The Cherokee Removal Through the Eyes of a Private Soldier
In May 1838, federal militias started to round up Cherokees and move them into stockades in several southern states. They were then forced to march one thousand miles westward. Thousands of Cherokees died as a result of the removal. The journey became known as "The Trail of Tears" or "The Trail Where They Cried." Fifty years later, in 1890, Private John Burnett, who served in the mounted infantry; told his children his memories of the Trail of Tears1, which he described as the "execution of the most brutal order in the History of American Warfare."
From Voices of A People's History, edited by Zinn and Arnove
A senior concert of the High School of Music and Art - Paul Goodman
Paul Goodman recounts observing a school concert.
Eleven-plus and the comprehensive
Short account from a parent about their experience with two children in state education, taking the eleven plus exams.
First impression
Short account from a first-year student just beginning secondary school in London about his educational experience.
A last look round
Short article about the educational experiences of an anonymous sixth former.
Bombed site and comprehensive school - Winifred Hindley
A personal account from a teacher about her experiences teaching children in a "horsa hut": prefab schools constructed across the UK from 1944 to replace schools destroyed in bombing and to accommodate additional pupils created for increasing the state education minimum age to 15.
From a South African notebook - Maurice Goldman
An eyewitness account of the brutality of South Africa's apartheid system.
Notes on the movement against the loi du travail, by a waitress
Submitted by Red Marriott on Jun 3 2016 18:49
A street level account by a participant in the ongoing movement against the new French labour law, written in May 2016.
Back in the USSR
Impressions from a trip to the Soviet Union.
Working in a Supermarket
Observations on working as a "carry-out" in a supermarket.
