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Making Sense of Letters and Diaries
Making Sense of Letters and Diaries Steven Stowe (From the Making Sense of Evidence series on History Matters: The Survey on the Web located at ). In an attic or an online archive, coming across personal correspondence and Diaries can open a tantalizing window into past lives. This guide offers an overview of Letters and Diaries as historical sources and how historians use them, tips on what questions to ask when reading these personal texts, an annotated bibliography, and a guide to finding and using Letters and Diaries online. Steven Stowe teaches history at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of Intimacy and Power in the Old South (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987) and, most recently, editor of A Southern Practice: The Diary and Autobiography of Charles A.
"private" in one sense, letters and diaries also may be seen as following certain widespread, "public" cultural conventions of expression (for example, diarists addressing their diaries as persons ) and topic (letter-writers talking about weather or health).
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