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Top 10 Featured Primary Sources of 2017

Posted by Gilder Lehrman Institute Staff on Thursday, 12/21/2017

A detail from Paul Revere's 'Bloody Massacre Perpetrated on King Street," 1770 (Gilder Lehrman Institute)Your favorite Featured Primary Sources from the old Gilder Lehrman website are now Spotlights on a Primary Source. See them all here.

The Top 10 Most-Viewed Spotlights on a Primary Source in 2017 are

  1. Herbert Hoover on the Great Depression and New Deal, 1931–1933
  2. Columbus reports on his first voyage, 1493
  3. Paul Revere’s engraving of the Boston Massacre, 1770
  4. Lowell Mill Girls and the factory system, 1840
  5. A report on the reaction to the Stamp Act, 1765
  6. A Jamestown settler describes life in Virginia, 1622
  7. Treaty of Versailles and President Wilson, 1919 and 1921
  8. The Grange Movement, 1875
  9. Bartolome de Las Casas debates the subjugation of the Indians, 1550
  10. The Doctrine of Discovery, 1493

And check out the two newest Spotlights:

A family torn apart by war, 1777

“The war ruined me”: The aftermath of the Civil War in the South, 1867

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