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These historical resources will give educators, history buffs, and all Americans access to the system of values which began shaping our country in its infancy.

The Youth’s Companion, a weekly newspaper, was the second most-circulated publication in the US at the turn of the century. Published between 1827-1929, it has been credited with being a major factor in the formation of our nation’s value system,
including the creation of The Pledge of Allegiance.

This is a unique, primary source of history, an actual eyewitness account of what people were reading, writing, thinking, and saying at the time.
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