diaries

Briefly explores the life of Sarah Gillespie, who was a young girl living as a pioneer out on the American prairie with her family.

Briefly examines the life of Sally Wister, who was just a girl in 1777 when the Revolutionary War forced her and her family out of Philadelphia.

Briefly examines the life of Sallie Hester, who was just a teenager when her family packed up and left their home in a covered wagon for California.

Briefly explores the life of Carrie Berry, a Confederate girl who was ten years old in 1864, when the Union bombarded Atlanta with cannon fire.

This contextualized narrative of the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust, and Hitler's post-invasion plans for Russia explores the private wartime diary of Alfred Rosenberg, Hitler's 'chief social philosopher'. It also chronicles the hunt for the diary, which was lost for almost three quarters of a century.

Chronicles the experiences John Muir had in 1867 when he walked from Indiana, across the southeastern United States to the Gulf coast.

The complete diaries of Theodore Roosevelt from 1877 to 1886. They cover the formative years of his life and show the transformation of a sickly and solitary Harvard freshman into a confident and increasingly robust young adult. The entries cover the premature death of his father, his courtship and marriage to his first wife, the death of his first wife and his mother on the same day, his burgeoning political career in New York City and his election to the New York State Assembly. His descriptions of balls, dinner parties, and nights at the opera offer a glimpse into life among the Gilded Age elite in Boston and New York.

Presents the diary of Barbara A. Wilson for the year following the death of her daughter, Sarah, who died while whitewater rafting.

"... Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guant?namo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime. Although he was ordered released by a federal judge, the U.S. government fought that decision, and there is no sign that the United States plans to let him go. Three years into his captivity Slahi began a diary, recounting his life before he disappeared into U.S. custody and daily life as a detainee ..."--Provided by publisher.