History Resources

African American soldiers at the Battle of Fort Wagner, 1863

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American Colonization Society membership certificate, 1833

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A secret agreement between pirate hunters, 1696

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World History

Harriet Beecher Stowe sends Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, 1852

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Literature

George Washington from Valley Forge on the urgent need for men and supplies, 1777

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Mary Todd Lincoln on life after the White House, 1870

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Economics

Lincoln on the execution of a slave trader, 1862

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John Winthrop describes life in Boston, 1634

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Alexander Hamilton’s "gloomy" view of the American Revolution, 1780

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Government and Civics

Thomas Jefferson's opposition to the Federalists, 1810

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Government and Civics