Diaries and Letters in the Library Stacks: 1900-2015

Intervention in Czechoslovakia (1968)

The annotated diaries of the influential American diplomat and foreign policy strategist spans ninety years of U.S. history while sharing his insights into Depression-era capitalism, the Cold War, and his literary achievements.

volume I. Mexico -- volume II. California.

The 1920 Diary is the most significant contemporary account of the tragedy of Eastern European Jewry during this period.

The author's experiences as a correspondent for the New York Times based in Europe during World War II and its immediate aftermath.

Picking up where 'Nella Last's War' left off, this moving and often comic diary tells the story of her post-war struggles and describes what ordinary people felt during those years of privation, hope and rebuilding.

These prison diaries of Hitler's chief architect and Minister of Armament and War Production couple a record of his 20 year incarceration in Spandau Prison along with Hess, Shirach, Doenitz, et al. with his recollections of the Third Reich.

Letters from Americans who took up arms and confronted Hitler's Condor Legion, Mussolini's Black Shirts, and Franco's fascist cavalry on the battlefields of Spain.

Account of everyday life in Algeria during decolonization.

Cuba, 1933 - 1959

American Indian Movement (AIM) activists' occupation of the village of Wounded Knee.

As head of the United States Liaison Office in Beijing from 1974 to 1975, Bush witnessed high-level policy deliberations and daily social interactions between the two Cold War superpowers.

Shares the stories of men and women from Wisconsin who served in the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II.

Documents Sandoz's role as a non-Native chronicler and advocate for Plains Indian cultures.

The author recounts her experiences growing up in North Dakota from 1928 to 1937 the years of the Dust bowl and Depression.