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Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 (Gilder Lehrman Collectio

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The Gettysburg Address, 1863

On November 19, 1863, four months after the Battle of Gettysburg, a ceremony was held at...

[Appeal from the Western Sanitary Commission to President Abraham Lincoln regard

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The Western Sanitary Commission reports on suffering in the Mississippi Valley, 1863

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Ulysses S. Grant to Tiffany and Co., January 1884. (Gilder Lehrman Collection)

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Statue of Liberty, 1884

First conceived of in 1865, the Statue of...

Declaration of War against the United States and Britain [in Japanese], December

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Japan declares war, 1941

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Silas W. Mack to Clara W. Mack, April 20, 1906. (Gilder Lehrman Collection)

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A perspective on the San Francisco earthquake, 1906

At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a great earthquake broke loose, with an...

Harry S. Truman, Farewell Address, 1953. (Gilder Lehrman Collection)

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President Truman’s Farewell Address, 1953

It has none of the catch phrases or warnings of other, more famous presidential...

Benjamin Duvivier, George Washington before Boston, medal, ca. 1790 (GLC03221)

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The British evacuation of Boston, 1776

On March 25, 1776, only eight days after...

Francis H. Fletcher to Jacob C. Safford, May 28, 1864. (GLC07345)

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Sergeant Francis Fletcher of the 54th Massachusetts on equal pay for black soldiers, 1864

Francis H. Fletcher, a 22-year-old clerk from Salem, Massachusetts, enlisted as a private in Company A of the...

“Don’t Buy A Ford Ever Again” broadside, c. 1960. (GLC08259)

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Don’t Buy a Ford Ever Again, ca. 1960

New Orleans in 1960 was sharply divided over the practice of segregation. The schools were ordered to desegregate, which angered many...

John P. Sousa to John W. Hughes, March 12, 1930. (Gilder Lehrman Collection)

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John Philip Sousa critiques modern music, 1930

John Philip Sousa (1854–1932), an American composer of...