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Diaries and Letters in the Library Stacks: 1900-2015

Diaries and Letters 1900-2015

The Duty of Delight: the diaries of Dorothy Day by Dorothy Day; Robert Ellsberg
Call Number: 261.83092 D33d

ISBN: 0874620236

Publication Date: 2008-04-01
From the Diary of a Counterrevolutionary by Pavel Kohout
Call Number: 320.9437 K827f

Intervention in Czechoslovakia (1968)
The Courage to Stand Alone: letters from prison and other writings by Jingsheng Wei
Call Number: 323.0951 W424

Publication Date: 1998-08-01
Ambassador Dodd's diary, 1933-1938
Call Number: 327.73 D661a
The Kennan Diaries by George F. Kennan; Frank Costigliola (Editor)
Call Number: 327.73 K361k

Publication Date: 2014-02-16

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.
Thank You, Madagascar: the conservation diaries of Alison Jolly by Alison Jolly; Hilary Bradt (Foreword by)
Call Number: 333.72092 J68t

Publication Date: 2016-03-15
The Family Letters of Victor and Meta Berger, 1894-1929 by Michael E. Stevens (Editor); Ellen D. Goldlust-Gingrich (Editor)
Call Number: 335.092 B453A1

Publication Date: 1995-12-15
War Letters: extraordinary correspondence from American wars by Andrew Carroll; Douglas Brinkley (Foreword by)
Call Number: 355.009 W195

Publication Date: 2002-05-01
Diary of a Harlem schoolteacher. by James Haskins
Call Number: 379.2 H273d

Publication Date: 1969
Dear Professor Dyson: twenty years of correspondence between Freeman Dyson and undergraduate students on science, technology, society and life by Freeman J. Dyson; Dwight E. Neuenschwander
Call Number: 530.092 D99n

Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Keith Haring Journals by Robert F. Thompson (Introduction by); Julia Gruen (Afterword by, Foreword by); Keith Haring; David Hockney (Preface by)
Call Number: 709.2 H224

Publication Date: 1996-07-01
Daybook: the journey of an artist by Anne Truitt
Call Number: 709.2 T769

Publication Date: 1984-03-06
Charles Burchfield's Journals by Charles Ephraim Burchfield; J. Benjamin Townsend
Call Number: 759.12 B893c

Publication Date: 1993-01-01
The Andy Warhol diaries by Andy Warhol, Pat. Hackett
Call Number: 759.12 W232 H
Daybooks of Edward Weston by Edward Weston
Call Number: 770 W528d

Publication Date: 1973-01-01

volume I. Mexico -- volume II. California.
The Nantucket Diary, 1973 to 1985 by Ned Rorem
Call Number: 780.92 R692A1

Publication Date: 1987-10-01
Dearest Bubushkin: the correspondence of Vera and Igor Stravinsky, 1921-1954, with excerpts from Vera Stravinsky's diaries, 1922-1971
Call Number: 780.92 St82d

Publication Date: 1985-10-01
The Olympics of 1972: a Munich diary by Richard D. Mandell
Call Number: 796.48 M312o

Publication Date: 1991-08-01
Journals: early fifties, early sixties by Allen Ginsberg
Call Number: 811 G435X1

Publication Date: 1977-01-01
Dreiser's Russian Diary by Thomas P. Riggio (Editor); James L. W. West (Editor); Theodore Dreiser
Call Number: 813 D814X2

Publication Date: 1996-09-01
Past Tense: diaries by Jean Cocteau; Richard Howard (Translator); Ned Rorem (Introduction by)
Call Number: 848 C647p

Publication Date: 1987-02-01
1920 Diary by Isaak Bábel; Carol J. Avins (Editor, Introduction by, Notes by); H. T. Willetts (Translator)
Call Number: 891.73 B115n

Publication Date: 1995-04-26

The 1920 Diary is the most significant contemporary account of the tragedy of Eastern European Jewry during this period.
A Warsaw Diary: 1978-1981 by Kazimierz Brandys; Richard Lourie (Translator)
Call Number: 891.85 B734w

Publication Date: 1984-10-01
The complete Bolivian diaries of Ché Guevara, and other captured documents. by Che Guevara
Call Number: 920 G939

Publication Date: 1968
A long row of candles; memoirs and diaries, 1934-1954 by Sulzberger, C. L.
Call Number: 920 Su59

Publication Date: 1969

The author's experiences as a correspondent for the New York Times based in Europe during World War II and its immediate aftermath.
Good-Bye to Old Peking: the wartime letters of U.S. Marine Captain John Seymour Letcher, 1937-1939 by John Seymour Letcher; Roger B. Jeans (Contribution by); Katie Letcher Lyle (Contribution by)
Call Number: 940.5425 L568g

