Dear Diary: Thoughts of the Famous & Not so Famous

History is a conglomeration of life experienced by the person next door. Discover the everyday lives of Civil War Soldiers British and North American Women in the 18th and 19th centuries, American Indians, or American immigrants fleeing famine and persecution, with six new original source databases from Alexander Street Press. Expand and inform your research with references to diaries, letters, oral histories, and eye-witness accounts of history in the making.

British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries spans more than 400 years of personal writings, bringing together the voices of women from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. This database lets researchers view history in the context of women’s thoughts – their struggles, achievements, passions, pursuits, and desires.

Both the famous and the unknown populate the collection. The lives and thoughts of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Mary Shelley, Queen Victoria, Frances Kemble, Queen Elizabeth, Mary Wollstonecraft, Christina Rossetti, Florence Nightingale, and Maude Gonne can be compared with the experiences and ideas of ordinary women from all walks of life.
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In the News: Native Americans & The Longest Walk 2008

Week of July 14, 2008

News Item: Last Friday, thousands gathered in Washington, D.C. after completing an 8,000 mile cross-country walk that began over five months ago. During the “Longest Walk 2008,” participants marched in support of “environmental and sacred sites protection, cultural survival, youth empowerment and Native American rights.” Dennis Banks, co-founder of the American Indian Movement, was one of the event’s organizers. The original “Longest Walk” took place in 1978.

Blood of the Land: The Government and Corporate War against the American Indian Movement
By Rex Weyler. Vintage Books, 1984
Call Number: E93 .S54 1984

Daily Life of Native Americans in the Twentieth Century
By Donald Fixico. Greenwood Press, 2006
Call Number: E98 .S7 F56 2006

Editorializing “the Indian Problem”: The New York Times on Native Americans, 1860-1900
Compiled by Robert Hays. Southern Illinois University Press
Call Number: E98 .P99 H39 2007

Ghost Dancing the Law: The Wounded Knee Trials
By John William Sayer. Harvard University Press, 1997
Call Number: KF224 .B27 S39 1997
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