early newspapers

Philadelphia — A searing rebuke of slavery and a soaring defense of human equality, a 1774 newspaper printing of a letter written by African American poet Phillis Wheatley is now in the permanent c
Los Angeles – One of the earliest printings of George Washington addressing America's Jewish community, contained in the July 1, 1790 issue of the ''Massachusetts Spy: Or, The Worces
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