Jane Hampton Cook describes how readers reacted to “Common Sense,” Thomas Paine’s popular pamphlet that rallied support for the American Revolution... (Read More)
Jane Hampton Cook describes the effect of “Common Sense,” Thomas Paine’s incredibly popular pamphlet that rallied support for the American Revolution... (Read More)
Plymouth Rock, a large boulder on the edge of Plymouth Harbor, Massachusetts, is traditionally identified as the place where the Pilgrims first stepped ashore from the Mayflower in 1620 to found Plymouth Colony. Plymouth Rock has been visited, celebrated, and written about for centuries. In 1835 Alexis de Tocqueville, a French author traveling throughout the... (Read More)
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