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On reading other people’s diaries

John Fea   |  November 30, 2022

This weekend my daughter and her boyfriend came to visit for Thanksgiving. It was his first visit to our stately abode in south central Pennsylvania and during the course of his stay she decided to show him my basement office....

Hunting for Diaries

John Fea   |  October 21, 2020

This may sound strange, but I love reading the diaries of dead people. My first book, The Way of Improvement Leads Home, told the story of one of early America’s most prolific diarists. While reading The Guardian last night, Amelia’s...

How Future Historians Might Use Your Quarantine Diary

John Fea   |  March 31, 2020

A couple weeks ago I encouraged everyone to keep a coronavirus diary.  Read that post here. Over at The New York Times, Amelia Nierenberg reports on the diaries and journals that “tell the story of an anxious, claustrophobic world on pause.” ...

Diary Journal of the Day

John Fea   |  June 4, 2019

Every now and then one finds a nugget like this: “Francis the Hermit died aged 66 years.  Lived 25 years in a Cave between this [Burlington, NJ) and Mount Holy [NJ].” -Diary of James Craft (1743-1808), January 19, 1778....

Diary Entry of the Day

John Fea   |  June 4, 2019

More James Craft from Burlington, NJ: “[Saw] Man on a Hogshead with a Label fixed to his breast with these words: ‘I Thomas Butler, stand here, for unlawfully killing and stealing a Steer graizing in the Pines.” James Craft Journal, November...

When You Find Your Grandfather’s Journals and They Are Amazing

John Fea   |  May 21, 2019

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-BhzcS2UNw&w=560&h=315] Context...

Elizabeth Craft’s Diary, 1770-1771

John Fea   |  April 14, 2018

Over at The Beehive, the blog of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Erin Weinman introduces us to the diary of Elizabeth Craft White.  From December 27, 1770 to January 23, 1771 White wrote about her spiritual life in the wake of...

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