A World War One rifleman's harrowing pocket diary details the solemn reality of life fighting on the frontline. Rifleman Timothy Elliott went over the top with the 9th Battalion City of London Queen ...
Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Gettysburg, June-July, 1863. | Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) These are all under 140 characters and could ...
"In Notes from a Colored Girl, Karsonya Wise Whitehead examines the life and experiences of Emilie Frances Davis, a freeborn twenty-one-year-old mulatto woman, through a close reading of three pocket ...
“To day has bin a memorable day,” Emilie Frances Davis wrote in a miniature diary on Jan. 1, 1863, the date the Emancipation Proclamation became law. “I thank God I have bin here to see it. The day ...
A Bridget Jones-style pocket diary detailing the highs and lows of a young woman in the roaring 1920s has been discovered among donations to a charity shop. The leather-bound diary, written in pencil, ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Mora mentions the classes he is ...
The Archives digitized Peale's diary and is seeking help transcribing it. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution The exhibition curators found that teenagers a century ago were not unlike ...