Diaries
Looking for a diary to use a primary source?
The library has many diaries in its collections, and more are available through interlibrary loan. The following tools, bibliographies, and resources will help you find them. If you have any questions, though, please ask a librarian.
- General Search Tools
- Library Catalog
To locate diaries in our collection, do a keyword search and add the word "diaries."
- Example: nurses and civil war and united states and diaries
- WorldCat
To locate diaries, do a keyword search and then add the word "diaries," limiting "diaries" to the subject field.
- Bibliographies
- American Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of Published American Diaries and Journals. 2 vols. Laura Arksey et al. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1983-1985.
Reference R 016.92 A721a
Vol. 1: Diaries Written from 1492 to 1844
Vol. 2: Diaries Written from 1845 to 1980
- And So to Bed: A Bibliography of Diaries Published in English. Patricia Pate Havlice. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1987.
Reference R 016.92 H388a
- British Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of British Diaries Written Between 1442 and 1942. Comp. William Matthews. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1967.
Reference R 016.92 M44b
- British Manuscript Diaries of the Nineteenth Century: An Annotated Listing. John Stuart Batts. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1976.
Reference R 016.92 B336b
- Civil War Diaries and Personal Narratives, 1960-1994: A Selected Bibliography of Books in the General Collections of the Library of Congress. Comp. Albert E. Smith, Jr. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1998.
Government Information Stacks LC 1.12/2:C 49/2
- Civil War Eyewitnesses: An Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles, 1955-1986. Garold L. Cole. Columbia, SC: Univ. of South Carolina, 1988.
Reference R 016.973 C689c
- Civil War Eyewitnesses: An Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles, 1986-1996. Garold L. Cole. Columbia, SC: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 2000.
Reference R 016.973 C689ci
- The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography. David J. Eicher. Chicago, IL: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1997.
Reference R 016.973 E34c
Contains entries for correspondence and narratives as well as lists of many secondary sources.
- The Published Diaries and Letters of American Women: An Annotated Bibliography. Joyce Goodfriend. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1987.
Reference R 016.92 G651p
- Notable Collections in the Library
- American Women's Diaries [microfilm]
Microfilm cabinet C-2
This collection includes handwritten diaries from the colonial period through the beginning of the twentieth century. It is in three parts: New England Women (8 diaries), Southern Women (32 diaries), and Western Women (600 diaries).
Guide: Segment 1, New England Women: Reference R 016.973 A5121n
Guide: Segment 2, Southern Women: Reference R 016.973 A5121s
Guide: Segment 3, Western Women: Reference R 016.973 A5121w
- North American Women's Letters & Diaries
This collection provides the full text of letters, diaries, and excerpts of diaries from the colonial era to the mid twentieth century. The texts were written contemporaneously; memoirs are not included.
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