WHY DOCUMENTS MATTER: The Gilder Lehrman Institute

by James G. Basker (Editor)

Why Documents Matter, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

76 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2021

About the author

James G. Basker is President of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and Richard Gilder Professor of Literary History at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author or editor of several books, including Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery 1600–1810; Early American Abolitionists: A Collection of Anti-Slavery Writings 1760–1820; and Slavery in the Founding Era: Literary Contexts.