Diary of America : the intimate story of our nation, told by 100 diarists -- public figures and plain citizens, natives and visitors -- over the five centuries from Columbus, the Pilgrims, and George Washington to Thomas Edison, Will Rogers... / Edited by Josef and Dorothy Berger.

Contributor Berger, Josef, 1903-1971.

Imprint:New York : Simon and Schuster, 1957.

Description621 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:1. The New World -- Land! / Christopher Columbus -- The Lost Colony of Roanoke / John White -- The Pilgrims find a home / William Bradford and Edward Winslow -- The City of New York / Jasper Danckaerts -- A Judge atones for the sin of Salem / Samuel Sewall -- Venturesome journey of a Boston schoolma'am / Sarah Kemble Knight -- Coffeehouse characters / Alexander Hamilton -- Diversions of a diplomat / William Black -- Major Washington earns a promotion / George Washington -- For one Indian scalp -- 2. The New Nation -- The Boston Massacre / John Tudor -- How Patrick Henry made the speech / William Winstan Fontaine -- Washington is named to command / John Adams -- The Redcoats end a visit to Boston / Timothy Newell -- Tory on a tightrope / James Allen -- Sergeant Smith's subversive turkeys / John Smith -- John Paul Jones invades Great Britain / Ezra Green and John Paul Jones -- Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown / James Thacher -- Gadfly in the Senate / William Maclay -- Pa gets a new coat / Elizabeth Morris -- Alexander Hamilton loses a duel / Gouverneur Morris -- Expatriate Burr comes home / Aaron Burr -- The Devil is given a hard time in Virginia / John Early -- Andrew Jackson reads the law to the South / John Floyd -- London's darling is vexed / Fanny Kemble -- Life in Old Natchez / William Johnson -- Davy Crockett at the Alamo / David Crockett -- Farmer Brown keeps up with his chores / William R. Brown -- Metropolis in the making / Philip Hone -- The Little girl in glass and gold / Catherine Elizabeth Havens -- What they used to do at college / Joseph Cleaver, Jr. -- Thoreau describes his neighbors for posterity / Henry David Thoreau -- A Tale of two authors / Amos Bronson Alcott and Louisa May Alcott -- Newcomer to the land of promise / Jacob Saul Lanzit -- Boy meets etc. girl / Lester Frank Ward -- 3. Westward the course -- Ship Columbia finds a noble river / John Boit -- Lewis and Clark go west to the sea / Meriwether Lewis and William Clark -- On the Santa Fe Trail / Alphonso Wetmore -- The Buffalo hunters / George Catlin -- Smallpox in Dakota / Francis Auguste Chardon -- Parkman hits the Oregon Trail / Francis Parkman -- "First woman to cross the plains" / Susan Shelby Magoffin -- The Donner train is trapped in the high Sierra / Patrick Breen and James Frazier Reed -- Gold in California! / Walter Colton -- A Missourian in the Gold Rush / Bennett C. Clark -- Coronado's successors / James Henry Carleton -- A Pioneer woman's busy trip to the Northwest / Amelia Stewart Knight -- Riding herd on the Texas longhorns / James G. Bell -- "The Blackest crime on American soil" / John Doyle Lee -- California's gold fever dies hard / William Henry Brewer -- 4. Dedication to a proposition -- J.Q. Adams wins a fight for freedom / John Quincy Adams -- A Visitor to America witnesses a sale / William Charles Macready -- A Slave is dragged back to the South / Richard Henry Dana -- Cry from the heart of a Black girl / Charlotte L. Forten -- Death races the governor of Kansas / Andrew H. Reeder -- Lincoln's unfading old soldier / Ethan Allen Hitchock -- The Federals are routed at Bull Run / William Howard Russell -- The Lady spy of Capitol Hill / Rose O'Neal Greenhow -- Lee loses at Gettysburg / Arthur James Lyon Fremantle -- Horror at Andersonville / John L. Ransom -- The Death of Abraham Lincoln / Godeon Welles -- Booth learns he is not a hero / John Wilkes Booth -- Bad news at the old plantation / Mary Boykin Chesnut -- Walt Whitman sums up for the dead / Walt Whitman -- 5. New Frontiers for Old -- Horace Greeley goes West / Horace Greeley -- Captain Joshua quits the sea / Joshua Sears -- Mad pace on Mississippi / Charles Francis Adams, Jr. -- Sad plight of the whaleship Minnesota / Clothier Peirce -- Litle Laura goes a-whaling / Laura Jernegan -- East and West are linked by rail / Silas Seymour -- New York in the postwar years / George Templeton Strong -- A Chicago girl's home burns / Julia Newberry -- A British lad sees the wild west / Sidford Hamp -- Mr. Edison's unuseful inventions / Thomas Alva Edison -- 6. Of Recent memory -- Wall street tells Barron / Clarence W. Barron -- A Yank at St. Mihiel / Elmer W. Sherwood -- War in the air / an unknown aviator -- Wilson signs the Treaty of Versailes / Edith Benham Helm -- A Visiting VIP is misunderstood / Clare Consuelo Sheridan -- A Journalist fights for Sacco and Vanzetti / Heywood Broun -- "Our own Samuel Pepys" / Franklin Pierce Adams -- A Cowboy looks at Congress / Will Rogers -- For the people, a new deal / Harold L. Ickes -- Diary of a suburban housewife / Dorothy Blake -- Dehind the advertisements / James Webb Young -- Vingar Joe and the peanut / Joseph W. Stilwell -- The GIs invade Hitler's Europe / George Groh -- The Magic of Manhattan / Simone de Beauvoir -- The Abundant life of a boy / David S. Kogan

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