Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, published in 1776, helped galvanize colonial support for American independence. Photo illustration by ...
250th Anniversary of the Publication of "Common Sense" In part one of Books That Shaped America, University of Maryland History Professor Richard Bell explored Common Sense, a… Michael Stahler led a ...
Thomas Paine, a reluctant English tax collector and failed businessman who arrived in America on the eve of revolution, published "Common Sense" on this day in history, Jan. 10, 1776. "In the ...
His “Common Sense,” published 250 years ago, ignited the drive for American independence. That was hardly the end of the radical founder’s strange and winding story. By Jennifer Schuessler For Thomas ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new book is reexamining the legacy of American revolutionary Thomas Paine, best known for his work "Common Sense." Author and ...
Supporters press for a DC memorial to Thomas Paine, whose writings helped fuel the Revolutionary War
NEW YORK — Some 250 years after “Common Sense” helped inspire the 13 colonies to declare independence, Thomas Paine might receive a long-anticipated tribute from his adopted country. A Paine memorial ...
Two hundred-and-fifty years ago, on Jan. 10, 1776, Thomas Paine published words that changed the course of history: “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” Characterized by Paine as ...
Amid the campus grounds of Brandeis University, housed in the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections, is one of America’s most significant primary documents, a pamphlet, written by ...
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