Thomas Paine's pamphlet "Common Sense" galvanized support for the American Revolution. It mocked the English monarchy, ...

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.

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

Thomas Paine was a career bureaucrat employed in trade regulation, fired several times for failure to inspect goods and dereliction of duty. Thomas Paine had a consultancy job with Napoleon, ...

The publication of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense caused a sensation in early 1776 as it explained the need for freedom. But it was a second series of pamphlets published on December 19 of that ...

NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. — More than 180 years after Thomas Paine’s remains were dug up and carted off to England, his disciples think it’s time to bring home the man who helped inspire the ...

You'd never know by looking at Thomas Paine's portrait with his fine clothes and his perfectly coiffed hair, but the National Portrait Gallery's Margaret Christman says Paine's contemporaries ...

What American, if any, from the early 21st century will be honored with a statue in preparation for the country’s 500th birthday? Remembering Paine’s passion for freedom may incrementally increase the ...

Thomas Paine's pamphlet "Common Sense" galvanized support for the American Revolution. It mocked the English monarchy, ...

Thomas Paine’s pamphlet “Common Sense” galvanized support for the American Revolution. It mocked the English monarchy, calling hereditary succession “a degradation and lessening of ourselves” and “an ...