Interactive exhibition makes use of personal letters and diaries to document the life and experiences of Civil War nurse Amanda Akin.

Students examine what Anne Frank's writing and a video dramatization of her diary reveal about her character and how it changed while she was in hiding.

Diary of James P. Sullivan provides insight into daily events and Sullivan's views of events as he was aboard the Torpedo Boat Destroyer, U.S.S. HIST, during the Spanish-American War.

Diary of George W. Robinson who was a fireman aboard the USS Oregon during the Spanish-American War provides a rare glimpse into life and events on a battleship during the war.

Have you ever wanted to be a scientist in the Arctic? Learn from the journals of a research group working on the Arctic sea ice at the northerntip of Canada. Global warming, security of northern routes, pollution, and changes to the...

This site is provided for by the Library of Congress. Benjamin Brown French, politician and Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, kept a diary. The Library of Congress has digitalized for display the December 25, 1851, entry...

Largest collection of original Washington documents in the world, George Washington Papers collection from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 65,000 documents. Document types include...

A large repository of letters and diaries from both Union and Confederate soldiers, homefront letters, memoirs, and contemporary research files. Includes materials from the war years, 1861-1865, as well as materials from later periods...

An absolute find in your search for information on women's roles during the Civil War. Resources too numerous to list-- find diaries, letters, documents, and photographs. Of particular note, see the Carrie Berry Diary: "passages from the...

Detailed resource that documents the role Vermont played in the Civil War. Includes rosters, cemeteries, lists of descendants, diaries, letters, journals, battles, timeline.

A lesson to accompany a reading of Anne Frank's diary, "Anne Frank: One of Hundreds of Thousands" allows students to explore the circumstances in during World War II and how the war's events affected Anne Frank and her family.

Read the detailed personal account of the fall of Saigon in 1975 by experienced photojournalist Dirck Halstead of Time magazine. Provides an individual's perspective as well as reporting important political and military events in a...

This comprehensive timeline tracks the Holocaust from it's roots to the Nuremberg Trials. This interactive timeline is broken down into 5 groups based on dates. Each grouping contains a short summary and multiple primary sources such as...

September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland beginning WWII. View primary sources curated by the Holocaust Museum to better understand the agony of this time period in Poland. Sources include videos, photographs, interviews, diary entries,...

Collection of primary source journals, letters, etc. on pioneer life in Wisconsin.

This page features an analysis of the Democratic Party's decision to nominate the relatively unknown James Polk for their presidential candidate in 1844. This article gives insight into the political atmosphere of the time.

Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum presents a brief, but thorough biography on Lady Bird Johnson.

This virtual exhibit showcases a series of letters written from the battlefront during World War One by brothers, Charlie and Wally Gray, who joined the 3rd Battalion, Canadian Infantry in the spring of 1915. Experience life on the...

Included on this website are the diary of a member of the 7th Kansas Cavalry and the regimental histories. Interesting reading. See the Site Map to view a list of everything on the website.

This lesson plan deals with the process of analyzing a variety of literary texts from poetry and letters to diary entries and works of fiction. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and...

Library of Congress presents historical material for the date July 21. Primary source documents including photos, letters, diaries and historical text. Looks at the First Battle of Bull Run and the author Ernest Hemingway.

George Washington kept an official diary of his daily activities as chief executive officer of the new government. Eight pages from 1793 are reproduced here.

An indexing page which links to several pages of letters, diary excerpts, public reports, and personal correspondence relating to the use of the first atomic bomb. Includes letters and petitions drafted by scientists involved with the...

King Leopold portrayed himself as charitable with his primary goal of helping Africans, when in reality he was a fraud and scoundrel who just wanted his "slice" of Africa. Read about his schemes to take over the Congo and an excerpt from...