title: The American Journey: United States History Through Letters and Diaries, Volume 1
author: Marsha Markman
description: These 29 eyewitness accounts provide a unique entrance into the diversity of American society. Diaries and letters are the most reliable of firsthand sources, more so than memoirs that are long removed from the fresh experience of the past.
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  Diary in America, Series Two
  
  
    
  
  
    
  [VOLUME ONE, CHAPTER ONE. TRAVELLING.  
  
  
    
  [VOLUME ONE, CHAPTER TWO. TRAVELLING.  
  
  
    
  [VOLUME ONE, CHAPTER THREE. TRAVELLING.  
  
  
    
  [VOLUME ONE, CHAPTER FOUR. TRAVELLING.  
  
  
    
  [VOLUME ONE, CHAPTER FIVE. EMIGRATION AND MIGRATION.  
  
  
    
  [VOLUME ONE, CHAPTER SIX. NEWSPAPER PRESS.  
  
  
    
  [VOLUME ONE, CHAPTER SEVEN. AUTHORS, ETC.  
  
  
    
  [VOLUME ONE, CHAPTER EIGHT. THE MISSISSIPPI.  
  
  
    
  [VOLUME TWO, CHAPTER ONE. SOCIETY—WOMEN.  
  
  
    
  [VOLUME TWO, CHAPTER TWO. PUBLIC OPINION, OR THE MAJORITY.  
  
  
    
  [VOLUME TWO, CHAPTER THREE. PATRIOTISM.  
  
  
    
  [VOLUME TWO, CHAPTER FOUR. ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES.  
  
  
    
  [VOLUME TWO, CHAPTER FIVE. SOCIETY.—GENERAL CHARACTER, ETCETERA.  
  
  
    
  [VOLUME TWO, CHAPTER SIX. ARISTOCRACY.  
  
  
    
  [VOLUME TWO, CHAPTER SEVEN. GOVERNMENT.  
  
  
    
  [VOLUME TWO, CHAPTER EIGHT.  
  
  
    
  [VOLUME TWO, CHAPTER NINE.  
  
  
    
  [VOLUME TWO, CHAPTER TEN.  
  
  
    
  [VOLUME TWO, CHAPTER ELEVEN.  
  
  
    
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