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Vendor:

Alexander Street Press

Brief Description:

In the First Person indexes first person narratives from the 1550s to the present from hundreds of published volumes--those that are publicly available on the Web and those that are held by repositories and archives around the world.

Full Description:

In the First Person is an index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. It provides keyword searching of 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. Here you can search and explore the personal thoughts of thousands of individuals from all walks of life and through hundreds of years of history. It's a unique tool that can search such a broad swathe of human thought so easily.

Update Frequency:

Quarterly

Coverage:

From 1550s to the present

Number & Type of Contents:

The index contains approximately 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral history entries from more than 18,000 individuals.

Geographic Focus:

Worldwide

Tools Available:

A Help Web site is available.

Formats:

Electronic Resource

Type:

Primary Sources

Subjects:

American History, Arts & Humanities, History, Social Sciences

Liaison:

S. Tritt

URL:

http://www.inthefirstperson.com/