Their Own Words
is a digital collection of books, pamphlets, letters, and diaries,
dating from the latter eighteenth through the early twentieth
century, that reflects the history of the United States. This
collection currently contains more than 34,500 individual
pages
of text and corresponding transcriptions, covering a variety
of topics, including: colonial American politics; U.S. politics,
government, and foreign relations; historical biography and autobiography;
slavery and abolition; the American Civil War; the temperance
movement; foreign travel; economics; medicine; philosophy; and
theology. This online resource is made freely available, and
we
believe that it will be of value to teachers, students, and researchers
at all levels of instruction.
Their Own Words was supported in part
by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions
of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in association with Dickinson
College and the Dickinson Electronic Initiative in the Liberal
Arts (deila).
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