personal narratives

Recounts the effect of the Cultural Revolution in China on intellectuals and schools and describes one woman's struggle to stay alive and continue her education.

Combines text, reproductions of paintings by Mort K?nstler, and primary source material to provide an overview of the Civil War and the experiences of soldiers and civilians.

The author describes his privileged life in Havana before he was sent at the age of eleven to the U.S. in 1962, in the wake of the Cuban Revolution.

A collection of contemporary accounts of daily life from the Civil War era.

A collection of letters in which Louisa May Alcott recounts the experiences she had while serving as an army nurse during the Civil War.

Focuses on the experiences of individuals in the Civil War through first-person narratives, from the perspective of both the North and the South, and speeches delivered before and during the conflict.

Written during the Civil War, this diary reveals the life of Mary Chesnut, wife of a South Carolina legislator who served the Confederacy.

An annotated edition of William Tecumseh Sherman's memoirs, in which he discusses his life from his birth in 1820 through his Civil War days as commanding general of the Union forces in the West, up to his retirement from the military in 1884.