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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...

[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...

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...

Joseph Rumshinsky, “Mamenu” or “The Triangle Victims” (in Yiddish), 1911. (Gilde

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, 1911

On March 25, 1911,...

Samuel Wood, Injured Humanity; Being A Representation of What the Unhappy Childr

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The horrors of slavery, 1805

Originally circulated in 1805...

John Winthrop to Nathaniel Rich, May 22, 1634. (Gilder Lehrman Collection)

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John Winthrop describes life in Boston, 1634

Between 1629 and 1640, 20,000 Puritans left England for America to escape religious...

Israel Goldstein to John D. Buchanan, September 13, 1967. (GLC05508.111)

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The United Nations and the international community, 1967

In this 1967 letter, Dr. Israel Goldstein, a prominent American rabbi and Zionist, comments on the United Nations as a peacekeeping...

George Washington to Burwell Bassett, August 28, 1762. (GLC07545)

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George Washington on attending church, 1762

In 1762, Virginia planter and future president George Washington, just thirty years old, had reason for optimism. He had...

Cotton Mather. The Wonders of the Invisible world....,1693 (Gilder Lehrman Colle

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Cotton Mather’s Account of the Witch Trials, 1693

Most Americans’ knowledge of the seventeenth century comes from heavily...

Christopher Columbus' letter to Ferdinand and Isabella, 1493. Gilder Lehrman Col

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Columbus reports on his first voyage, 1493

On August 3, 1492,...