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Recens Edita totius Novi Belgii [New Netherland - New York], 1730. (Gilder Lehrm

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Map of the New World, with European settlements and American Indian tribes, 1730

This map, “Recens edita totius Novi Belgii in America Septentrionali,”...

Landing of Christopher Columbus, 1856

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Landing of Columbus, 1492

This engraving depicts Columbus’s first landing in the New World, on the island...

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...

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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John Quincy Adams to Roger S. Baldwin, November 11, 1840 (Gilder Lehrman Co

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John Quincy Adams and the Amistad case, 1841

On July 1, 1839, fifty-three Africans, recently kidnapped into slavery in Sierra Leone...

“$2,500 Reward!,” Mississippi Co., Missouri, broadside, August 23, 1852. (Gi

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Runaway slave ad, 1852

Broadsides and notices posted by slave owners or their agents offer dramatic...

Andrew Jackson, “To the Cherokee Tribe of Indians East of the Mississippi [circu

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Andrew Jackson to the Cherokee Tribe, 1835

Elected president in 1828, Andrew...

David Crockett to Charles Schultz, December 25, 1834 (Gilder Lehrman Collect

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Davy Crockett on the removal of the Cherokees, 1834

In this letter, written in December 1834, Davy Crockett complains about President Andrew...

Stephen Austin’s contract to bring settlers to Texas, June 4, 1825 (Gilder L

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Stephen Austin’s contract to bring settlers to Texas, 1825

In order to settle Texas in the 1820s, the Mexican government allowed...

Horace Greeley to R. L. Sanderson, November 15, 1871 (Gilder Lehrman Collection)

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Horace Greeley: “Go West,” 1871

Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, wrote this letter in 1871 to R....