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From The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York

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Republican ticket featuring Lincoln and Johnson

…By the Representatives of the United States of America

Caleb Brewster describes a battle on Long Island Sound

Fragment of Lincoln's speech on slavery, Dred Scott, and Kansas

Mary Pickford's saviour

Proclamation to the people of the Philippine Islands

Francis Fletcher and equal pay for the 54th Massachusetts

Kiteredge to the Selectmen

The Calhoun School and African Americans

Henry Knox on his beliefs about spirituality

The Haymarket Affair and American Labor

The "Problem of the Native Americans"

George Custer’s Report on the Battle of Washita

The South Buys Rifles from the North

Andrew Carnegie’s Music Hall

An African American nominated for Vice President

Notes from the Atlanta Compromise

The Chinese Exclusion Act

Manhattan District Scientists

Annotated draft printing of the U.S. Constitution

The Ghost Dance Religion

Competition between Ericsson’s screw propeller and Steven’s scull

Eleanor Roosevelt's Social Thought

Women in the Civil War

Charles Guiteau justifies murder via poetry

Gorham to Knox on the federal assumption of state debt

"A citizen as a matter of course"

Instructions to all persons of Japanese ancestry

"Nothing will miscarry in the attainment of our war aims"

John Brown to Mary Ann Brown on avoiding Uncle Sam’s hound

Order to send troops to help protect Concord and Medfield

Demand from the Ku Klux Klan for Davie Jeems to resign

Signed title page of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass

Robert E. Lee’s General Orders No. 9

An Act Suppressing the Slave Trade

Letter from Mercy O. Warren to Catharine Macaulay regarding the signing of the Constitution

Asa Smith Describes the Battle of Hampton Roads

Authentic and impartial narrative of the tragical scene

Roger Williams concerning neighbouring Indigenous communities

Concerns over African American disenfranchisement

The Origin of Roosevelt’s New Deal

Brigham Young comments on the Pacific Railroad

The Battle of the Reservations

William Pitt on French and Indian War strategy and costs

Sharecropper contract for Cooper Hughes and Charles Roberts

Reconstruction and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

State communications

The Address of the Religious Society called Quakers

"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain"

Taft versus Theodore Delano

The U.S., Russia, and the Alaska Purchase

An Appeal to the Women of the United States

The Articles of Capitulation settled at Yorktown

The lawmakers in support of the Thirteenth Amendment

John Quincy Adams regarding the Amistad Case

Clara Barton and the Civil War

Sam Houston to Edward Burleson about Austin's safety

Christopher Columbus to the King and Queen of Spain

Instructions for house managers showing The Birth of a Nation

Sir Richard Grenville to John Blighe asking for money

Food prices in the South’s Civil War

Alexander Hamilton et al campaign for the Constitution

Margaret ‘Molly’ Corbin and the American Revolution

Sebastian Brandt letter to Mr. Hojener

Letter from Martha Washington to Frances 'Fanny' Washington

Henry Weeden to Mr. Freeman declining to repair his coat

The establishment of the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps

Ely S. Parker and the Confederate surrender

Samuel Morse's expenses

Santa Anna’s report to the Mexican Ministry of War

John Tyler to Spencer Roane about the Missouri debates

John Moore to Mary Moore from the frontier of the Utah Expedition

Herbert Hoover criticizing President Roosevelt's policies

An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the Northwest

"An Act of Sordid Conquest"

Phillis Wheatley’s book of poems

Pro-slavery pamphlet

Papal Bull Inter Caetera

Religion during the Civil War

John Jay to William North

George Washington shares his fears with Henry Knox

Amelia Earhart to her flying instructor Neta Snook

Articles of surrender

The Bostonians paying the Excise-Man

An eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic

Cherokee “Spoilatia” claim against U.S. Government

Henry Bibb on how his money was used for fugitive enslaved people

An announcement of South Carolina's secession

John Thorn to Joseph E. Smith regarding the war

Fighting in the American Civil War

Letter discussing building work

Frederick Douglass to Hugh Auld

Letter reporting the successful trial of a spar torpedo

Harriet Beecher Stowe regarding her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin

The Battle of the Alamo and the Travis Letter

Julia Ward Howe’s Battle Hymn of the Republic

Woodrow Wilson’s reasons for war with Germany

The Wonders of the Invisible World by Cotton Mather 1693

A day in the life of Lucy Knox

Horace Greeley to Elizabeth Oakes Smith