Sources and Sites.

See introduction by Gerard Schulte Nordholt

http://www.egodocument.net  The website for the various projects currently going on at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Eventually it will include an interactive database on egodocuments and travel journals in the Netherlands up to 1914. Updates on the current project (1814-1914) will be put on this site on a regular basis. And this collection of sources and sites will be updated here.  Rudolf Dekker's  extensive bibliography on egodocuments and autobiography can be found here too.  It will replace the old site at the Erasmus University.

http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/pow/jeugdherinneringen/
Fascinating database of citations from Dutch childremembrances assembled by Hugo Röling

http://www.teleac.nl/jota/aflevering.jsp?aflnr=37421 A Dutch educational television site, where you can see an online video about our own research project on egodocuments. (In Dutch; translation forthcoming)

www.library.uu.nl/biguu/ A bibliographical link concerning the history of the Univeristy of Utrecht with a lot of biographical information.

http://dap.library.uu.nl/ A digital version of the 'Album promotorum' of the University of Utrecht, eventually consisting of some 20.000 persons, now already 5000 and growing!

http://sites.unc.edu/andrews/  Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography from the University of Wisconsin

German site of an extensive German project on Egodocuments 'Selbstzeugnisse in transkultureller Perspektive am Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften der FU Berlin'

NEW:  Zeitenblicke, online journal für die Geschichtswissenschaften Egodocumenten. A virtual conversation with Rudolf Dekker in: Zeitenblicke 1(2002) nr 2.

Most of the online sources are American, and many cover the Civil War.

http://www.dohistory.org the diary of Martha Ballard (1735-1812). One of the best sites of a primary source online. Here the internet defeats time, and gives us a direct link into the past itself. A hint of things to come, when we will move as easily through virtual time as we now move through virtual space. Made by the history department of Harvard University, about  Martha Ballard, a mid-wife in the years of the American revolution.

http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1035.htm  (audio of Martha Ballard)

http://www.CyndisList.com/diaries.htm Cyndi's List - Primarily a list of genealogy sites, but with an extensive coverage of Diaries and Letters

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1776-1800/war/waldo.htm From the Diary of Albigence Waldo, surgeon at Valley Forge, 1777.

http://melior.univ-montp3.fr/eol/egoDoc/Corberon/PageAccueil.htm

The journal of Marie Daniel Bourrée de Corberon  Paris - Saint-Pétersbourg - Paris 1775-1781.

http://earlyamerica.com/lives/franklin/index.html Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography

http://www.brookhousepress.ca/louisa/home.htm The 1815 Diary of a Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Farm Girl, Private website.

http://www.endoftheoregontrail.org/biomenu.html

Oregon Trail Diaries and Emigrant Biographies and Narratives.

http://www.over-land.com/diaries.html Links-The Overland Trail Diaries-Last updated. A lot of links to Diaries, Memoirs, Letters and Reports along The Trails West.

http://www.utm.edu/departments/acadpro/library/manus/ms009.htm Diaries of Van Buren Oldham from 1840-1884. University of Tennessee at Martin.

http://oldsite.library.upenn.edu/etext/diaries/fanny/nny Manuscript Diary of Fanny Ruschenberger, 1858-1881. At the University of Pennsylvania. One of those mentioned above.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohpickaw/kinnear/kinindex.htm Transcript of Diaries of Stephen A. Kinnear 1862, 1863, 1879, 1880.

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/williamson  Diary of the 16 year gold school girl Alice Williamson in 1864 - Duke University Special Collections Library.

http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/data2/spcoll/wills/

The John Rylands University Library  Special Collection Guide  W.M. WILLS'S HOME FRONT DIARIES

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/9788/Diaries.html Personal web site with Diaries of Mary Elizabeth (Neifert) Richards. An American woman during WWI

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/omori/court/court.html Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan. Sources from the digital library of the University of Pennsylvania.

http://www.enchantedfairyland.org/ The Enchanted Fairyland, The diary of the american writer Opal Whitely, written as a child

Civil war Diaries.

