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[Map of Yorktown, Virginia], October 1781 (Gilder Lehrman Collection)

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Surrender of the British General Cornwallis to the Americans, October 19, 1781

These three documents—a map, a manuscript, and a print—tell the story of the surrender of British...

he Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.... (London, 1794). (Lib

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Olaudah Equiano

Within ten years of the first North American settlements, Europeans began transporting captured Africans to the colonies as slaves. Imagine the thoughts and fears of an...

Washington Dodge, Eyewitness account of sinking of the Titanic, April 15, 1912.

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Eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic, 1912

Shortly before midnight on April 14, 1912, the...

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

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Japan declares war, 1941

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Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mimeograph re: ”Victory order of the Day” with typed signa

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Victory Order of the Day, 1945

In March 1945 American and British forces moved...

Peace Congress, Versailles 1919, Session of 28 June 1919: Agenda. Signature of t

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Treaty of Versailles and President Wilson, 1919 and 1921

The Treaty of Versailles, which ended World...

Irving Kaplan, Preliminary statement of the Association of Manhattan District Sc

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Physicists predict a nuclear arms race, 1945

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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...

Agreement between Livingston and Kidd, and Blackham, 1696. (GLC)

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A secret agreement between pirate hunters, 1696

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Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississippi [map of North America], by Guil

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Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi, 1718

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