"These are the times that try men's souls..." Thomas Paine. The Crisis. Retrieved from http://www.ushistory.org/paine/crisis/index.htm
Thomas Paine, on of our founding father's, help to from the fledgling America through his writings. He along, with Benjamin Franklin, helps to create publishing media in the United States.
Throughout most of his life, his writings inspired passion, but also brought him great criticism. He communicated the ideas of the Revolution to common farmers as easily as to intellectuals, creating prose that stirred the hearts of the fledgling United States. He had a grand vision for society: he was staunchly anti-slavery, and he was one of the first to advocate a world peace organization and social security for the poor and elderly. http://www.ushistory.org/paine/
You can read his pamphlet, Common Sense here.
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Enjoy reading the presentations about the foundations of the 13 colonies and the type of media that was present in each colony. How did they communicate?
