personal narratives

Presents over thirty eyewitness accounts from men, women, and children who lived through the events of the American Revolution, including the Boston Tea Party, the confrontation at Lexington and Concord, the Battle of Bunker Hill, the passing of the Declaration of Independence, and others.

Tells the stories of twenty-seven men, women, and children who lived through the Civil War, arranged chronologically through the years of the conflict, with follow-up questions and activities.

Provides excerpts from letters, books, newspaper articles, speeches, and diaries which express various thoughts about the strategies, battles, personalities, and politics of generals during the Civil War.

Provides excerpts from letters, books, newspaper articles, speeches, and diaries which express various thoughts about the experiences of women and the families left behind during the Civil War.

Provides excerpts from letters, books, newspaper articles, speeches, and diaries which express various thoughts about the experiences of Union soldiers during the Civil War.

Uses letters, diary entries, and other primary sources to describe the daily lives, thoughts, and emotions of slaves during the Civil War.

Describes the Civil War through primary sources written by the most prominent Confederate generals.

Presents a history of the Civil War, focusing on the experiences of the soldiers and sailors who fought for the Confederacy and the Union, and features reproductions of actual letters written by enlisted men to friends and family members.

Excerpts from the author's autobiography recall his experiences as a thirteen-year-old boy serving on an American privateer ship during the Revolutionary War.

Presents first-person accounts of the battles, drills, marching, food, death and disease from both Union and Confederate soldiers of the Civil War.