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 ...

The Thomas Paine Memorial Association (TPMA) is celebrating both the January 29 th birthdate of Thomas Paine and Black History Month, with an international event focusing on Paine’s significant ...

We do well on Memorial Day to remember that the struggle for liberty and justice was not settled by the break with British colonialism. It extends to this day. Statue of Thomas Paine writing Common ...

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. Imagine my ...

The sketch by Cobbett, who, from hating Paine, had become his ardent admirer, is based on manuscript notes prepared by Madame de Bonneville. "The Hall manuscripts": v. 2, p. 460-472. (Extracts from ...

That would be Thomas Paine, the man credited with turning the American Revolution ... more vigorously that you not take his word for it. Paine was a student of history, and history is chock-full of ...

It was amusing to see the American Revolution’s often-forgotten founder, Thomas Paine, transformed in recent years by the Tea Party movement as a right-wing icon. This likely had to do with his role ...

Earlier this week, the United States celebrated the 247 th anniversary of its declaration of independence from the United Kingdom of Great Britain,[i] though the latter did not formally recognize the ...

We speak with Ian Ruskin, actor and writer of the one-man show, "To Begin the World Again: The Life of Thomas Paine," and Thomas Patterson, Bradlee professor of government and the press at the Harvard ...

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 ...

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 ...

In one of his stand-up sets, comedian David Cross rejects all political commentary that tries to answer the question, “What would America’s Founding Fathers think if they were alive today?” For Cross, ...