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In 1991, Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman embarked on a mission to create one of the most important repositories of historical American documents in the country. Today, the Gilder Lehrman Collection contains more than seventy-five thousand items documenting the political, social, and economic history of the United States. These materials range from iconic historical treasures, such as the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, and the Emancipation Proclamation, to personal letters that tell the stories of citizen-soldiers and their families. Chronologically, the Collection ranges from 1493 to the end of the twentieth century. The main strengths lie in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly in the study of slavery and abolition. We have significant holdings across the twentieth century, especially in World War II and civil rights history, and we are actively acquiring additional materials from this period.

With a wide range of primary sources, the Gilder Lehrman Collection is a valuable resource for educators, students, and scholars. It has been the basis for joint exhibitions and educational projects with Mount Vernon, Monticello, the Huntington Library, the National Constitution Center, the Gettysburg Battlefield National Park and Museum, the New-York Historical Society, the Morgan Library & Museum, the American Library Association, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Of his first encounter with the Gilder Lehrman Collection several years ago, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Brion Davis wrote: "In the forty-odd years I had devoted to historical research . . . I had never encountered such a breathtaking single collection."

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This document, drafted by the Montgomery Improvement Association, advised victorious bus boycotters on best practices for riding the newly integrated city bus system.

When the document was distributed on Dec. 19, 1956, the bus boycott had been going on for nearly 12 months. The MIA, headed by Martin Luther King, Jr., coordinated the boycott throughout.

As what had initially been a short-term campaign of a few days stretched into weeks and months, the MIA organized carpools and weathered bombings and legal challenges. African-American citizens walked miles to work, and marched in protest.

In June 1956, a federal district court ruled bus segregation unconstitutional; the Supreme Court affirmed the ruling in November 1956. The MIA waited until December to declare an end to the boycott, wanting to make sure that the ruling would be carried out in Montgomery. Dr. King signaled the official end of the boycott by boarding an integrated bus on Dec. 21, 1956.

Gandhi-inspired civil rights leaders Glenn E. Smiley and Bayard Rustin advised King and the MIA during the boycott. This document shows how far the philosophy of non-violence had permeated the movement by the time of this victory.

Protestors riding newly integrated busses were told to ride with an ally ("Try to get on the bus with a friend in whose non-violence you have confidence") and to avoid conflict at all junctures ("Do not deliberately sit by a white person, unless there is no other seat"; "If cursed, do not curse back").

The MIA advocated quiet presence and "calm dignity" in victory: "Remember that this is not a victory for Negroes alone, but for all Montgomery and the South. Do not boast! Do not brag!"

"If you feel you cannot take it," the MIA finished, "walk for another week or two. We have confidence in our people. GOD BLESS YOU ALL."
Thanks to Nell Minow for pointing me to this document.

Inez Jessie Baskin Papers, Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama.

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Did you know that red is the first color that humans perceive, after black and white? It's the color that babies see first before any other, and the first that those suffering from temporary color blindness after a brain injury start to see again. Red's dominance is even reflected in how colors are defined: although different societies developed their names for colors at different times and in different ways, almost all of them named them in the same order. With only a few exceptions, the order of labelling colors was generally black first, white second, red third, and then green, yellow and blue.

Scientists have posited that societies developed names for colors according to which ones they had the strongest reaction to. This means that humans, supposedly much like bulls, have had strong feelings about the color red for thousands of years. Over time, red has come to symbolize power, love, vigor, and beauty. Do you want to know why? Take a journey with us through history to discover the surprising story of the world's most powerful color...

Red also made waves on the pre-historic art scene. Caves across the world, from Africa to Asia to Europe, bear traces made during the Paleolithic era. Drawings of animals, vessels, and people were made from painting red ochre on the cave walls, like this painting of a thylacoleo (an extinct species of lion) from the Djulirri rock art site in Northern Australia. More than 11,000 paintings have been found stretched over the site. Dated to 11,000 BCE, this naturalist animal painting may be the oldest surviving painting discovered there.

