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At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World through the end of the twentieth century.

The American Crisis. Let God, and the world judge between Us [Lexington]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03630 Author/Creator: Place Written: Hartford Type: Broadside Date: 01 May 1775 Pagination: 1 sheet 33 x 20.4 cm Order a Copy

Hartford, Ct. Eben Watson.
propaganda inspired by the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

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