personal narratives

In an account of her time in the small village of Kamakwie in Sierra Leone, the author describes the inhabitants' daily struggles with poverty, memories of the recent civil war, and hopes for the future.

The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War of 1967-1970 was the defining experience of Chinua Achebe's life. The conflict was infamous for its savage impact on the Biafran people. Chinua Achebe was already a world-renowned novelist and he took the Biafran side and served his government as a roving cultural ambassador which allowed him to see the war's full horror. Immediately after the war Achebe took refuge in an academic post in the United States and for forty years he has maintained silence on those years addressing them only in his poetry. His memoir on those years now brings all his experiences to the world.

During a one-hundred-day period in 1994 Hutu extremists murdered over a half million Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda using unspeakable methods. Little or nothing was done by the international community to stop the genocide.

Re-creates the day-to-day lives of the soldiers who fought and died for both the Union and Confederacy by using diaries, letters, drawings, and paintings of the men who were there.

The Civil War seen through the eyes of four Union soldiers--Lt. William Glison of the 6th Ohio Infantry, Sergeant Will Duncan of the 2nd Pennsylvania Militia Battalion, John M. Kelly of the 39th Illinois Volunteer Infantry and Private George Schmittle of the 13th Pennsylvania Calvary.

Presents a narrative history of the Civil War from the interviews, diaries, letters, and memoirs of former slaves.

Emily Wu recounts the nineteen years she spent growing up in the midst of China's chaotic Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, describing the changes her family went through and how they shaped her adult life.