History Resources: Papers, Letters and Diaries

Contains more than 100,000 pages of diaries, letters, and memoirs including 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials from more than 2,000 authors. The writings are from politicians, generals, slaves, farmers, seamen, wives, and spies and give views on every aspect of the war.

A collection of the diaries and correspondence of approximately 500 British and Irish women. Includes primary materials spanning more than 300 years, as well as biographies and an annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.

Provides a personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada based upon personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories. Includes several thousand pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews, indexed and searchable for the first time.

Contains more than 150,000 pages of diaries and letters detailing experiences of more than 1,300 women, dating from Colonial times to 1950. Includes many biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography.