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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...

Albert Einstein to Rose Russell [in German], [May 28], 1953. (Gilder Lehrman Col

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Albert Einstein on the McCarthy hearings and the Fifth Amendment, 1953

During the “McCarthy hearings” of the 1950s, the government...

Robert F. Kennedy, [Report to President John F. Kennedy regarding civil rights],

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Robert Kennedy on civil rights, 1963

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