the Civil War General with firsthand accounts of crucial Civil War events.

The author tells of her solitary confinement and torture as a wealthy Chinese woman during the Cultural Revolution.

An account of growing up in China, describing political restraints and political demonstrations starting in the mid-1980s.

Presents the narrative of Chainbreaker, who fought to save the Iroquois from being overrun by the Continental armies and eventually met his old enemy, George Washington, to arrange treaty negotiations and become an emissary for peace to other Native American nations.