From Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs is this description of his 1852 trip to California across Panama and his stay in San Francisco.

From the memoirs of William Tecumseh Sherman you can read about his arrival in California during the Mexican War, his dealings with John Fremont, and the Bear Flag Revolt.

Elliott Coues, a leading 19th century ornithologist, led great expansions of the knowledge of North American bird life, helped found the American Ornithologists' Union in 1883, edited approximately 15 volumes of journals, memoirs, and...

A personal memoir of an Army nurse, Katherine F. Nolan, describes the Christmas of 1944 when she and her fellow nurses set up a makeshift hospital to tend to the wounded.

A French Jacobin, born in Province, in 1755, of an ancient family; served as second lieutenant in the regiment of Languedoc until 1775. He made, about this time, a voyage to the Isle-de-France, the governor of which was one of his...