LibGuides: Primary Sources for 79-314: Letters and Diaries

Letters and Diaries

American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs. (Carnegie Mellon users only)

Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
Non-fiction published works of leading African-Americans. (Carnegie Mellon users only)
British And Irish Women's Letters And Diaries This link opens in a new window
1500-1950
Over 90,000 pages of diaries and letters. (Carnegie Mellon users only)

Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment
Narratives, diaries, journals, and letters of traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials. (Carnegie Mellon users only)
Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries from the American Antiquarian Society, 1750-1950
100,000 pages of the personal writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th, (Carnegie Mellon users only)
Medieval Family Life
Medieval manuscripts of travelers' accounts between the13 and 16th centuries. (Carnegie Mellon users only)

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories This link opens in a new window
1800-1950
100,000 pages of letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives. (Carnegie Mellon users only)

North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Covers to 1950.
150,000 pages of diaries and letters. (Carnegie Mellon users only)

Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History This link opens in a new window
Women's travel accounts of the 19th and 20th centuries.(Carnegie Mellon users only)

Women and Social Movements in the United States , 1600-2000
Documents, sources, and other material related the history of women in social movements. Scholar's Edition. (Carnegie Mellon users only)

For More

African American History: Primary Sources
Women's History: Primary Sources
Distinctive Collections
The distinctive collections vary in content to include personal papers, university publications, and newspapers.

Searching Catalogs

The resources listed here are not the only ones available. Many others are in print or microform and can be found by searching library catalogs, like CMU's library catalog, or Worldcat, a database of library holding thoughout the world (though mainly U. S.). Use some of these terms combined with your topic:

personal narratives
diaries
sources
correspondence
interviews
pamphlets
speeches
early works to 1800

For example:

"civil rights" and correspondence
slavery and "personal narratives"
Holocaust and "diaries"
"race relations" and interviews

History Librarian

Charlotte Kiger Price

she/her

Contact:

Hunt Library 109E
Pittsburgh, PA

Subjects: Education, History, Language & Linguistics, Religion, Women's Studies