Anniversary of the Publication of "Common Sense" ...

As America celebrates its 250th birthday, remember the founder who rallied the people against British and American oligarchs.

We often make New Year’s resolutions to help us reach our personal goals for the coming year, but our nation’s founders set ...

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 ...

Hudson Valley author and historian Jack Kelly will speak about his book, “Tom Paine’s War,” at an event on Thursday, Jan. 15, according to an announcement. Kelly will be in conversation with Dick ...

Yet even as he defended democracy against autocracy, Paine sought a living religion grounded in reason—not superstition or sectarian dogma. For this, he was branded an infidel and atheist. In truth, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 American ...