7. Raising Red Flags

World leaders have used red clothing as a way to showcase their power for hundreds of years. This portrait of Princess Elizabeth I before her accession as Queen shows a young woman preparing to assume her position as a powerful monarch. Her richly decorated red dress and red coif (close-fitting cap) send an unequivocal message of the young woman's political and moral strength. After the fall of the monarchy, the color red was then taken up by Revolutionaries around the world to symbolize new liberties and freedoms: from French Revolutionaries and their red phrygian caps, to the Bolshevik, Cultural, and Cuban Revolutions.

Courage, sacrifice, and love or anger, danger, and war? The color red can be associated with the happiest feelings as well as with the worst. Being the color that elicits the strongest reactions, it is no surprise that its symbolism can lie on both ends of the spectrum. So next time you're held up at a red stoplight (in this case the red is a symbol of danger), think about the color's revolutionary history (and maybe love too).

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World Population:

reached 8 billion on November 15, 2022 according to the latest United Nations estimates.

is projected to reach 9 billion in 2037, and 10 billion in 2058.

has doubled in 40 years from 1959 (3 billion) to 1999 (6 billion).

is currently (2023) growing at a rate of around 0.88% per year, adding around 70 million people per year to the total.

growth rate reached its peak in the late 1960s, when it was at 2.09%.

growth rate is currently declining and is projected to continue to decline in the coming years (reaching below 0.50% by 2048, reach 0 in 2086, and decline by -0.11% in 2100) .

a tremendous change occurred with the industrial revolution: whereas it had taken all of human history up to the year 1800 for world population to reach 1 billion, the second billion was achieved in only 130 years (1930), the third billion in 30 years (1960), the fourth billion in 15 years (1974), the fifth billion in 13 years (1987), the sixth billion in 11 years (1998), the seventh billion and eighth billion in 12 years each (2010 and 2022). During the 20th century alone, the population in the world has grown from 1.65 billion to 6 billion.

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The Library of Congress have compiled a list of 88 books that shaped America, which will be an exhibition to begin a multiyear "Celebration of the Book".

"This list is a starting point," said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. "It is not a register of the 'best' American books - although many of them fit that description. Rather, the list is intended to spark a national conversation on books written by Americans that have influenced our lives, whether they appear on this initial list or not."

We hope you will view the list, nominate other titles, and most importantly, choose to read and discuss some of the books on this list, reflecting America's unique and extraordinary literary heritage, which the Library of Congress makes available to the world.

Here they all are, chronologically, spanning 1751-2002. Interesting that only one book is from the 21st century.

