Portraits of American Historical Figures
About this series
Shitu tells documented turning points in the lives of historical figures connected with American history, using their own memoirs, diaries, letters or verified oral accounts. The opening group also includes people whose lives crossed the Atlantic and the wider Americas. Their different histories should not be mistaken for a single nationality.
Each Chinese story has a complete English edition. The narratives are contemporary works by Shitu, prepared with AI assistance and checked against identified sources; they are not personal submissions by the historical figures. Source editions, rights and editorial qualifications are placed in the notes at the end of each language version.
Published stories
14 published stories
- 1. Three Rolls and a Shared Library
- 2. Bread for Letters, and the Journey He Would Not Describe
- 3. A Loophole in the Garret, and Freedom Long Deferred
- 4. Forty Pounds, and the Sea Beyond Freedom
- 5. The Paper Beyond the Salt Ponds
- 6. After a Hundred Pounds of Wool, She Walked into Court
- 7. After 223 Miles, the Promise Remained in the Snow
- 8. The Room Swept Three Times, the Kiln That Fell Three Times
- 9. After Twenty-Five Hundred Doors, He Could No Longer Remain an Observer
- 10. Water Across One Hand, Words Across the Other
- 11. An Open Side Door and a Buried Street
- 12. Conversations Among Wood Shavings, Signatures in a Chapel
- 13. Anna Howard Shaw: Five Dollars and a Road to the Pulpit
- 14. Two Days at Ellis Island: Why America Tried to Exclude Emmeline Pankhurst
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