Journals, Diaries, & Letters.
* Journals, Diaries, & Letters.
Journals, Diaries, & Letters:
On July 4th 1994, cancer took away the most important person in the world to me, my mom. Marilyn was dead of cancer at the age of 39. My name is Charanna, Marilyn's one and only child. I am also a member of "The UnWritten" ThinkQuest team. My mom was a beautiful, caring woman who died of a horrible disease that many times tried to bring down the wonderful, cheerful spirit that she was known for. Until the end, my mom was a fighter..........
To read the whole story click on the title below to open the photo - story window. There I have also posted some parts of my mother's journal. When you close the story window you will still be here.
1985, My mother (Marilyn) and me (Charanna)
A personal letter written long ago can bring the past into focus. By combining a personal letter with a photograph and then adding other information your photo-story can become a great experience for those who read it.
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Links of Interest:
PBS Online:
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PBS has a wide range of great educational web sites. Once on the main page click on "History" to get to their large index of PBS history sites. We have listed only two of many.The American Experience | America and the Holocaust:
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This PBS site offers the following topics: timeline, maps, people &events, and a teachers guide. At the "Special Feature" section you can read letters written between Kurt Klein and his family from 1938 to 1942.The American Experience | Gold Fever:
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This PBS site offers a teacher's guide, information about what they brought along, and much more. At the "Greetings from the Klondike" section you can read photo - stories created from letters written from the Klondike during the time of the gold rush.Documenting the American South; First Person Narratives of the American South:
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From this main page select "Collection of Electronic Texts" which will take you to a large collection of letters, journals, and diaries.Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image:
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Virtual facsimiles from the University of Pennsylvania's library collections are located here. Under "Collections" you will find the link to Woman's Studies-Manuscript Diaries where you can read 6 women's diaries from 1850 -1941.Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War:
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Entering will take you to the main page where you will have a choice of three main sections. By selecting "The Eve of the War" you will see an image map where the section of "Letters & Diaries" can be opened. This first page of this section also has links to the rest of the large collection.The Immigration Diary of Michael Friedrich Radke, 1848:
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Read the daily accounts of Michael Friedrich's trip from Prussia / Germany to America in 1848.The Anne Frank Internet Guide:
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A huge list of links to sites dedicated to Anne Frank and her diary.
My Mother's Journal
