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This booklet opens a unique window into the nation’s most divisive conflict through the artistic creations of enlisted men. In watercolors, pen-and-ink sketches, and even a comic strip, five young soldiers, none of whom were working artists before or during the war, recorded their experiences in notebooks that they carried with them through battle–and that have since found their way to the Gilder Lehrman Collection. Full-color reproductions of each soldier’s work appear in the book, along with brief biographies chronicling their war service and later lives.
Why Documents Matter: American Originals and the Historical Imagination, Selections from the Gilder Lehrman Collection (booklet, 56pp) edited by James G. Basker
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A booklet of historic documents with transcriptions from the Gilder Lehrman Collection spanning 200 years of American history.
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John Brown: The Abolitionist and His Legacy (booklet, 79 pp) adapted from an exhibition of Gilder Lehrman documents on display at the New-York Historical Society
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This booklet examines John Brown’s beliefs and actions in the context of growing national divisions over slavery in the 1850s. It concludes with documents and images highlighting the gradual acceptance by Americans of John Brown’s vision of racial equality.
Citizen or Slave: The Dred Scott Decision, 1857 (booklet, 35 pp) edited by James G. Basker and Matthew Pinsker
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The constitutional legacy of the Dred Scott case has been long lasting. What started as a “freedom suit” filed by Dred Scott and his wife in the St. Louis Circuit Court in 1846, erupted into a U.S Supreme Court case that ended in 1857. Read about the case details and political consequences surrounding one of the most infamous court decisions of our time. This booklet also includes a timeline of important dates.
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Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation (booklet, 48 pp) prepared by President Lincoln's Cottage, Washington, DC
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This story begins with the hideous contradiction between the ideals of liberty and the practice of slavery in America. From the seed of ‘slavery containment’ within the fifteen slave states grew a national law banning slavery, crafted in large part by the words and actions of Abraham Lincoln. Read primary source documents that take you on a journey through the evolution of liberty, culminating with the Emancipation Proclamation and Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address. This book focuses on Lincoln’s words and actions to abolish slavery in the decade before he signed the 13th Amendment in 1865.
Abraham Lincoln in His Own Words: An Intimate View of Our Greatest President (booklet, 52 pp) edited by James G. Basker
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More has been written about Abraham Lincoln than any other American, yet our view of him is dominated by a series of iconic images: the self-taught son of an illiterate farmer; the bearded man in the stovepipe hat; the savior of the Union; the Great Emancipator; the martyred leader. But what has made Lincoln such a great man? His letters and manuscripts allow us to understand his principles by drawing from his own words. Explore Abraham Lincoln’s legacy through documents written in his own hand. Abraham
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Early American Abolitionists: A Collection of Anti-Slavery Writings 1760-1820 (paperback) edited by James G. Basker
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This compilation reprints fifteen anti-slavery texts that, almost without exception, have been out of print for nearly two centuries. The pamphlets, poems, letters, and other documents by anti-slavery writers-men and women, black and white-demonstrate that abolitionists were active in the early years of the American republic. The book's texts are reprinted with short introductions written by 12 Gilder Lehrman undergraduate history scholars.
Great Lincoln Documents: Historians Present Treasures from the Gilder Lehrman Collection (booklet, 88pp)
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This book explores subjects important to the life and times of Abraham Lincoln. It includes a selection of important documents, each with a transcript and brief commentary by an eminent scholar, to place it in historical context. The hardcover version is bound in red with a black spine and gold lettering.
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This booklet includes more than a dozen poems exploring the themes of slavery, abolition, and freedom. They open a window onto the complexity of slavery for the Revolutionary generation.
Wilberforce, Lincoln, and the Abolition of Slavery (booklet, 24pp) edited by James G. Basker
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This booklet presents a variety of original documents, images, and other material, from the Gilder Lehrman Collection and other archives, highlighting the story of the abolition of slavery in England and America between 1787 and 1865.
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Alexander Hamilton and the Creation of the United States (booklet, 36-page, full-color)
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A 36-page, full-color booklet of important and unique documents and images that tell the story of the life of Alexander Hamilton—immigrant, soldier, nation-builder— created in partnership with American Experience and PBS.
Treasures of American History: Documents Presented in Honor of New Citizens of the United States (book, 32-page, full-color)
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This full-color, 32-page book brings together a unique collection of American historical documents from the Declaration of Independence to the words and images of immigrants, and some of America's most dramatic struggles for equal rights—the abolition of slavery, the Civil War, and the women’s suffrage and civil rights movements. The hardcover version is bound in red with a black spine and gold lettering.
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"I take up my pen": A Souvenir Booklet of Civil War Soldiers' Letters (Booklet, 44pp)
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Drawing on an exhibition entitled “I Take Up My Pen” : Letters from the War at Gettysburg National Military Park, this book presents historic documents— soldiers’ letters, battlefield photographs, original engravings and paintings—that bring to life the actual human beings who fought and endured the bloodiest war in American history.
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