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Title: A Man's Life: An Autobiography

GLC09927

Title: Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait

GLC09928

Title: Remarks of Mr. Thomas of Massachusetts

GLC09929

Title: A War Reminiscence by Frances B. Ormsbee

First a manuscript copy and then typed.

GLC03523.09.59

Title: Leather case and one cent coin

GLC03523.17.21

1973-1974

Title: to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead

One petition from the Grass Roots Impeachment Movement to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead dated 1973-1974. The Grass Roots Impeachment Movement support the impeachment of President Nixon. One page of a petition, listing 12 names with addresses. It reads in part, "We, the undersigned, believe our nation was founded on the principle that no citizen is above the law, and every citizen is entitled to a fair trial on charges of wrongdoing. Accordingly we ask the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon to assure him of a fair trial on the charges that he has conspired in obstruction of justice, subornation of perjury, subversion, illegal surveillance and other unlawful activities."

GLC09613.02.0216

1973-1974

Title: to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead

One petition from the Grass Roots Impeachment Movement to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead dated 1973-1974. The Grass Roots Impeachment Movement support the impeachment of President Nixon. One page of a petition, listing 12 names with addresses. It reads in part, "We, the undersigned, believe our nation was founded on the principle that no citizen is above the law, and every citizen is entitled to a fair trial on charges of wrongdoing. Accordingly we ask the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon to assure him of a fair trial on the charges that he has conspired in obstruction of justice, subornation of perjury, subversion, illegal surveillance and other unlawful activities."

GLC09613.02.0221.16

1973-1974

Title: to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead

One letter from Valerie Dossi to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead dated 1973-1974. Dossi supports the impeachment of President Nixon.

GLC09613.02.0247

1973-1974

Title: to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead

One letter from Susan E. Nilsen to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead dated 1973-1974. Nilsen supports the impeachment of President Nixon. She believes that Nixon is a terrible person and writes, "As a fellow Republican, it must pain you greatly to see the illegal things Mr. Nixon has done and is doing."

GLC09613.02.0255

n.d.

Title: Invitation

Invitation.

GLC03523.24.125

no date

Title: [Extract from J.Q. Adams' Diary and other articles]

Pages 145- 156 of unknown book

JB00589

Title: Engraving of William Wilberforce

GLC09791.0035

Title: Various press photographs, 1958-1977

GLC09794

Title: Various photographs, 1966-1981

GLC09795

Title: Signed lithographs of astronauts Vance Brand and Sally Ride

GLC09797

Title: Signed photographs of Mikhail Gorbachev

GLC09796

Title: Photographs and letter signed by Jesse Owens

GLC09798

1788

Title: The Padlock

JB00128

1788

Title: The Padlock

JB00129

1769

Title: The Padlock

JB00130

February 1970

Title: Alcatraz: Indians of All Tribes [Volume 1, No.2, February 1970]

One newsletter entitled, "Alcatraz: Indians of All Tribes," dated February 1970.

GLC09792

Title: Collection of 19 items related to the Apollo 11 moon landing

GLC09799

Title: [Portrait of Rosa Parks]

One undated photograph of Rosa Parks at a microphone.

GLC09778.02

Title: [Portrait of Rosa Parks]

One undated candid photograph of Rosa Parks with carnation brooch pinned to her blouse.

GLC09778.03

Title: WWII Newsmap published by the War Department Bureau of Public Relations

GLC09865

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Yellow Fever 1793

Essay

Richard Brookhiser

The Influenza of 1918 and the Coronavirus of 2020: Some Parallels and Differences

Essay

John M. Barry

Invisible Threats and the Politics of Disaster: Three Mile Island and Covid-19

Essay

Natasha Zaretsky

History in the Making: COVIDCalls and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Essay

Scott Gabriel Knowles and Bucky Stanton, Scott Gabriel Knowles, Bucky Stanton

Excerpt from Absalom Jones and Richard Allen, "Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia, in the Year 1793" (1794), with an introduction by James G. Basker

