diaries

Presents the diary of teacher Esme Raji Codell's first year in charge of a fifth-grade classroom in an inner-city public school.

Presents an abridgment of the log of the ship "Santa Maria" from Christopher Columbus's first expedition to the New World; and features illustrations.

Presents the firsthand accounts of eight women who traveled the overland trails to the unsettled west in the nineteenth century by covered wagon.

The journals of Arthur Schlesinger Jr. offer an intimate look at the political and cultural changes that have influenced America over the last fifty years, chronicling his experiences in American politics and recording his impressions of the people around him.

Reporter Anne Garrels chronicles the experiences she had while staying in Baghdad's Palestine Hotel through the American invasion of Iraq.

Presents a "Restored" shipboard journal.

Union soldier Elisha Hunt Rhodes chronicles his career in the war.

Presents the diary of the Civil War veteran who led an expedition down the Colorado River to explore the depths of the Grand Canyon.