In the First Person -- an index to letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives August 7, 2008 9:01 AM Subscribe
In the First Person "is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. It lets you keyword search more than 700,000 pages of full-text by more than 18,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 4,300 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records." (Description from website.) You can also browse by repository, collection, subject and several other ways.
posted by cog_nate (9 comments total)
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There is some subscriber-only content on the site, but the majority of it is freely available. posted by cog_nate at 9:01 AM on August 7, 2008
What a great resource for my English classes. Thanks! posted by themadjuggler at 10:05 AM on August 7, 2008
My searches kept bringing me to password walls. Is there a way to search only free content, or at least sort results? posted by LarryC at 10:50 AM on August 7, 2008
Wow, that's great. Too bad so much of it is restricted-access, but there's a lot of good stuff there. I just read an account by the CIA guy who recruited Oleg Penkovsky. (Incidentally, if you're trying the geographical index and can't find Russia under Europe, that's because they have it under Asia for some reason.) posted by languagehat at 11:25 AM on August 7, 2008
To search only free content, go to the advanced search screen and select FREE ONLY next to Exclude For Fee Products:
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posted by cog_nate at 9:01 AM on August 7, 2008