Essay

Absalom Jones and Richard Allen, Absalom Jones, Richard Allen

The Importance of Studying Disasters: Ideas and Advice for the Classroom

Essay

Liz Skilton

From the Editor

Essay

Carol Berkin

Black Volunteers in the Nation’s First Epidemic, 1793

Spotlight on: Primary Source

Absalom Jones and Richard Allen

The Map Proves It, ca. 1919

Spotlight on: Primary Source

An appeal for suffrage support, 1871

Spotlight on: Primary Source

National Woman Suffrage and Educational Committee

Voting restrictions for African Americans, 1944

Spotlight on: Primary Source

Committee of Editors and Writers of the South

Thomas Rowe and Joshua Hooper: Sedition charges, 1815

Spotlight on: Primary Source

Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and The Yankee

The Sedition Act, 1798

Spotlight on: Primary Source

Benjamin Russell

Murder on the Frontier: The Paxton Massacre

Lesson Plan

Ron Nash and John McNamara

The Soldier's Experience: Letters from Four American Wars

Lesson Plan

Nathan McAlister

Immigration

Online Exhibition

Inside the Vault: Lucy Knox: Loyalist’s Daughter, Patriot’s Wife, and Witness to the American Revolution

Video

Gilder Lehrman Staff

"Soldier for Equality: Jose de la Luz Saenz and the Great War"

Video

Duncan Tonatiuh (Author and Illustrator)

"The Escape of Robert Smalls: A Daring Voyage Out of Slavery"

Video

Jehan Jones-Radgowski (author) and Poppy Kang (Illustrator)

Inside the Vault: Civil War Diaries of William Woodlin, 8th USCT, & Cyrena Hammond

Video

Gilder Lehrman Staff

"Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII"

Video

Marissa Moss (Author) and Yuko Shimizu (Illustrator)

Suggested Resources on the War of 1812 from the Archivist

Essay

Mary-Jo Kline

The Transnational Nature of the Progressive Era

Essay

Daniel T. Rodgers

Lincoln and Abolitionism

Essay

Douglas L. Wilson

Every Citizen a Soldier: World War II Posters on the American Home Front

Essay

Harry Rubenstein, William L. Bird Jr.

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"Document of the Month" - October

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Scholar’s Blog - Aaron Sheehan-Dean

OCTOBER 10 AND NOVEMBER 5, 1863: DAVIS TRIES TO RALLY CONFEDERATE MORALE, The summer of 1863 had been a poor one for the Confederacy. Robert E. Lee’s army was not just repulsed from its invasion of Pennsylvania but bloodily beaten at Gettysburg. At the same time, William S. Rosecrans maneuvered Braxton Bragg’s Confederates out of Middle Tennessee at the cost of fewer than six hundred Union casualties. Farther west, Ulysses S. Grant had at last captured Vicksburg, the strongest Confederate citadel of the Mississippi, and delivered complete control of the "Father of Waters" to the Union. Lee…

Food Conservation during WWI: "Food Will Win the War"

When most people think of wartime food rationing, they think of World War II. However, civilians were encouraged to do their part for the war effort during World War I as well. This colorful poster by artist Charles E. Chambers was issued by the United States Food Administration to encourage voluntary food conservation. "Food Will Win the War" was the name of the campaign initiated by the newly appointed head of the agency, Herbert Hoover. Food was necessary not only to feed America’s growing Army, but to help relieve famine in Europe, in part to prevent the overthrow of European governments…

"Document of the Month" - November

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Scholar’s Blog - Brooks D. Simpson

MARCH 9, 1864—ULYSSES S. GRANT IS COMMISSIONED AS LIEUTENANT-GENERAL, On March 8, 1864, Ulysses S. Grant and his eldest son, Fred, arrived at Washington, DC. It was the general’s first visit to Washington since 1852, when he had been a young officer. What happened next is fairly well known. The front desk clerk at Willard’s Hotel did not recognize his distinguished guest and assigned him a small room before realizing that the hero of Vicksburg and Chattanooga was standing before him. After struggling to eat a meal at the hotel restaurant as excited onlookers buzzed around him, Grant made his…

