The diary of Caroline Cowles Richards, a ten-year-old girl who lived in western New York during the 1850s who records her family and school life, clothing, transportation, and views on women's rights. Includes activities and a timeline related to this era.

19th Century Schoolgirl: The Diary of Caroline Cowles Richards, 1852-1855 (Diaries, Letters & Memoirs)

Children's Books

Graves, Kerry A.

Richards, Caroline Cowles

Biographies

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A Confederate Girl: The Diary of Carrie Berry, 1864

Excerpts from the diary of Carrie Berry, describing her family's life in the Confederate south in 1864. Includes activities and a timeline of the era.

A Confederate Girl: The Diary of Carrie Berry, 1864 (Diaries, Letters & Memoirs)

Berry, Carrie

Todd, Anne M.

Excerpts from the diary of Sallie Hester, a fourteen-year-old girl who tells her family's journey along the Oregon-California Trail during 1849-1850. Includes activities and a timeline related to the era.

A Covered Wagon Girl: The Diary of Sallie Hester, 1849-1850 (Diaries, Letters & Memoirs)

Hester, Sallie

Biographies & Memoirs

A Free Black Girl Before the Civil War: The Diary of Charlotte Forten, 1854

The diary of Charlotte Forten, a sixteen-year-old free African American who lived in Massachusettts in 1854 who records her schooling, participation in the anti-slavery movement, and concern for an arrested fugitive slave. Includes activities and a timeline related to this era.

A Free Black Girl Before the Civil War: The Diary of Charlotte Forten, 1854 (Diaries, Letters & Memoirs)

Forten, Charlotte L.

Graves, Kerry

Excerpts from the diary of Sarah Gillispie, a pioneer from Iowa in the nineteenth century. Includes activities and a timeline related to the era.

A Pioneer Farm Girl: The Diary of Sarah Gillespie, 1877-1878 (Diaries, Letters & Memoirs)

Hodgson, Ann

Bunkers, Suzanne L.

Gillespie, Sarah

Huftalen, Sarah Gillespie

Excerpts from the diary of William Bircher, a fifteen-year-old Minnesotan who was a drummer during the Civil War. Includes activities and a timeline of the era.

A Civil War Drummer Boy: The Diary of William Bircher, 1861-1865 (Diaries, Letters & Memoirs)

Sateren, Shelley Swanson

Bircher, William

History

Presents the diary of the sixteen-year-old daughter of a prominent Quaker family who moved with her family from British-occupied Philadelphia for the safety of the countryside during the Revolutionary War. Includes activities and a timeline related to this era.

A Colonial Quaker Girl: The Diary of Sally Wister, 1777-1778 (Diaries, Letters & Memoirs)

Wister, Sarah

Discusses everyday life, cooking methods, foods, and celebrations of Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. Includes recipes.

Civil War Cooking: The Confederacy (Exploring History Through Simple Recipes)

Dosier, Susan

Discusses everyday life, cooking methods, foods, and celebrations of Union soldiers during the Civil War. Includes recipes.

Civil War Cooking: The Union (Exploring History Through Simple Recipes)

Discusses the everyday life, cooking methods, and common foods of cowboys who moved cattle across the American West in the late nineteenth century. Includes recipes.

Cowboy Cooking (Exploring History Through Simple Recipes)

Gunderson, Mary

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