The challenge of memorializing the life of the deceased without resorting to religion was a problem that confounded H.L. Mencken, often remembered as 1920s America’s village atheist (though he ...

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 year that ...

“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that sticks by it now, deserves the love ...

This article shows that Thomas Paine's political theory defends what I call generational democracy. Paine takes human mortality as a starting point to flesh out a conception of democracy that affirms ...

Statue of Thomas Paine writing Common Sense in Morristown, N.J. (Joe Sohm / Visions of America / Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The first soldiers in the cause of the American experiment ...

A one-time New Rochelle High School student who has become a major collector of rare books will donate $1 million to Iona University's Institute for Thomas Paine Studies to advance the study of early ...