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In the First Person : Information at a Glance

Resource Type
Primary documents - text, sound, video
Subject Area
History
Availability
This resource is freely available on the web and does not require proxy access.
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Description

In the First Person is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. Here you can search and explore the personal thoughts of thousands of individuals from all walks of life and through hundreds of years of history. It's a unique tool that can search such a broad swathe of human thought so easily.

It lets you keyword search more than 650,000 pages of full-text by more than 15,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 3,500 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records.

The index contains approximately 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral history entries.

(from the homepage)

Notes
Approximately 25% of the index points to materials that are in copyright. These materials are not available without a subscription. Trent does not currently subscribe.
Coverage
historical
Update Frequency
n/a
 
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Last modified: April 27, 2007
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