Dear America

Colonial Period (1600s-1776)

A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620

I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembly, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1691

Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl

Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catherine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763

American Revolution (1774-1783)

Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson, Greenmarsh, Massachusetts, 1774

The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777

Cannons at Dawn: The Second Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1779

Westward Expansion (1807-1910)

A Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence, Gonzales, Texas, 1836

Valley of the Moon: The Diary of María Rosalia de Milagros, Sonoma Valley, Alta California, 1846

Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, The Oregon Trail, 1847

All the Stars in the Sky: The Santa Fe Trail Diary of Florrie Mack Ryder, The Santa Fe Trail, 1848

Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild, California Territory, 1849

The Great Railroad Race: The Diary of Libby West, Utah Territory, 1868

Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, an English Girl in Minnesota, New Yeovil, Minnesota, 1873

Behind the Masks: The Diary of Angeline Reddy, Bodie, California, 1880

My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher, Broken Bow, Nebraska, 1881

West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi, New York to Idaho Territory, 1883

Civil War/Slavery (1859-1865)

A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia, 1859

A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861

When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865

Native American

The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl, New Mexico, 1864

My Heart Is on the Ground: The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl, Carlisle Indian School, Pennsylvania, 1880

19th & 20th Century Immigration

So Far from Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847

A Coal Miner’s Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896

Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903

(20th C. Disaster) A City Tossed and Broken: The Diary of Minnie Bonner, San Francisco, California, 1906

Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City, 1909

(20th C. Disaster) Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, RMS Titanic, 1912

World War I (1917-1918)

A Time for Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C., 1917

When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer, New York City to the Western Front, 1917

Like the Willow Tree: The Diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce, Portland, Maine, 1918

Great Depression (1929-1939)

Christmas After All: The Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1932

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Diary of Bess Brennan, Perkins School for the Blind, 1932

Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards, Dalhart, Texas, 1935

World War II (1938-1945)

One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss, Vienna, Austria to New York, 1938

Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941

The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941

My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York, 1941

Civil Rights (1954-1968)

(Early) Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North, Chicago, Illinois, 1919

With the Might of Angels: The Diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson, Hadley, Virginia, 1954

Vietnam War (1955-1975)

Where Have All the Flowers Gone? The Diary of Molly MacKenzie Flaherty, Boston, Massachusetts, 1968