personal narratives

A collection of the letters written by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw who was the head of the black 54th Massachusetts Regiment during the Civil War.

The author recalls her happy childhood in Hiroshima, abruptly halted on August 6, 1945, when her known world was hideously destroyed by an atomic bomb.

Contains excerpts from memoirs, diaries, letters, newspapers, speeches, advertisements, and other primary sources that provide eyewitness reports on the American Revolution, and features introductory essays, chronologies, period illustrations and photographs, and brief biographies of key individuals.

Reprints diary excerpts, letters, journal entries, and newspaper articles that bring to life the voices of men, women, and children of all ages and races who experienced the Civil War.

The author tells about the happy life she led in China up until she was twelve-years-old when her family became a target of the Cultural Revolution, and discusses the choice she had to make between denouncing her father and breaking with her family, or refusing to speak against him and losing her future in the Communist Party.

Ishmael Beah describes his experiences after he was driven from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the government army at the age of thirteen, serving as a soldier for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF and eventually moving to the United States.

Chun Yu, born in a small city in China, describes her childhood growing up in the middle of Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution.

This book opens with background information on the Iranian Revolution 1978-1979, presents controversies on whether the Western Press demonized the Iranian Revolution, and includes personal narratives from people who witnessed or were impacted by the revolution.