Description Thomas Paine's Common Sense was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, plainly laying out arguments for American independence from Great Britain.

Thomas Paine published "Common Sense" on this day in history, Jan. 10, 1776. He savaged monarchies, inspired the colonies to rebellion and sold the equivalent of 66 million copies today.

The revolutionary rallying cry 'Common Sense' — challenging authoritarian rule, countering the sway of the wealthy and upholding the will of the majority — is as relevant in 2025 as it was in ...

Thomas Paine's pamphlet "Common Sense" -- more than any other single publication -- paved the way for the Declaration of Independence. It was completed on Jan. 10, 1776, less than two years after ...

Thomas Paine's Common Sense, 1776 August 2, 2015 Description by Kenneth Hong, Brandeis undergraduate and special contributor to the Special Collections Spotlight. Amid the campus grounds of Brandeis ...

Paine, Common Sense. The effect of Paine’s post was immediate and electric. As historian Albert Marrin puts it in his biography, “Thomas Paine,” the pamphlet “spread like fire in dry grass.

Thomas Paine's Common Sense was published anonymously on January 10, 1776. This pamphlet plainly laid out arguments for American independence from Great Britain.

If not for “Common Sense,” the United States might not exist as we know it. Now, nearly 250 years later, Paine's pamphlet stands not just as a relic of history but as a blueprint for ...

“Common Sense” was more than a rallying cry; it was Paine’s effort to forge an American identity rooted in a commitment to self-governance and trust in the power of the many — not the few.