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Common Sense

Common Sense

by Thomas Paine

One of the most influential works in the history of Politics, Common Sense has ignited and created the need for freedom in Thirteen British Colonies. Though it was published anonymously initially, this book has the credit of highest number of copies read in the history of American publishing. Most important aspect of this book was the writing st..

Child Life in Colonial Days

Child Life in Colonial Days

by Alice Morse Earle

Child Life in Colonial Days is written by Alice Morse Earle. Every one of us irrespective of our financial conditions, always remember our childhood as the golden times of our life. It is a sad fact that children of colonial days were not enjoying their childhood as we did. From the day an infant of colonial days opens up eyes, it was a hard t..

The Lily and the Totem

The Lily and the Totem

by William Gilmore Simms

The Lily and the Totem is the historical account of the North American colony of Coligni, written by William Gilmore Simms, an American historian and novelist whose works had influenced the antebellum Southern literature to great extent.  His notable writings of poems, novels and anthropological works include Mellichampe, Lyrical and Other ..

Betty Alden: The first-born daughter of the Pilgrims

Betty Alden: The first-born daughter of the Pilgrims

by Jane G. Austin

Everybody has sympathized with Mr. Dick who could not keep King Charles’s head out of his memorial, and I hope everybody will sympathize with me who have been unable to keep Betty Alden in this her memorial so constantly as I wished and she deserved. But as the whole includes the less, her story will be found threaded through that of her people and..