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Abraham Lincoln, speech fragment concerning the abolition of slavery, ca. July 1

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Lincoln on abolition in England and the United States, 1858

Though Lincoln spoke frequently during the 1858 Illinois...

Abraham Lincoln, speech fragment on slavery and the American government, ca. 185

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Lincoln speech on slavery and the American Dream, 1858

Through the 1830s and 1840s, Abraham Lincoln’s primary political focus was on economic...

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...

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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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...

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...