Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online

Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online allows cross-searching of several Alexander Street primary source collections:

• American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
• Black Thought and Culture
• British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
• Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries
• North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries
• Oral History Online

These databases include correspondence, autobiographies, interviews, and diaries in English written over the course of more than four centuries. They provide accounts of personal and historic events by men and women from all walks of life.