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he Gilder Lehrman Collection, on deposit at the New-York Historical
Society, contains more than 60,000 documents detailing the political
and social history of the United States. The collection's holdings
include manuscript letters, diaries, maps, photographs, printed books
and pamphlets ranging from 1493 through modern times.The Collection is particularly rich with materials in the Revolutionary, Antebellum, Civil War and Reconstruction periods. Highlights of the Collection include signed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Thirteenth Amendment, a rare printed copy of the first draft of the Constitution, and thousands of unpublished Civil War soldiers' letters. Letters written by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and others vividly record the issues and events of their day. The writings of such notable women as Lucy Knox, Mercy Otis Warren and Catherine Macaulay discuss a variety of military, political and social issues. For more detailed information about Collection holdings, click here. Access to the Collection Due to construction at the New-York Historical Society, physical access to the Collection is temporarily limited. Please contact our reference librarian about access to the materials of interest to you. For general questions, contact: reference@gilderlehrman.org. For information about rights and reproductions, click here or contact permissions@gilderlehrman.org.   
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