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/letters.html Valley of the Shadow - Letters and Diaries. A lot of personal documents from Virginia, from the period in and around the Civil War.

http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/cwletters.htm Civil War Letters and Diaries from the Carl Vinson Institute of Government of the University of Georgia.

Http://www.iowa-counties.com/civilwar/letters.htm - Iowa Letters, Journals, Diaries and Oral Accounts from the Civil War.

http://www.augustana.edu/library/SpecialCollections/civil1.html Augustana College Library-Civil War Diaries, Illinois.

http://www.civil-war.net/cgi-bin/urlsrch.cgi?key=searchstring&searchstring=Letters+and+Diaries

Large collections of diaries and letters of the American Civil War

Online diary sites

http://www.beyondwriting.com/autodiary.htm

Elayne Zaliss lists of diaries and journals online, a good point to start.

http://www.diarist.net/registry/

The Definitive Directory of Online Journals and Diaries

Indexing more than four thousand sites. 

http://www.blueroses.com/authors/links/online.html

A portal site to online diaries, with links and journals.

http://www.impolex.demon.co.uk/1999/june99/links.htm 1#Online Diaries

Another site with links to online diaries (ego on stun, as they are characterized here)

http://home.earthlink.net/~hevern/diaries.html

The personal documentary center, with numerous links to diaries and journals online.

http://www.mydeardiary.com/

The mydeardiary online, a site where you can safely share your personal diary and read those of others .

http://www.mydeardiary.com/cgi-bin/diary.cgi?a=donttellmamma

An example of a diary online from the mydeardiary files. Written by Donttellmamma

Famous quotation: The internet has changed my life. I use to be shy and withdrawn. The internet has changed that I feel I can talk to anyone.

http://diarist.net/

The diarist net, a comprehensive starting-point for both writers and readers of online

journals. With new content every week and even more features in the works, we've got everything you

need to know all about the people who tell all.

http://www.diarist.net/links/clips.html

This is their links and articles sub-site.

http://nav.webring.yahoo.com/hub?ring=liveswritten&list

A diary webring site, with An online journal of my Dark Dreams Love Wishes as a first entry

http://www.malotky.com/steve/current.htm

An example of a webring diary, the diary of Steve: Perhaps it's just a diary. Perhaps it's more

http://nav.webring.yahoo.com/hub?ring=diary&list

Another diary webring,

http://personalweb.about.com/cs/onlinediaries/

Find out about their most intimate thoughts and ideas and read what goes on in the

public and private lives of these interesting people. With Linda Roeder Your Guide to One of Over 700 Sites.

The masculine side of the Internet is revealed in these fabulous online journals. Find out what they like to do in their free time as well as what they do for a living and hear about the most intimate details of their lives.

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Lair/7863/10-14-1998.html

Another example of an online diary, see the quotation above. (on p&.)

http://diaryland.com/

A site that helps you to make your own diary online, get your own fun easy online diary , with at least a 1000 active online diaries.

http://www.opendiary.com/

The first interactive diary community on the Internet. Read about the lives of thousands

of real people, or get your own free online diary. We are currently home to many diaries from around the world.

http://www.diaryhistoryproject.com/introduction.htm

A site with reflections and articles about online diaries and journals. Very serious, very interesting.

http://207.158.243.119/html/journals___diaries.html

Very nice site about diaries and journals online, with some good links.

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/webident.html

Article of David Chandler, Personal Homes Pages and the Construction of Identities on the Web.

http://www.writing.ucsb.edu/faculty/sorapure/wa/diaries.html

Almost all online diaries present entries in reverse chronological order, with the most recent entries featured and the older ones archived; this creates a sense of the self immersed in the present, where life is "merely a sea of moments" (Magdalena Donea, Moments) and "Every day is a new day. Every story is a new story"  (Christine Castro, ReallyBigWords).

http://www.webgek.com/dagboek/ A Dutch diary site, 'dagboek online'

Some personal sites.

http://www.univie.ac.at/Geschichte/p_tersch.html Projekt: Die österreichische Autobiographie zur Zeit der Aufklärung. Sammlung und Dokumentation  Leitung: Univ. Prof. Dr.  Alfred Kohler Mitarbeiter: Dr. Harald Tersch (not longer there, alas)