diaries

Briefly examines the life of William Bircher, who was a young drummer boy for the Union Army during the Civil War.

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.

A translation of the diary of Rywka Lipszyc, a 14 year-old Jewish girl, that describes her life in Poland's Lodz ghetto between October 1943 and April 1944.

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.

A personal diary written during World War I by the German war ace, also known as "The Red Baron.".

The devastating story of Poland's Jedwabne during World War II, which was the basis of Jan Gross's controversial Neighbors (2001). Based on the author's encounters with witnesses, survivors, murderers, and their helpers between 2000 and 2004, this book raises important questions about the responsibility of Poles for the Holocaust and about how the 1,600 Jewish inhabitants died in Jedwabne.