Political science professors believed that this question could be answered by examining a broad spectrum of writings from the Founding Era with the goal of identifying the sources cited in those writings. The researchers assembled 15,000 representative writings from that period and isolated 3,154 direct quotes in those writings. At the end of ten [...]
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One early textbook of great influence was The New England Primer. First introduced in Boston in 1690, it was a schoolbook from which Americans learned to read until 1930; it is what would today be described as a first grade textbook. Not only were many of the Founding Fathers raised on this textbook but they [...]
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As word of God’s Divine protection of Washington spread across the colonies, the Rev. Samuel Davies even referred to the incident in a sermon only a few weeks after the momentous battle. (Davies was a leader in the American revival known as the Great Awakening and was considered the greatest pulpit preacher in America.) Significantly, [...]
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When Americans were still British citizens before the Revolution, it had been illegal to print English-language Bibles in America, but with the final American victory over the British at Yorktown, that policy was terminated. Robert Aitken, a local Philadelphia printer, therefore approached Congress, seeking permission to print an English language Bible on his presses, pointing [...]
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