But Thomas Paine (whom I never think of as “Tom ... Paine had no patience for those with unexamined lives. He was sharp, funny and relentless. “To argue with a man who has renounced 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 ...

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 ...

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.

Indeed, It is doubtful, historians believe, that Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence would have found such fertile ground among the American public without the efforts of Paine. Thomas Paine ...

As patriots readied for battle and loyalists clung to the British crown, Thomas Paine published “Common Sense,” a fiercely persuasive pamphlet that united Colonists to fight against monarchy ...

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 ...

But one name I have yet to see anywhere prominently is the literary father of this country: Thomas Paine. It is mystifying. In a nation that loves to dramatize and memorialize its history ...

Thomas Paine transformed their resistance into a revolution with “Common Sense,” published in January 1776. Unlike other writers of the time, Paine didn’t adopt the gentlemanly style of a ...

As patriots readied for battle and loyalists clung to the British crown, Thomas Paine published “Common Sense,” a fiercely persuasive pamphlet that united Colonists to fight against monarchy ...