"Experiments and Observations on Electricity" by Benjamin Franklin (1751)
"Poor Richard Improved and The Way to Wealth" by Benjamin Franklin (1758)
"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine (1776)
"A Grammatical Institute of the English Language" by Noah Webster (1783)
"The Federalist" by anonymous (1787)
"A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible" by anonymous (1788)
"A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America" by Christopher Colles (1789)
"The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin, LL.D." by Benjamin Franklin (1793)
"American Cookery" by Amelia Simmons (1796)
"New England Primer" by anonymous (1803)
"History of the Expedition Under the Command of the Captains Lewis and Clark" by Meriwether Lewis (1814)
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving (1820)
"McGuffey's Newly Revised Eclectic Primer" by William Holmes McGuffey (1836)
"Peter Parley's Universal History" by Samuel Goodrich (1837)
"The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass (1845)
"The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
"Moby-Dick; or The Whale" by Herman Melville (1851)
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
"Walden; or Life in the Woods" by Henry David Thoreau (1854)
"Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman (1855)
"Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy" by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
"The American Woman's Home" by Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe (1869)
"Mark, the Match Boy" by Horatio Alger Jr. (1869)
"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain (1884)
"How the Other Half Lives" by Jacob Riis (1890)
"Poems" by Emily Dickinson (1890)
"The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane (1895)
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum (1900)
"Harriet, the Moses of Her People" by Sarah H. Bradford (1901)
"The Call of the Wild" by Jack London (1903)
"The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois (1903)
"The History of Standard Oil" by Ida Tarbell (1904)
"The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair (1906)
"Pragmatism" by William James (1907)
"The Education of Henry Adams" by Henry Adams (1907)
"Riders of the Purple Sage" by Zane Grey (1912)
"Tarzan of the Apes" by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1914)
"Family Limitation" by Margaret Sanger (1914)
"New Hampshire" by Robert Frost (1923)
"Spring and All" by William Carlos Williams (1923)
"The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes (1925)
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
"The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner (1929)
"Red Harvest" by Dashiell Hammett (1929)
"Joy of Cooking" by Irma Rombauer (1931)
"Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell (1936)
"How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie (1936)
"Idaho: A Guide in Word and Pictures" by Federal Writers' Project (1937)
"Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
"Our Town: A Play" by Thornton Wilder (1938)
"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck (1939)
"Alcoholics Anonymous" by anonymous (Bill W. - Bill Wilson) (1939)
"For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway (1940)
"Native Son" by Richard Wright (1940)
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith (1943)
"A Treasury of American Folklore" by Benjamin A. Botkin (1944)
"A Street in Bronzeville" by Gwendolyn Brooks (1945)
"The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" by Benjamin Spock (1946)
"The Iceman Cometh" by Eugene O'Neill (1946)
"A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams (1947)
"Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown (1947)
"Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" by Alfred C. Kinsey (1948)
"Howl" by Allen Ginsberg (1956)
"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger (1951)
"Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White (1952)
"Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison (1952)
"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury (1953)
"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac (1957)
"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand (1957)
"The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Seuss (1957)
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee (1960)
"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller (1961)
"Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert E. Heinlein (1961)
"Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson (1962)
"The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats (1962)
"Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak (1963)
"The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan (1963)
"The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin (1963)
"The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Malcolm X and Alex Haley (1965)
"Unsafe at Any Speed" by Ralph Nader (1965)
"In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote (1966)
"The Double Helix" by James D. Watson (1968)
"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown (1970)
"Our Bodies, Ourselves" by Boston Women's Health Book Collective (1971)
"Cosmos" by Carl Sagan (1980)
"And the Band Played On" by Randy Shilts (1987)
"Beloved" by Toni Morrison (1987)
"The Words of Cesar Chavez" by Cesar Chavez (2002)

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A few of the 55,000 veterans who attended the reunion disembark from their train and head for the largest veteran gathering in Gettysburg history. They are remarkably overdressed for the summer compared with current standards. Note the “OHIO” on the lead veteran’s hatband. (Library of Congress)

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Actors who appear in the most award-winning films

States with a population less than Los Angeles County?

Drinking the pool - Stupid Calculations

How the US generates electricity

Who Owns the US National Debt

Video Game Genre Dominance

How Airline Ticket Prices Fell 50 in 30 Years and Why Nobody Noticed The Atlantic

CDC Nutrition Physical Activity and Obesity by location

Educational Attainment Map of America

Who Americans spend their time with

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The demise of live action PG films

Every Color Of Cardigan Mister Rogers Wore

Crayola Colour Chronology

Perceptions of Probability and Numbers

What Facebook Can Tell Us About Us

Cherry blossom peak bloom times shift

Trends in Men's Facial hair

Live TV watched by age group

A timeline map of the global median age from 1960-2060

Mapping how the United States generates its electricity - Washington Post

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Box Office Breakdown by MPAA Ratings

Actresses' ages vs their love interests'

The U.S. Map Redrawn as 50 States With Equal Population

Visual Ingredient Lists

The Federal Budget in 2015 An Infographic

Your Life in Weeks

LA County Population vs States

The Most Popular Colors On The Web

What 2,000 calories looks like

Interactive currency-comparison tool: The Big Mac index

The price to light a house from 1300 through today

Box Office vs Critical Acclaim

Sea World on google maps. Parking lot vs tank size.

