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How fake foreign news fed political fervor and led to the American Revolution

  • Written by Jordan Taylor, Adjunct Instructor in History, Indiana University
imageAn 1877 print called 'Concord - The First Blow For Liberty,' showing American patriots going off to fight the British on April 19, 1775.Print Collector/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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