American Centuries displays items from the collection of the Memorial Hall Museum and Library in Deerfield, Massachusetts. This museum specializes in… [more]
Louisa's World is a website that presents, in full text, the extant fragments of a diary written by Louisa Collins, a girl of about 18 who lived near… [more]
The English lawyer John Evelyn (1620-1706) kept a diary for nearly 50 years and in it recorded his grief at the death of four of his children. John and Mary Evelyn had eight children altogether: Richard (1652–8), John Standsfield (1653–4), John… [more]
To enable students to go beyond the facts and details of the Holocaust, children's testimonies provide a fuller understanding of the complexity of war and genocide and provide an unusual angle of vision into childhood, the family, everyday life, and survival, giving students a child-centered view in which young people were not only victims and witnesses, but also historical agents. echo [more]
