Annotated Documents

• Documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection (1493-1865)

  Read more than 600 annotated documents from the Collection written by George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and many others dealing with American politics, diplomacy, and social history. 
  

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