A Map Showing Every Single Cargo Ship In The World

Which Fast Food Chain Gives You The Most Fries?

Want to increase escalator capacity? Why we don't just run the things faster.

Script analysis of "The Simpsons"

Olympic Medals per Capita

How populous is NYC? Big enough to fit 8 states into it.

Lots of graphs about healthcare costs

Look How Much Space Is Dedicated Solely to Parking in Downtown Denver

67 Years of Lego Sets

Google Maps Gets a 700 Trillion Pixel Cloudless Satellite Map

How the American diet has changed since 1970, animated infographic

Adam Sandler's box office in decline

Compared to Other Liquids Gasoline is Cheap

These Are America's Most Well-Read Cities

NYC subways have more debt than dozens of countries?

Many ways to compare Steph Curry and Michael Jordan

The Incredible Shrinking Plane Seat

Shrinking airline seats data

Does a bigger film budget result in more ticket sales?

Lots of images showing caloric density

US Highway length statistics

The case of the $629 Band-Aid

Shipping containers photographed from on high.

U.S. Cheese Inventories Soars

Roller Coaster DataBase

Stats about automobile usage and safety

San Francisco Hotels Are World s Priciest

World Population Growth

Soda vs Juice vs Energy Drink Consumption

How many digits of pi does NASA use?

Steph Curry is breaking basketball

Every Colour Scheme in MLB History

Coca-Cola's clever new trick

Tech companies: Revenue per employee

Top Grossing Movies That Never Hit #1

You Can't Trust What You Read About Nutrition

McDonald s kale salad has more calories than a Double Big Mac

How NBA shoe deals work

34,000 iPhones per hour

Migration map of American birds

Why Apple Has To Assemble in China

Lotteries: America's $70 Billion Shame

All of the World's Money and Markets in One Visualization

Amazon captures almost 40% of holiday shopping

Pace of Technology Adoption keeps speeding up

Girl Scout cookie prices going from $4 to $5 a box

List of the road mileage of every US state

What does the WHOs pronouncement about bacon really mean

US Chicken availability has tripled since 1965

America is full of high earners who remain poor

Scaling laws and the speed of animals

Food Deserts in the US

Rent in Vegas Commute to San Francisco - Save $1124 a month

Extrapolations from old stats

Tech products historical price trends

Bottled Water Sales Rising as Soda Ebbs

The Decline of 'Big Soda'

This Much of This Will Kill You

Emmys Draw Smallest Audience Ever Variety

Have donut holes gotten smaller? This compelling vintage chart says yes. - Vox

Hours of minimum wage to rent an apartment in each state

Infographic The Cost Of A Haircut In Major Cities Around The World DesignTAXI com

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Young Adults Living w/ Family Despite Improved Job Market

What we'll see from New Horizons' flyby of Pluto

American decline in driving began earlier than we thought

A 10,000 Square Foot Ball Pit Situated Within a National Museum Lets Visitors Experience the Beach Indoors

Actors with highest box-office grosses

Animated graph of 30 years in the music industry

Smart phones are slowing down service at restaurants

Popularity of US Girl Names Animated

Several charts about music industry sales

This ad doesn't know what 200 percent means

Graph doesn't know what one third looks like

video game console prices over time

U.S. Driving distance just flatlined

Apple Is Now So Huge That All The Other Giants Look Tiny

A Map of Time Zones

Truncating the Y-Axis

What Percentage Of State Lottery Money Goes To The State?

