Diary of America : the intimate story of our nation, told by 100 diarists--public figures and plain citizens, natives and visitors--over the five centuries from Columbus, the Pilgrims, and George Washington to Thomas Edison, Will Rogers, and our own time
Land! / Lost Colony of Roanoke / Pilgrims find a home / City of New York / Judge atones for the sin of Salem / Venturesome journey of a Boston schoolma'am / Coffeehouse characters / Diversions of a diplomat / Major Washington earns a promotion / For one Indian scalp / When Pittsburgh was a trading post / Quaker disarms the warriors / whimiscal "Daughter of Liberty" -- facts of gracious living in Virginia / Fare overseas : four years of a man's life / British Lothario goes home
Boston Massacre / How Patrick Henry made the speech / Washington is named to command / Redcoats end a visit to Boston / Tory on a tightrope / Sergeant Smith's subversive turkeys / John Paul Jones invades Great Britain / Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown / Gadfly in the Senate / Pa gets a new coat / Alexander Hamilton loses a duel / Expatriate Burr comes home / Andrew Jackson reads the law to the South / London's darling is vexed / Life in Old Natchez / Davy Crockett at the Alamo / Farmer Brown keeps up with his chores / Metropolis in the making / Little girl in glass and gold / What they used to do at college / Thoreau describes his neighbors for posterity / Tale of two authors / Newcomer to the land of promise / Boy meets etc. girl
Ship Columbia finds a noble river / Lewis and Clark go west to the sea / On the Santa Fe Trail / Buffalo hunters / Smallpox in Dakota / Parkman hits the Oregon Trail / "First woman to cross the plains" / Donner train is trapped in the high Sierra / Gold in California! / Missourian in the Gold Rush / Coronado's successors / Pioneer woman's busy trip to the Northwest / Riding herd on the Texas longhorns / Blackest crime on American soil" / California's gold fever dies hard
Dedication to a proposition -- J.Q. Adams wins a fight for freedom / Visitor to America witnesses a sale / Slave is dragged back to the South / Cry from the heart of a Black girl / Death races the governor of Kansas / Lincoln's unfading old soldier / Federals are routed at Bull Run / Lady spy of Capitol Hill / Lee loses at Gettysburg / Horror at Andersonville / Death of Abraham Lincoln / Booth learns he is not a hero / Bad news at the old plantation / Walt Whitman sums up for the dead
New Frontiers for Old -- Horace Greeley goes West / Captain Joshua quits the sea / Mad pace on Mississippi / Sad plight of the whaleship Minnesota / Litle Laura goes a-whaling / East and West are linked by rail / New York in the postwar years / Chicago girl's home burns / British lad sees the wild west / Mr. Edison's unuseful inventions
Of Recent memory -- Wall street tells Barron / Yank at St. Mihiel / War in the air / Wilson signs the Treaty of Versailes / Visiting VIP is misunderstood / Journalist fights for Sacco and Vanzetti / "Our own Samuel Pepys" / Cowboy looks at Congress / For the people, a new deal / Diary of a suburban housewife / Dehind the advertisements / Vingar Joe and the peanut / GIs invade Hitler's Europe / Magic of Manhattan / David S. Kogan.
Berger, Josef, 1903-
Berger, Dorothy.
Christopher Columbus -- John White -- William Bradford and Edward Winslow -- Jasper Danckaerts -- Samuel Sewall -- Sarah Kemble Knight -- Alexander Hamilton -- William Black -- George Washington -- James Cargill -- James Kenny -- John Woolman -- Philip Vickers Fithian -- John Harrower -- Nicholas Cresswell.
John Tudor -- William Winstan Fontaine -- John Adams -- Timothy Newell -- James Allen -- John Smith -- Ezra Green and John Paul Jones -- James Thacher -- William Maclay -- Elizabeth Morris -- Gouverneur Morris -- Aaron Burr -- John Early -- John Floyd -- Fanny Kemble -- William Johnson -- David Crockett -- William R. Brown -- Philip Hone -- Catherine Elizabeth Havens -- Joseph Cleaver, Jr. -- Henry David Thoreau -- Amos Bronson Alcott and Louisa May Alcott -- Jacob Saul Lanzit -- Lester Frank Ward.
John Boit -- Meriwether Lewis and William Clark -- Alphonso Wetmore -- George Catlin -- Francis Auguste Chardon -- Francis Parkman -- Susan Shelby Magoffin -- Patrick Breen and James Frazier Reed -- Walter Colton -- Bennett C. Clark -- James Henry Carleton -- Amelia Stewart Knight -- James G. Bell -- John Doyle Lee -- William Henry Brewer.
John Quincy Adams -- William Charles Macready -- Charlotte L. Forten -- Andrew H. Reeder -- Ethan Allen Hitchock -- William Howard Russell -- The Rose O'Neal Greenhow -- Arthur James Lyon Fremantle -- John L. Ransom -- Godeon Welles -- John Wilkes Booth -- Mary Boykin Chesnut -- Walt Whitman.
Horace Greeley -- Joshua Sears -- Charles Francis Adams, Jr. -- Clothier Peirce -- Laura Jernegan -- Silas Seymour -- George Templeton Strong -- Julia Newberry -- Sidford Hamp -- Thomas Alva Edison.
Clarence W. Barron -- Elmer W. Sherwood -- an unknown aviator -- Edith Benham Helm -- Clare Consuelo Sheridan -- Heywood Broun -- Franklin Pierce Adams -- Will Rogers -- Harold L. Ickes -- Dorothy Blake -- James Webb Young -- Joseph W. Stilwell -- George Groh --
Edited by Josef and Dorothy Berger.
Diary of America : the intimate story of our nation, told by 100 diarists--public figures and plain citizens, natives and visitors--over the five centuries from Columbus, the Pilgrims, and George Washington to Thomas Edison, Will Rogers, and our own time
