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What is a Personal Account?

How do Historians Use Personal Accounts?

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1. Who is the subject of the personal account?

2. How does the form of the personal account influence content?

3. What is the motivation for the personal account?

4. How did the account reach the reader?

5. How do personal accounts function in a larger context?

ResourcesGo to Resources

Sample Analysis: Fatima Mernissi, Dreams of Trespass

Sample Analysis: Marjorie Shostak, Nisa, a !Kung Woman

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Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following institutions and individuals for permission to publish material from their collections:

Beverley Mack, Kansas University

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York State

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