“If not you, then who?” That was the inspirational, five-word question that Elliott Robinson from the Nashville Public Library put to students, teachers and parents assembled for the national launch of the Bill of Rights Institute’s MyImpact Challenge. BRI held its kick-off event for MyImpact Challenge – a national civics contest that will award $40,000 in prizes – at Nashville’s historic Scarritt Bennett Center on January 29 ...Read More
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Our nation’s founders liked to write. Better yet, the founders loved to write. Many of the founders were prodigious penmen. The Federalist Papers alone include 85 essays and roughly 180,000 words. Not only did the founders love to write, but they loved to have their writing circulated in broadsides, newspapers, pamphlets, and books. Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense sold nearly 500,000 copies by the end of the Revolutionary Wa ...Read More
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