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An index to letters, diaries, oral histories, and personal narratives.

In the First Person is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. It lets you keyword search more than 700,000 pages of full-text by more than 18,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 4,300 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records. The index contains approximately 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral history entries.

The author William Faulkner appears to have drawn the names of characters and other inspiration from a plantation diary just discovered by scholars.

The society continues to add to its online document collection at Scribd. Collection includes maps, diary transcriptions and other publications.

This World Wide Web site presents primary source material from the Civil War era in Illinois. These materials include letters, diaries and reminiscences of Union soldiers. But they also include important documents, images, and other resources from the home front.