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Novi Belgi Novaeque Angliae [New Netherland and New England], 1682.

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Late seventeenth-century map of the Northeast, 1682

Like many other explorers, Henry Hudson stumbled upon North America almost by accident. Employed by the Dutch Republic to...

Christian Discipline: Certain Good and Wholesome Orders for the Well-Governing o

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William Penn on the “Well-Governing of My Family,” ca. 1700

Quaker school teacher Josiah Forster first published this broadside in 1751, thirty years after the...

A view of Savanah [sic] as it stood the 29th of March, 1734, engraving by Pierre

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A View of Savannah, Georgia, 1734

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Henry Knox, Order of march to Trenton, December 26, 1776 (Gilder Lehrman Collect

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Henry Knox’s Order of March to Trenton, 1776

On Christmas Day in 1776 the American Revolution was on the verge of...

[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...

Constitution [printing of first draft] [Committee of Detail], August 6, 1787.

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Two versions of the Preamble to the Constitution, 1787

On May 25, 1787, the fifty-five delegates to the Constitutional Convention began meeting in a room, no bigger than a large schoolroom, in Philadelphia’s State House. They posted sentries at the doors and windows to keep their “secrets from flying out.” They barred the press and public, and took a vow not to reveal to anyone the words spoken there. There were speeches of two, three, and four hours. The convention, which lasted four months, took only a single eleven-day break.

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Thomas Jefferson to James Maury Esq., June 16, 1815. (Gilder Lehrman Collect

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Jefferson on British aggression, 1815

In this letter in defense of American nationalism, Thomas Jefferson denounces the blustering...

Timothy Pickering, Speech in favor of the Twelfth Amendment, October 17, 1803 (T

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Speech in favor of the Twelfth Amendment, 1803

Until 1804,...

Angelica Schuyler Church to Philip Schuyler, July 11, 1804. (Gilder Lehrman

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The duel: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, 1804

Alexander Hamilton, former secretary of the treasury, and Aaron Burr, sitting vice...

[Abstinence pledge card], September 23, 1842 (Gilder Lehrman Collection)

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Abstinence pledge card, 1842

Mathew Theobald, a Catholic priest in Dublin, Ireland, founded the Cork Total Abstinence Society on April...