This article describes recording sales on account in a sales and cash receipts journal and then posting to an accounts receivable ledger. It also describes the relationship between the accounts receivable ledger and the general ledger....

Presents Boswell's account of his trip with Dr. Samuel Johnson. Multiple digital formats of the full text are available.

Discover how journals, memoirs, diaries, and autobiographies are important historical sources. Learn how historians use these personal accounts and get other questions answered.

A hedcut of Bill Gates from the Wall Street Journal along with a brief account of his development of Microsoft Corporation.

Students read news reports and first-person accounts to imagine what it would be like to be in a blackout in a large city. They follow news reports as if the event were unfolding in real-time and keep weblogs or journals of their...

An account of Helen Keller's remarkable accomplishments learning to speak, though blind and hearing impaired. Helen Keller was exceptional in her ability to communicate the challenges that handicapped people face to the rest of the...

This is a very detailed biography of Sacagawea, supplemented by numerous historical photos. It is written from the vantage point of a native person, unlike most accounts. It does discuss how women were abused in her Shoshone tribe, due...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. When the USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, triggering the Spanish-American War, the New York Times and...

Articles published in the Knoxville, Journal and Tribune, provide accounts of the 4th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry at Camp Poland, Tennessee during the Spanish American War.

Accounts of the 6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry at Camp Poland, Tennessee during the Spanish American War as appeared in the Knoxville Journal and Tribune in 1989.

Articles appearing in the Knoxville Journal and Tribune in October, 1898, provide accounts of the 6th Virginia Volunteer Infantry in Camp Poland, Tennessee during the Spanish American War.

Articles from August 27, 1898 describing accounts of the 31st Michigan Volunteer Infantry at Camp Poland, Tennessee appeared in the Knoxville Journal and Tribune during the Spanish-American War.

Accounts published in the Knoxville Journal and Tribune, describe events experienced by the 1st Georgia Volunteer Infantry at Camp Poland, Tennessee, during the Spanish American War.

Article appearing in the Knoxville Journal and Tribune provide accounts of the Division Hospital at Camp Poland, Knoxville, Tennessee during the Spanish American War describing conditions for the sick and injured, including the addition...

An absolute find in your search for information on women's roles during the Civil War. Resources too numerous to list-- find diaries, letters, documents, and photographs. Of particular note, see the Carrie Berry Diary: "passages from the...