Publication Date: 1998-04-01
Token of a covenant; diary of an East Prussian surgeon, 1945-47.
Call Number: 940.5475 L528t

Diaries and Letters 1900-2015

Nella Last's Peace by Nella Last
Call Number: 941.085 L33ne

Publication Date: 2009

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.
Spandau : the secret diaries by Albert Speer
Call Number: 943.086 Sp32s

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 Prison by Milan Simecka; Gerald Turner (Translator); Václav Havel (Foreword by); Jirina Siklova (Introduction by); Vilem Precan (Afterword by)
Call Number: 943.7 Si4l

Publication Date: 2002-03-01
Madrid 1937: letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade from the Spanish Civil War by Cary Nelson (Editor); Jefferson Hendricks (Editor)
Call Number: 946.081 M26

Publication Date: 1996-03-28

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.
Sarajevo: a war journal by Zlatko Dizdarevic; Anselm Hollo (Translator); Robert J. Lifton (Foreword by)
Call Number: 949.7 D648s

Publication Date: 1993-11-01
Nanking Letters 1949 by Knight Biggerstaff
Call Number: 951.042 B483n

Publication Date: 1999-07-01
The Good Man of Nanking: the diaries of John Rabe by John Rabe
Call Number: 951.042 R11g

Publication Date: 2000
A Young Palestinian's Diary, 1941-1945 by Kimberly Katz (Edited and Translated by); Salim Tamari (Foreword by)
Call Number: 956.94 Am76y

Publication Date: 2010-05-01
Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation by Cate Malek (Editor); Mateo Hoke (Editor)
Call Number: 956.94 P17

Publication Date: 2014-11-11
Voices from Vietnam by Michael E. Stevens (Editor); Ellen D. Goldlust-Gingrich (Editor); A. Kristen Foster (Editor); Regan Rhea (Editor)
Call Number: 959.704 V87

Publication Date: 1996-12-15
Journal, 1955-1962: reflections on the French-Algerian War by Mouloud Feraoun; Mary Ellen Wolf (Translator); Claude Fouillade (Translator); James D. Le Sueur (Editor, Introduction by)
Call Number: 965 F37j

Publication Date: 2000-06-01

Account of everyday life in Algeria during decolonization.
Ignacio: the diary of a Maya Indian of Guatemala by James D. Sexton (Edited and Translated by)
Call Number: 970.72 B551i

Publication Date: 1992-02-01
Montana 1911: a professor and his wife among the Blackfeet : Wilhelmina Maria Uhlenbeck-Melchior's diary and C.C. Uhlenbeck's original Blackfoot texts and a new series of Blackfoot texts by Alice Kehoe (Contribution by); Inge Genee (Contribution by); Klaas Van Berkel (Contribution by)
Call Number: 970.765 M76

Publication Date: 2005-09-07
Diary of the Cuban Revolution by Carlos Franqui; Elaine Kerrigan (Translator)
Call Number: 972.91 F856d

Cuba, 1933 - 1959
Wounded Knee 1973 by Stanley David Lyman; Floyd A. O'Neil (Editor); June K. Lyman; Susan McKay (Editor); Alvin M. Josephy (Foreword by)
Call Number: 973.8 L989w

Publication Date: 1993-09-01

American Indian Movement (AIM) activists' occupation of the village of Wounded Knee.
My Dear Mr. Stalin: the complete correspondence between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin by Arthur M. Schlesinger (Foreword by); Susan Butler (Editor); Franklin D. Roosevelt
Call Number: 973.917 R677m

Publication Date: 2006-01-10
The Haldeman Diaries: inside the Nixon White House by H. R. Haldeman; Stephen E. Ambrose (Afterword by, Introduction by)
Call Number: 973.924 H12h

Publication Date: 1994
The China Diary of George H.W. Bush by Jeffrey A. Engel (Editor); George H. W. Bush (Preface by)
Call Number: 973.928 B963A2

Publication Date: 2008-05-04

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.
Letters from the Front, 1898-1945 by Michael E. Stevens
Call Number: 977.5 L569

Publication Date: 1992-12-15

Shares the stories of men and women from Wisconsin who served in the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II.
I Do Not Apologize for the Length of This Letter: the Mari Sandoz letters on Native American rights, 1940-1965 by Kimberli A. Lee (Editor)
Call Number: 978 Sa57i

Publication Date: 2009

Documents Sandoz's role as a non-Native chronicler and advocate for Plains Indian cultures.
Dust Bowl Diary by Ann Marie Low; Ann Low
Call Number: 978.4 L95d

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

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