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~ Propaganda in the Colonies ~

Thomas Paine's Common Sense was a brilliant persuasive essay. But it was also propaganda; an attempt to swing the hearts and minds of colonists to the idea of declaring independence from England.

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Mr. Wilensky is a fifth-grade teacher in Jefferson County Colorado, where he has been accused of teaching his Colonial America and Revolutionary War classes with enthusiastic zeal. Read More...