Perhaps no publication contributed more to the Colonials' drive for independence from Great Britain than Thomas Paine's ...

Thomas Paine published "Common Sense" on this day in history, Jan. 10, 1776. He savaged monarchies, inspired the colonies to rebellion and sold the equivalent of 66 million copies today.

The first soldiers in the cause of the American experiment were called to action by Thomas Paine, the radical pamphleteer who in 1776 declared: . We have it in our power to begin the world over ...

Thomas Paine didn't actually write crucial passage of 'Rights of Man', historian claims. Jonathan Clark: Paine 'couldn't have written' account of French Revolution ...

Paine retired to a 277-acre farm in New Rochelle, New York that had been given to him decades earlier by the state and he died there on June 8, 1809. That was not the end of his mortal remains.

Paine was a penniless immigrant from England who came to America later than the other Founders: 1774. He fell in love with America’s rugged democratic spirit and worked as an editor for a ...

Thomas Paine Memorial Association. Sponsors of the Monday, January 29, 2024 event are the Thomas Paine Memorial Association, Black Nonbelievers, the Secular Coalition for America, the Freedom From ...

Re “America’s greatest Founding Father: Thomas Paine’s recognition is long overdue” by Omer Aziz (Ideas, Nov. 26): There is a memorial to Thomas Paine but it is in Thetford, England ...