British-born Thomas Paine helped inspire the 13 English colonies to declare independence and form the United States of ...

Paine’s timing for “Common Sense,” the first widely-read pamphlet proposing independence rather than pleading for rights and ...

A Philadelphia historian says Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," published 250 years ago, "changed the course of world history." ...

His “Common Sense,” published 250 years ago, ignited the drive for American independence. That was hardly the end of the ...

250 years after Thomas Paine published 'Common Sense', what can we learn from the revolutionary work today?

Legal Newsletter spotlights a reference to the revolutionary figure in a Supreme Court case that could re-emerge.

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

Historians wouldn't recognize the enduring power of Paine's 47-page pamphlet, published on Jan. 10, 1776, until the 1970s.

Before “Common Sense,” most Americans were not calling for independence, seeing it as risky and extreme. Even after ...

The American patriots’ inspired and inspiring quest for liberty was stoked by Paine’s ideas and rhetoric, and fundamental ...

The lessons of Thomas Paine, Pete Seeger and history itself are that inaction by summer soldiers and sunshine patriots will ...