Apologies for cross posting, but historians of economics might find this of some use -- a "quick search" at their site using the word "economists" produces a lot of hits. ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:25:26 -1000 From: William Craig Howes <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Database of First Person Documents To: [log in to unmask] New FREE Database of Documents Written in the First Person In the First Person is a landmark index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. Working with archives, repositories, publishers, and individuals we've indexed first person narratives from hundreds of published volumes those that are publicly available on the Web and those that are held by repositories and archives around the world. Our intent is to make it possible to find and explore the voices of more than 300,000 individuals. The most comprehensive archive of social memory yet created, In the First Person is a one-stop starting point for historians, sociologists, genealogists, linguists, and psychologists who want to find, explore, and analyze human experiences. The stories of diverse groups and ordinary people from all walks of life can at last be heard alongside those of the well-published and famous. And, the public voices we hear in print and in the media reveal the more honest and personal accounts of their lives. Future updates will contain full-text sources and hundreds of thousands of bibliographic records. The index will allow users perform in-depth field and keyword searches across all letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within Alexander Street Press databases more than one million pages of editorially selected materials spanning 400 years. The index also applies the same extensive search tools to scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web. With a single search, users can perform keyword searches across thousands of personal narratives from the English-speaking world. Carolyn McGee Alexander Street Press, LLC 3212 Duke Street Alexandria, VA 22314 [log in to unmask] Visit the website at http://www.inthefirstperson.com ------- End of forwarded message ------- E. Roy Weintraub