Digital Archives: Diaries

Run a search for 'diary' in the search interface to see a list of the thousands of diaries and related materials that are available or browse through specific sections.

Transcriptions of narratives collected under the direction of the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1939, and initially published under the title Slave Narratives: a folk history of slavery in the United States from interviews with former slaves.

Resource from the University of North Carolina. Collections include "First-Person Narratives of the American South," "North American Slave Narratives," and "True and Candid Compositions: The Lives and Writings of Antebellum Students at the University of North Carolina." The included narratives cover the late eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Run a search for 'diary' in the search interface to see a list of the hundreds of diaries and related materials that are available or browse through specific sections.

Fulltext of letters and diaries, published and manuscript, of American women during the Colonial period through 1950.

"The Valley Project details life in two American communities, one Northern and one Southern, from the time of John Brown's Raid through the era of Reconstruction. In this digital archive, you may explore thousands of original letters and diaries, newspapers and speeches, census and church records, left by men and women in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania." To search just diaries, click on "Letters & Diaries" in the appropriate time period and then "Search the Letters & Diaries." You will then see an option to search only diaries.