The 2024 presidential election painted a dismal picture — a country split red and blue, a near-even divide, reminding us how fractured we've...
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The Englishman's pamphlet helped spur the 13 colonies to declare independence from Britain.
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Thomas Paine anonymously published his influential pamphlet, “Common Sense,” which argued for American independence from British rule.
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Thomas Paine was born in England, came to the United States in 1774 and may have done more to create our nation than anyone other than George Washington and a...
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Thomas Paine was a provocateur, an agitator, and above all a brilliant writer, who had come to Pennsylvania from Great Britain and become a fierce advocate for...
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Paine's scathing criticism of organized religion, according to Harlow Giles Unger, author of Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence.
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In 1985 the White House chose Thomas Paine as chair of a National Commission on Space to prepare a report on the future of space exploration. Since leaving.
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The legislation will authorize the Thomas Paine Memorial Association to establish a memorial to Paine in the District of Columbia.
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On January 10, 1776, the publication of Thomas Paine's Common Sense became the first viral mass communications event in America.
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Historian Harvey J. Kaye has long argued that leftists are too negative about American history, and that our focus on its horrors and miseries risks...
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