personal narratives

A biography of Tchicaya Missamou, discussing his life as an eleven-year-old child soldier in the Congo, his family being brutalized and being hunted by his own militia, and his escape to Europe and then to America where he became a U.S. Marine.

Presents excerpts from the diary of Carrie Berry, a 10-year-old girl who lived in the Confederate South in 1864.

Chronicles the Civil War with letters, diaries, speeches, telegrams, newspapers, and battlefield reports from the election of President Linclon in 1860 to the surrender at Appomatox and the assassination of Linclon on April 14, 1865.

Chronicles the Bosnian War and the horrific siege of Sarajevo as seen through the eyes of regular citizens living on Logavina Street, who struggled with hunger, poverty, sniper fire, and shellings.

Ishmael Beah describes his experiences after he was driven from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the government army at the age of thirteen, serving as a soldier for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF and eventually moving to the United States. Presented in Spanish.

Chronicles the experiences Joseph Plumb Martin had while serving as a private in the Continental Army of the Revolutionary War.

Presents the complete, annotated Civil War journal of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the colonel of the first black regiment in the conflict; and includes a selection of his letters.