Smart Phone Damage Facts

America's Most-Ordered Ice Cream Flavors

The rise and fall of American smoking

Amazon chart with no labels

3 hedge fund managers earn more than all kindergarten teachers combined

Prices of Education vs Stuff

Americans import 480,000 tons of lemons and limes per year

$2.2 billion in Disney theme park profits for 2013

Banks increase overdraft fees

Taxi Fares To Airports Around The World

Wal-Mart has a lower acceptance rate than Harvard

Why it's impossible to work your way through college

The Rise and Fall of Professional Bowling

Cities with the most selfies on Instagram

US Cities listed by area

A list of countries by tax rates

The Price Of A Pizza In 237 U.S. Neighborhoods

How iTunes crushed music sales

UPS avoids left turns to save gas

Weight of Water per Acre from One Inch of Rain

How many hours of minimum wage work it takes to earn a beer, by country.

Boeing 737 measurements

Total Tax Burden Per Capita By State

New York from the air

These calculators give different answers - Imgur

Twenty-Somethings' Expectations for Retirement Age by Country

How large would a lawn be to need constant mowing?

The evolution of gaming consoles.

Sleeping on planes, why one extra inch makes all the difference

The Incredible Shrinking Plane Seat

What If Countries Were as Big as Their Online Populations

Ratios of sugar to Krispy Kreme doughnuts

Time corrections for Big Ben's chime

Men's average height up 11cm since 1870s

Best selling video game consoles

Ages of the Founding Fathers on July 4, 1776

How the UK has changed shape since 16,000 BC

If CDs cost $15 where does the money go?

Double Stuf Oreos aren't actually 2x stuffed!

Average Annual Hours Worked Around The World

Animation of the aging US population

Which countries eat the most meat?

Why Does Theater Popcorn Cost So Much?

List of most expensive films

List of most common surnames in North America

Nerf Gun Statistical Analysis

The Cost of a Pack of Cigarettes by State

How long would it take to drink an Olympic-sized pool?

Like magic, the price to enter Disneyland just went up - latimes.com

NBA Official, Interactive Stats

Disneyland Yearly Attendance

Starbucks Stores Per Capita

hanukkah and thanksgiving overlap for the first time ever

How Much Caffeine Before I End Up in the E.R.?

What would a million pennies look like?

The 113th Congress, by the numbers

World's richest people got richer in 2012

Map of Chicago's Green Roofs

Diet Pepsi Quietly Changes Sweetener | TIME.com

Energy in Sports

20 Great Infographics

Median Book Length: 64,500 Words

A Statistical Round-Up of Income Inequality

College Acceptance Rates

What if I had bought Apple stock instead?

How tall can a Lego tower get?

Web Browser Market Share

How Much Caffeine Are You Drinking?

Elevator Researcher

Most common last names in North America

World's busiest airports

Longest reigning current monarchs

All Pokemon sortable by stats

The smallest fish in the world

The highest mountains

What is the frequency of the letters of the alphabet in English? - Oxford Dictionaries Online

100 Highest-Paid Athletes

U.S. states by date of statehood

Weekly earnings over time

Consumer Price Index Top Picks

Countries listed by population

Countries listed by total area

Image Comparing Pyramid Shapes Structures

Disney Park Blueprints: - All Aerial Photos

Recycled Egg Carton House

How many countries has England invaded?

Making Cents: online streaming

Time Zone Map

Egyptian Pyramid Data

Extremes on Earth

Olympic athletic records

Land speed records

Pictures of the World's Wildest Water Slides

McDonalds Nutrition (PDF)

Del Taco Nutrition

Taco Bell Nutrition Information

Roller coaster rankings

What If? 2012 Election Maps Without Universal Suffrage

Amusement park rankings by attendence

Top 1,000 websites

Calories burned in 1 hour

Snacks Lose Bad Reputation

Largest US cities by population

Largest organisms

Fastest organisms

Mickey & Friends Parking Structure Contractor

World's Most Expensive Burger

List of urban parks by size

List of best-selling Mario games

List of best-selling video games

Young Adults Who Have Finished High School And College

30 occupations with largest projected growth

The Four Seasons Visualized on Datavisualization.ch

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