On September 2, 2015, a photograph of three-year-old Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi’s lifeless body washed up on the shores of the Mediterranean went viral, spreading through social networks and into the media, accompanied by calls...
First-person accounts, documents of life, life writing, ego-documents: called by different names according to discipline and approach, narratives of the self have attracted attention from historians and other scholars in the...
The unprecedented increase in transoceanic migrations in the second half of the nineteenth century was a major catalyst for an explosion in letter-writing and for the expansion of letter-writing to the working classes. Through...