Select images from the American Civil War

In October 1862, Mathew Brady opened a photography exhibition at his studio in New York City. Entitled The Dead of Antietam , the exhibition attracted large crowds and brought the war home in a way that news articles and casualty listings could not. On October 20, 1862, an editorial in the New York Times explained that "the dead of the battle-field come up to us very rarely, even in dreams. We see the list in the morning paper at breakfast, but dismiss its recollection with the coffee. There is a confused mass of names, but they are all strangers; we forget the horrible significance that…

The Emancipation Proclamation: Raising money for sick and wounded soldiers

The Emancipation Proclamation stands as the single most important accomplishment of Lincoln’s presidency. The preliminary proclamation, announced on September 22, 1862, served as a warning for Southern states that if they did not abandon the war, they would lose their slaves. More important, it was the first step toward the official abolition of slavery in the United States. While many Northerners were not initially abolitionists, their support of Abraham Lincoln and the Union military, as well as the demonstrated determination of slaves to escape bondage in the South and the courage of…

New World War II acquisition: Pearl Harbor patriotic poster from 1942

Following the Japanese bombardment of the US Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, the United States declared war on Japan and Germany and immediately mobilized the country for war. "Remember Dec. 7th!" is a propaganda poster intended to promote a sense of nationalism and boost support for the war effort. It combines imagery suggesting the destruction of the base—smoke and a tattered American flag—with a quotation from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: "We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain." Invoking Lincoln could both give comfort to Americans and…

"Document of the Month" - December

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Scholar’s Blog - Aaron Sheehan-Dean

December 17, 1862: Lincoln’s Cabinet Crisis, Less than a week after the disastrous Union defeat at Fredericksburg, Virginia, on December 13, 1862, Abraham Lincoln confronted one of the most serious political crises he faced during the war. The debacle fed mounting frustration among Republicans over the administration’s conduct of the war. Led by its Radical members, the Senate Republican caucus tried to force Secretary of State William H. Seward out of the Cabinet. The Radicals accused Seward of opposing vigorous prosecution of the war, exercising undue influence on the President, and…

"Document of the Month" - January 2013

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Martha Washington: First Lady’s grandchildren were her top priority

On April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as our nation’s first president. His wife, Martha Washington, was not at his side. Washington had only received the election results two weeks earlier, on April 14, when Secretary of Congress Charles Thomson arrived at Mount Vernon to notify Washington. He left for the temporary national capital, New York City, two days later and arrived on April 23. He traveled through six states, attending celebrations in cities and towns along the route and being greeted by thousands of citizens who lined the roads. Martha, her two grandchildren, and seven…

Scholar’s Blog - Brooks D. Simpson

January 20, 1863: "Mud March" of the Army of the Potomac, After its bloody defeat in December 1862 the Army of the Potomac settled down for the winter around Falmouth, Virginia, on the north bank of the Rappahannock River across from Fredericksburg. Aware that several of his subordinates were actively intriguing for his replacement as the army’s commander, Ambrose Burnside was determined not to sit still for long. He issued orders calling for a march westward, looking to cross the Rappahannock upriver from Fredericksburg and outflank the defensive line held by Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern…

"Document of the Month" - February 2013

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Scholar’s Blog - Aaron Sheehan-Dean

February 23, 1863: Vallandigham Denounces the Draft, What is the proper way for Americans to express political opposition to an ongoing war? How can the party out of power maintain its own identity without appearing disloyal? Can party members oppose the conflict itself and still proclaim themselves patriots? These questions pressed themselves on the Federalists during the War of 1812 and the Whigs during the US–Mexican War and have recurred in recent years, but they took on a special urgency for northern Democrats during the Civil War. (Because a political party system never emerged in the…

