05.01.07
The Gilder Lehrman Collection
I stumbled across the nifty online archive of the Gilder Lehrman Collection at the New York Historical Society. The holdings — some 60,000 searchable documents — include “manuscript letters, diaries, maps, photographs, printed books and pamphlets ranging from 1493 through modern times…[and] is particularly rich with materials in the Revolutionary, Antebellum, Civil War and Reconstruction periods.”
This amazing Collection includes marvels like “the first draft of the Constitution; thousands of unpublished Civil War soldiers’ letters; letters written by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass; and the writings of such notable women as Lucy Knox, Mercy Otis Warren and Catherine Macaulay.” And…ever, always…more.
They have a handy Document of the Week page, which also links to archives, various virtual exhibits, and all suches.
Thank you, Gilder Lehrman Collection!
