... of the 1753 publication can be seen at: (http://www.gettysburg.edu/~tshannon/his341/pra1753contents.html) Franklin also published the first novel by author Samuel Richardson. Before the Revolutionary War, pamphlets challenging the right of Parliament to govern the colonies began to be produced and inspired an interest in reading. Thomas Paine published a 47-page pamphlet called Common Sense in ... of the Revolution, it encouraged the colonists to strengthen their determination, resulting in the first successful anticolonial action. Following the war, book publishing centers where establi...

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... adored so the United States could move on from being divided and creating a sense of recovery. Stowe's novel arguably started the Civil War in America. In the words of Lincoln, "Is this the little woman who made this great war?"4 Whether or not Lincoln actually said these words, it is a reflection of just how important this novel was to not ... only the literary world but more directly to the public opinion in the 1850s about the existing conditions that the country accepted as humane4 ... ...

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