Former slave, Doctor Cuffee Saunders, 1781

Sometimes a simple document can open the door to a great story. Cuffee Saunders was a Black soldier during the Revolutionary War. The paperwork here is for “Cuffee Wells,” Wells being the name of Cuffee’s former slaveowner. When Cuffee entered the Army he was still known as Cuffee Wells, and during the war he took the last name of Saunders.  In this statement dated 1781, Richard Lamb and John Nutter verify that Cuffee Saunders enlisted in the Continental Army in May 1777 and earned a bounty of 30 pounds, part of which was used to purchase his freedom. Likewise, Justice of the Peace Benjamin…

"Document of the Month" - April 2013

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Playing ball for the troops: Yankees/Dodgers/Giants exhibition benefit game, 1943

There’s no denying the important role that baseball has played in America’s past. It has always been considered more than a game, whether played by professional athletes or kids at the sandlot. This was never more obvious than during World War II. By 1943, the war was raging in Europe and the Pacific. American mothers and fathers sent their sons to war and those who stayed home made whatever sacrifices they could, great or small. President Roosevelt weighed in on the decision to allow baseball to continue in what is now known as the "green light letter" to Major League Baseball commissioner…

Scholar’s Blog - Aaron Sheehan-Dean

March 31, 1863: Halleck Instructs Grant, On March 31, 1863, Henry W. Halleck wrote an "unofficial letter" to Ulysses S. Grant "as a personal friend and as a matter of friendly advice." [1] As is often the case in communications between a superior and his subordinate—Halleck was general-in-chief of the Union army, Grant the commander of the Army of Tennessee—the "friendly advice" concerned serious matters: the policy of the Lincoln administration toward slavery and emancipation, the obligation of military officers to faithfully execute government policy, and the essential nature of the war…

Robert E. Lee’s condolence letter to his son Rooney, 1864

In this beautifully written letter, Confederate general Robert E. Lee attempts to console his son William Fitzhugh "Rooney" Lee on the loss of his wife. The letter demonstrates the emotion that Lee felt for his family and offers a glimpse of the strength that carried Lee through the war. His faith in God, his empathy for others’ misfortunes, and his belief in the Confederate cause, all granted Lee the fortitude he needed to endure the war. One can see all of these attributes in this single, short missive. Robert E. Lee to William F. Lee, April 24, 1864. (Gilder Lehrman Collection, GLC Robert…

"Document of the Month" - May 2013

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Scholar’s Blog - Aaron Sheehan-Dean

April 30, 1863: Hooker Reaches Chancellorsville, The bloody Union defeat at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862 and the aborted "Mud March" along the Rappahannock River the following month demoralized the Army of the Potomac and caused a widespread loss of confidence in its commander, Ambrose Burnside. On January 26, 1863, President Lincoln replaced Burnside with Joseph Hooker, who reorganized the army’s command structure and raised its morale by improving camp conditions, providing better food, and granting furloughs. With 134,000 men under his command, on April 27 Hooker began an…

Scholar’s Blog - Brooks D. Simpson

MAY 22, 1863: GRANT LAYS SIEGE TO VICKSBURG, It had been a long and difficult winter for Ulysses S. Grant. For months his army had struggled in the bayous and swamps around Vicksburg, Mississippi, looking for some way to attack the Confederate citadel that blocked Union control of the Mississippi River. He had come under heavy criticism from many quarters, including some of his own subordinates. One of his corps commanders, the politically connected former congressman John A. McClernand, was busily intriguing to replace him by writing to President Lincoln about his shortcomings. Rumors…

"Document of the Month" - June 2013

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Robert E. Lee writes about friends and "the daughters of Eve" at Fort Monroe, 1834

This gossipy and personal letter captures the close friendship between Robert E. Lee and John "Jack" MacKay. It offers an example of letter writing in the days before the instant communication provided by telephones and the Internet. It also demonstrates the camaraderie and easy-going friendship of army officers as well as the relatively carefree life enjoyed by US soldiers prior to the Civil War. It serves as a reminder that even the greatest of historical figures were human and spoke of girls, babies, and "blushing." Robert E. Lee to John MacKay, June 26, 1834. (The Gilder Lehrman Institute…

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