Common Sense (America 250 Edition)
9781429008075
Regular price $12.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The revolutionary pamphlet that helped light the fire of American Independence in an elegant hardback gift edition, proudly printed in America and beautifully stamped in celebration of America 250
Thomas Paine arrived in America from England in 1774. A friend of Benjamin Franklin, he was a writer of poetry and tracts condemning the slave trade. In 1775, as hostilities between Britain and the colonies intensified, Paine wrote Common Sense to encourage the colonies to break the British exploitative hold and fight for independence. The little booklet of 50 pages was published January 10, 1776 and sold a half-million copies, approximately equal to 75 million copies today.
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Paul Revere's Ride
9781557090720
Regular price $12.95 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Ride along with Paul Revere in this elegant hardback edition of Revere’s own account of his heroic ride as well as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poetic retelling, proudly printed in America.
This hardback gift edition includes the 1860 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem, Paul Revere’s Ride, as well as Paul Revere’s own account of the events. The famous midnight ride of April 18-19, 1775 raised the alarm among Massachusetts patriots that the British were on the move from Boston to Concord. Twenty years afterword, Revere wrote a letter telling the true account of his historic ride. Eighty-five years after the event, the ride and Revere were immortalized by Longfellow in his famous, if not completely accurate, dramatic poem.
The Star-Spangled Banner
9781557090416
Regular price $12.95 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Articles of Confederation
9781557094605
Regular price $12.95 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%This pocket-sized hardcover edition contains the preamble, conclusion, and all thirteen articles that make up the Articles of Confederation.
The original document—one of the United States' first governing documents—was passed by the Continental Congress in 1777, and later ratified by the states in 1781. Though the Articles of Confederation was not successful in creating a strong federal government, it did establish a set of rules for politics and governance that do—in some ways—still persist today. This document was replaced by the United States Constitution in 1789.
