Pamphlets. Primers. Sermons. Scriptures.
Before America had presidents or a Constitution, it had pages.
In the birth years of the Republic, fragile sheets of ink and paper carried more power than armies. Pamphlets were read in taverns, sermons thundered from pulpits, primers shaped schoolchildren, and soldiers carried Bibles into battle. These early pages discipled a people into liberty - and revealed the paradoxes that would shape a nation.
In this first volume of the Pages of a Nation series, Derek Hone uncovers:
How Thomas Paine's Common Sense sparked a revolution - and its hidden unbelief.
Why the New England Primer taught generations to read through Scripture.
How battlefield Bibles and pulpit sermons shaped soldiers' courage.
What Jefferson's "cut Bible" revealed - and what it could never erase.
The forgotten printers, poets, and preachers whose ink carried covenant fire.
This is not just history. It is testimony. Every page you hold is witness to a greater Page - the Living Word who still speaks.
Related Subjects
History