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At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World through the end of the twentieth century.

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6 May 1864

United States. Congress

Book

Title: Report to the Committee on the Conduct of the War: Fort Pillow Massacre, Returned Prisoners

JB00575.01

22 December 1845

United States. Congress

Pamphlet

Title: Message form the President of the United States, Transmitting A report from the Secretary of State, together with the Correspondence of George W. Stacum, relative to the African Slave Trade

JB00492

24 June 1846

United States. Congress

Pamphlet

Title: Schooner Amistad Rep. No. 753

JB00493

1830

United States. Congress

Book

Title: Slave Trade

JB00537

5 August 1890

United States. Congress

Pamphlet

Title: 1890 Chinese Immigration

One pamphlet entitled Chinese Immigration dated August 5, 1890. A report from Mr. Morrow from the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Contains the provisions of the 1882 Immigration act commonly referred to as the Chinese Exclusion act. It highlights the issues with the act and the acts of noncompliance that took place around the passage of the act. Argues for continued and more stringent restrictions on immigration from China.

GLC09983

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