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The Last Days of Leo Tolstoy
This site has much to offer the Tolstoy scholar. There is a diary entry written by a young woman the day after Tolstoy's death which reveals the emotions of the Russian people at the passing of this great man. There is the text of...
BBC
Bbc: Voices From Kashmir
First person accounts by the people who live in Kashmir includes what they think about the conflict between India and Pakistan.
Digital History
Digital History: Explorations: The Vietnam War as History
Comprehensive interactive learning module explores the Vietnam War and includes maps, a timeline of important events, primary source documents, photographs, personal accounts, music, and teacher resources.
World War 1
Worldwar1.com: Great War Society: Doughboy Center: Second Battle of the Marne
A thorough description of the Second Battle of the Marne and the Americans who participated in it. Read first-person accounts, find maps of the movements of the battle, and learn about some of the soldiers who perished in battle.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists
During the International Polar Year, scientists descended on the Arctic and the Antarctic in droves. While there, they documented their experiences and research work. That rich database of information, covering November 2007 to October...
Digital History
Digital History: Explorations: Japanese American Internment
Comprehensive interactive learning module explores Japanese-American Internment during World War II and includes links to primary source documents, photographs, personal accounts, and numerous other outside resources.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Women Miners in English Coal Pits
Detailed essay, written in 1842, on women and girl miners' working conditions in Great Britain. Includes the personal accounts of two women miners.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Einhard: The Life of Charlemagne
Has the complete text of the Life of Charlemagne, which is the only first person account on Charlemagne available to historians. Contains 33 chapters which includes every detail of Charlemagne's life that you could possibly imagine.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Samuel De Champlain
A first person account of the founding of Quebec City by Samuel de Champlain. Provides his own feelings about New France and what he plans to use New France for.
New York Public Library
In Motion: African American Migration Experience: Western Migration: To Kansas
From the extensive site about African-American migrations, this part of the site focuses on Exodusters and African-Americans who moved to Kansas after the Civil War. Read first-person accounts and see photographs of these hardy...
University of Virginia
Virginia Center for Digital History: Television News of the Civil Rights Era
A rich collection of streaming video samples of television news footage from 1950 to 1970, along with an assortment of primary source documents, first-person accounts, a glossary of terms, and essays and analysis for learning about the...
University of Nebraska
Railroads and Making of Modern America: Land Sales, Migration and Immigration
Primary source materials that focus on how the westward expansion of the railroads affected the sale of land, migration, immigration, and population characteristics. Includes letters, personal accounts, maps, documents, etc.
Other
North Carolina Museum of History: North Carolina and the Civil War
This museum from North Carolina has collected artifacts, personal accounts of soldiers, biographies, and information about battles in North Carolina.
Other
Passport to Knowledge: Passport to Antarctica
Visit Antarctica, the most remote continent, through this site that covers the climate, animals, geography, and first-person accounts from visitors in the 1990s.
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Indigenous Peoples' Literature: Chief Sitting Bull
This site is an excellent resource on Sitting Bull. Not only does it include some famous quotes by him and an overview of his life, but it also contains a first-person account of his life which contains many interesting obscure facts and...
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48th Ovvi Regiment: The Official Record of the 48th Ovi at Shiloh
This is truly an excellent study and recounting of the Battle of Shiloh. The strategy of the Battle and the importance of the outcome are discussed. Primary resources such as Capt. Posegate's personal account and John Richardson's...
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Fall of Saigon
This resource provides many personal accounts of the fall of Saigon from Marines involved in the evacuations. Pictures are also included.
Brown University
Brown University Library Center: Perry Visits Japan: A Visual History
Showcases a beautiful Japanese scroll that depicts Commodore Matthew Perry's landing in Japan in 1854 and a set of lithographs by Willam Heine that illustrate Perry's expedition. These visual images accompanied by student essays are...
Northern Illinois University
Illinois Historical Digitization Projects: Illinois During the Civil War
What a find! Watch videos, read essays, and find first-person accounts of the Civil War in relation to Illinois. Although no battles were fought there, the state contributed many regiments.
Other
Photographer's Diary April 20 30, 1975: Fall of Saigon
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...
Ibis Communications
Eye Witness to History: U Boat Attack, 1916
This article provides an overview of the use of submarines in WWI with many images. Contains the first-person account of a U-Boat commander's attack on a ship.
New York Times
New York Times: Destroying a Family,destroying a Village
Shows what is happening to families and villages in Darfur. Maps and images show what is actually happening with real people. Gives a first person account from a 75 year old man.
New York Times
New York Times: Baghdad's Survivors
This interactive resource communicates the catastrophic effect that the war in Iraq has had on the Iraqi civilian population. It gives first person accounts that are translated for ease of following along with the audio. (23 July 2006)
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This is the full text of the nine-book epic novel/poem Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; it is a first-person account by the title character Aurora Leigh.