diaries

Each day during his presidency, Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United States, made several entries in a private diary and recorded his thoughts, impressions, delights, and frustrations. When his four-year term ended in 1981, the diary had more than five thousand pages. It has never been made public until now.

In 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, at the request of President Jefferson and Congress, set out on an unprecedented two-year journey up the Missouri River and across the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. The purpose was see how far it really was to the Pacific and also to map natural resources with a view towards expanding the United states. The nation did not expect them to return and when they did, the information they brought back helped persuade Congress that expansion was not only necessary, it was mandatory. Their journals present a portrait of the unspoiled American West as only members of the Corps of Discovery (as their expedition was called) saw it. This landmark edition corrects spelling and grammar, retaining essential text and making the journals easy to read.

Gives an account of the author's life from age twelve to eighteen, crafted from diaries, notebooks, and letters, and reflects all the joys and sorrows of growing up in the 1970s.

The Civil War seen through the eyes of four Union soldiers--Lt. William Glison of the 6th Ohio Infantry, Sergeant Will Duncan of the 2nd Pennsylvania Militia Battalion, John M. Kelly of the 39th Illinois Volunteer Infantry and Private George Schmittle of the 13th Pennsylvania Calvary.

An English translation of the diary of Dang Thuy Tram, a doctor who volunteered to serve in a Viet Cong battlefield hospital in the Quang Ngai Province during the Vietnam War from 1968 to 1970, when she was killed by American forces. Includes notes, photographs, and an introduction by Frances FitzGerald.

Compares three versions of "The Diary of Anne Frank, " her original entries, the diary Anne edited while in hiding, and the edition published by her father after the war; and includes information about the Frank family, details of the 1944 raid on their hiding place, and expert reports on the authenticity of the documents.

A nineteen-year-old Union soldier chronicles the last battles of the Civil War.

Presents fourteen journals written by adolescents coping with war from World War I to the war in Iraq, exposing the experiences of young people caught in the midst of war and the impact it has on their lives.