Newport hanged 26 pirates at Gravelly Point in a public spectacle that ended the city’s pirate-friendly reputation.

Resistance is as American as, well, Thomas Paine who said: “The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear ...

The Lecturer's Art", McDougall often sounds like an Old Testament prophet warning his tribe of divine retribution.

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

Megan Kirby, who attended Thomas Paine Elementary School in Urbana as a child, returns to the school later this month as its ...

Inventory has been rising steadily over the past year, up 29% in June. Prices are still seeing big gains in the Northeast and Midwest.

"Robert Kennedy Jr., who is as dangerous as any of President Trump’s cabinet appointments AND noticeably silent on anything ...

Only six people attended his funeral. He was well known. Thomas Paine wrote the pamphlet, “Common Sense,” which was widely distributed and a major influence in promoting the American Revolution.

In a maximum-security facility in upstate New York, students tackled Samuel Richardson’s “Clarissa” and Tolstoy’s “War and ...

We have it in our power to begin the world over again,” Thomas Paine proclaimed in the pamphlet “Common Sense,” his argument ...

As we begin another month of the challenges to maintain the blessings of our freedom, we must expect, as Thomas Paine wrote, “Those who expect to reap the blessings of ...

The George Taylor House plays host Friday, July 4, 2025, to a reading of the Declaration of Independence that takes place ...