Highlights
- More than 1,000 documents relate to American Indian history from the 1600s to the early 1900s, including individual pieces written in Algonkian, Cherokee, and Choctaw
- Almost 200 documents examine piracy, the Barbary Wars, pogroms in Algeria, and US diplomacy in Algiers, 1800–1809.
- Over 100 letters and documents detail the civil unrest during Shays’ Rebellion (1786–1787) and the Whiskey Rebellion (1794), which threatened to destroy the new nation.
- Nearly 200 documents related to Alexander Hamilton and his influence on the nation.
- Nearly 100 letters discuss epidemics in the founding era, such as yellow fever and smallpox, and their impact on the country.
- 4 letters regarding Margaret “Molly” Corbin, the first woman to receive a military pension and to be recognized as a veteran in the United States