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North Carolina Museum of History: North Carolina and the Civil War
This museum from North Carolina has collected artifacts, personal accounts of soldiers, biographies, and information about battles in North Carolina.
Other
Passport to Knowledge: Passport to Antarctica
Visit Antarctica, the most remote continent, through this site that covers the climate, animals, geography, and first-person accounts from visitors in the 1990s.
Other
Indigenous Peoples' Literature: Chief Sitting Bull
This site is an excellent resource on Sitting Bull. Not only does it include some famous quotes by him and an overview of his life, but it also contains a first-person account of his life which contains many interesting obscure facts and...
Other
Cain: Background on the Northern Ireland Conflict
Links to essays, personal accounts, photographs and other resource materials that provide detailed background information on the conflict and politics of the Northern Ireland Conflict.
Other
48th Ovvi Regiment: The Official Record of the 48th Ovi at Shiloh
This is truly an excellent study and recounting of the Battle of Shiloh. The strategy of the Battle and the importance of the outcome are discussed. Primary resources such as Capt. Posegate's personal account and John Richardson's...
Other
Fall of Saigon
This resource provides many personal accounts of the fall of Saigon from Marines involved in the evacuations. Pictures are also included.
Brown University
Brown University Library Center: Perry Visits Japan: A Visual History
Showcases a beautiful Japanese scroll that depicts Commodore Matthew Perry's landing in Japan in 1854 and a set of lithographs by Willam Heine that illustrate Perry's expedition. These visual images accompanied by student essays are...
Northern Illinois University
Illinois Historical Digitization Projects: Illinois During the Civil War
What a find! Watch videos, read essays, and find first-person accounts of the Civil War in relation to Illinois. Although no battles were fought there, the state contributed many regiments.
Other
Photographer's Diary April 20 30, 1975: Fall of Saigon
Read the detailed personal account of the fall of Saigon in 1975 by experienced photojournalist Dirck Halstead of Time magazine. Provides an individual's perspective as well as reporting important political and military events in a...
Scholastic
Scholastic: The Underground Railroad: Escape From Slavery
Imagine being a slave escaping from the South in 1860, and heading to freedom through the underground railroad. Students will hear from first-person accounts and investigate other primary sources from the 1800s.
Ibis Communications
Eye Witness to History: U Boat Attack, 1916
This article provides an overview of the use of submarines in WWI with many images. Contains the first-person account of a U-Boat commander's attack on a ship.
PBS
Pbs: Literature & Life: From Freedom to Slavery
Some of the African-American writers and poets who spoke out eloquently about their experiences of slavery in the 1700s and 1800s are featured in this section of Literature & Life. Read powerful first-person accounts of Harriet...
New York Times
New York Times: Destroying a Family,destroying a Village
Shows what is happening to families and villages in Darfur. Maps and images show what is actually happening with real people. Gives a first person account from a 75 year old man.
New York Times
New York Times: Baghdad's Survivors
This interactive resource communicates the catastrophic effect that the war in Iraq has had on the Iraqi civilian population. It gives first person accounts that are translated for ease of following along with the audio. (23 July 2006)
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This is the full text of the nine-book epic novel/poem Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; it is a first-person account by the title character Aurora Leigh.
Library of Congress
Loc: Puerto Rico at Dawn of the Modern Age
This site provides a collection that portrays the early history of the commonwealth of Puerto Rico through first-person accounts, political writings, and histories drawn from the Library of Congress.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Pea Ridge National Military Park: The Battle of Pea Ridge
An interesting look at the Battle of Pea Ridge. Navigate the information by clicking on the topics where you will find discussion of battleflags, the troops involved, how the troops were supplied, as well as first-person accounts.
Virtual Bangladesh
Virtual Bangladesh: War for Independence
Comprehensive site examining though pictures, news articles, and first person accounts, all aspects of the Bangladesh Declaration of Independence in 1971.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: The Great Pandemic: The United States in 1918 1919
Find out everything you wanted to know about the Great Influenza Pandemic in the United States that began in 1918. This site from the Department of Health and Human Services has information about life in the United States just as the flu...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Reconstruction Sac
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this structured academic controversy, students examine constitutional amendments, a Black Code, a personal account...
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Separated by History
Through personal accounts, photos, and videos this project documents the separation of families in Poland in the years 1939-1989.
Other
The Victors: Soldiers of the Great Patriotic War
The work of a team of Russian historians, writers, designers, and programmers, this multimedia project explores the Eastern Front of World War II in great detail. The title of the site reflects the Russian name for the conflict in the...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Drug Adherence and Resistance
This series of video lectures (in brief clips) and personal accounts stress the importance of drug adherence for patients on drug regimens for the treatment of HIV/AIDS.
Museum of the City of San Francisco
Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco: Fremont Conquest of California
This first-person account by John Bidwell and his dealings with John Fremont in California.