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(Set) What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity & America's Founding Fathers

(Set) What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity & America's Founding Fathers

(Set) What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity & America's Founding Fathers

Take a sweeping look at the people and ideas that built the United States of America. First, with America’s Founding Fathers, meet the people that helped establish a new nation. Then, in What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity, see how the leaders of this new republic reshaped the ideas of the past to lay the foundations for the future.

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