Broadside printed for Abraham Lincolnšs funeral. Chicago, ca. January 5, 1865. (Detail, GLC 06825) Edmund Pendleton to James Madison, Edmundsbury, Va., August 6, 1781. (Detail, GLC 00099.074) xhibitions to date have contained letters and manuscripts of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln, as well as a wealth of material illuminating the lives of ordinary Americans. Exhibits have spotlighted battlefield letters, personal diaries, prints, photographs, and the private manuscripts of the women and men who shaped American history. For more information about the Gilder Lehrman Collection, click here. "ALEXANDER HAMILTON: The Man Who Made Modern America" New-York Historical Society, New York City September 10, 2004 – February 28, 2005. In partnership with the New-York Historical Society, GLI helped develop a year-long celebration of Alexander Hamilton’s legacy. The exhibition contained over 150 rare artifacts and documents from the collections of the New-York Historical Society, the Gilder Lehrman Collection, the Museum of the City of New York, the Library of Congress and others. For more information, see the exhibition's companion website, www.AlexanderHamiltonExhibition.org. "Freedom: A History of US" New-York Historical Society, New York City Dec. 10, 2002 - Jan. 27, 2003. Decatur House Museum, Washington DC Feb. 4 - Mar. 30, 2003. The exhibition featured rare materials including documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection and photographs from the Meserve-Kunhardt Collection. These materials were arranged and explicated to trace the evolving principle of freedom from the nation's founding through the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Many of the documents and photos in "Freedom: A History of US" had never before been available to the general public and were exhibited for the first time. "Views of Yellowstone: William Henry Jackson Photographs from the Gilder Lehrman Collection" Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City Sept. 4, 2001 - Jan. 20, 2002. This exhibition featured forty-one albumen prints of Yellowstone from 1871, along with several stereocards. A sampling of historical documents from such prominent figures as Frederick Douglass and Horace Greeley provided a context for the photographs and offered more information about the United States in the early 1870s. "Views of Yellowstone" showed Americans imagining a new beginning in the West, struggling for civil rights, and attempting to govern in the post-Civil War era. The exhibition was reviewed in The New York Times on September 21, 2001. "Now He Belongs to the Ages: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln" The Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, Ind. April 20, 2001 - Jan. 20, 2002. This exhibition featured six items on loan from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. "The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden" National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Nov. 15, 2000 - Dec. 2001. This exhibition featured two items on loan from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, a letter by George Washington expressing his reluctance to become president, and a printing of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Abraham Lincoln. "Last Letters Home" Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City June 2001 - Sept. 2001. The exhibit showcased unique Civil War letters between soldiers in the field and their families back home, many of which were especially poignant because they were written by soldiers who would not survive. "Thinking Like A Historian: Using Nineteenth-Century Diaries to Understand American History" Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City Feb. - June 2001. "Thinking Like A Historian" examined the ways in which historians use original documents to understand more about our past and to illuminate our present. William Henry Jackson. Photograph, Yellowstone Series, 1871. (Detail, GLC 03095.44)