Download or read book Emilie Davis s Civil War written by Judith Giesberg and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-06-08 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emilie Davis was a free African American woman who lived in Philadelphia during the Civil War. She worked as a seamstress, attended the Institute for Colored Youth, and was an active member of her community. She lived an average life in her day, but what sets her apart is that she kept a diary. Her daily entries from 1863 to 1865 touch on the momentous and the mundane: she discusses her own and her community’s reactions to events of the war, such as the Battle of Gettysburg, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the assassination of President Lincoln, as well as the minutiae of social life in Philadelphia’s black community. Her diaries allow the reader to experience the Civil War in “real time” and are a counterpoint to more widely known diaries of the period. Judith Giesberg has written an accessible introduction, situating Davis and her diaries within the historical, cultural, and political context of wartime Philadelphia. In addition to furnishing a new window through which to view the war’s major events, Davis’s diaries give us a rare look at how the war was experienced as a part of everyday life—how its dramatic turns and lulls and its pervasive, agonizing uncertainty affected a northern city with a vibrant black community.
Download or read book How to Read a Diary written by Desirée Henderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Read a Diary is an expansive and accessible guidebook that introduces readers to the past, present, and future of diary writing. Grounded in examples from around the globe and from across history, this book explores the provocative questions diaries pose to readers: Are they private? Are they truthful? Why do some diarists employ codes? Do more women than men write diaries? How has the format changed in the digital age? In answering questions like these, How to Read a Diary offers a new critical vocabulary for interpreting diaries. Readers learn how to analyze diary manuscripts, identify the conventions of diary writing, examine the impact of technology on the genre, and appreciate the myriad personal and political motives that drive diary writing. Henderson also presents the diary’s extensive influence upon literary history, ranging from masterpieces of world literature to young adult novels, graphic novels, and comics. How to Read a Diary invites readers to discover the rich and compelling stories that individuals tell about themselves within the pages of their diaries.
Download or read book The Diary written by Batsheva Ben-Amos and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diary as a genre is found in all literate societies, and these autobiographical accounts are written by persons of all ranks and positions. The Diary offers an exploration of the form in its social, historical, and cultural-literary contexts with its own distinctive features, poetics, and rhetoric. The contributors to this volume examine theories and interpretations relating to writing and studying diaries; the formation of diary canons in the United Kingdom, France, United States, and Brazil; and the ways in which handwritten diaries are transformed through processes of publication and digitization. The authors also explore different diary formats, including the travel diary, the private diary, conflict diaries written during periods of crisis, and the diaries of the digital era, such as blogs. The Diary offers a comprehensive overview of the genre, synthesizing decades of interdisciplinary study to enrich our understanding of, research about, and engagement with the diary as literary form and historical documentation.
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Download or read book Notes from a Colored Girl written by Karsonya Wise Whitehead and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical biography provides a scholarly analysis of the personal diaries of a young, freeborn mulatto woman during the Civil War years. In Notes from a Colored Girl, Karsonya Wise Whitehead examines the life and experiences of Emilie Frances Davis through a close reading of three pocket diaries she kept from 1863 to 1865. Whitehead explores Davis’s worldviews and politics, her perceptions of both public and private events, her personal relationships, and her place in Philadelphia’s free black community in the nineteenth century. The book also includes a six-chapter historical reconstruction of Davis’s life. While Davis’s entries provide brief, daily snapshots of her life, Whitehead interprets them in ways that illuminate nineteenth-century black American women’s experiences. Whitehead’s contribution of edited text and original narrative fills a void in scholarly documentation of women who dwelled in spaces between white elites, black entrepreneurs, and urban dwellers of every race and class. Drawing on scholarly traditions from history, literature, feminist studies, and sociolinguistics, Whitehead investigates Davis’s diary both as a complete literary artifact and in terms of her specific daily entries. With few primary sources written by black women during this time in history, Davis’s diary is a rare and extraordinarily valuable historical artifact.
Download or read book Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the National Convention of the Woman s Relief Corps written by Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.). National Convention and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Convention of the Women s Relief Corps Department of Wisconsin written by Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.). Department of Wisconsin and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Senate of the State of South Carolina Being the Sessions of written by South Carolina. General Assembly. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Journal of the National Convention of the Woman s Relief Corps Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic written by Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.). National Convention and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Printing office at Strawberry Hill written by Horace Walpole and published by London : Printed at the Chiswick Press for Constable limited London and Houghton Mifflin Company Boston. This book was released on 1923 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Journal of the Board of Education of the City of New York written by New York (N.Y.). Board of Education and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Senate of the United States of America written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Society for Psychical Research written by Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
