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 ...

I find myself thinking these days about the American revolutionaries, especially Thomas Paine. Paine immigrated from England to the American colonies in 1774 with a letter of introduction from ...

In his pamphlet “Common Sense,” published in Philadelphia in 1776, Thomas Paine wrote, “Absolute governments, (tho’ the disgrace of human nature) have this advantage with them, they are ...