An exciting new database
The Library now offers access to In the First Person, an index to letters, diaries, oral histories, and personal narratives. It includes more than 2500 collections of oral histories in English from around the world. By the end of this year, there will be 350,000 pages of full-text material available to you.

For example, if you were writing a research paper on Crazy Horse, a prominent Sioux leader from the nineteenth century, you could search for his name in In the First Person and find a 1930 interview of Red Feather, his contemporary.

This interview would offer a different perspective from a book written much later by someone who had never met Crazy Horse. It would help you to write a better research paper.

In the First Person can be accessed from theLibrary's Articles and Databases page. Try it out, and let the librarians know what you think of it.