Published anonymously in 1776 by an unknown Englishman who had just recently emigrated to North America under the advice of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine’s legendary pamphlet Common Sense went on to become one of America’s bestselling and most influential literary documents. In its brief…

The following which I have written is a fictional three-stanza song which represents the Rebels in the Revolutionary War, likely to have been written around the late 1770s. This song would possibly have been used to encourage American patriots to rise and fight for…