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 ...

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 ...

TPMA board members will each read a Thomas Paine Day proclamation as an example of how a proclamation can be written to honor the life of our freethought hero. Thomas Paine Day is celebrated on ...

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, “addressed to the inhabitants of America,” was a 47-page dynamo presenting the recently immigrated Englishman’s clear case for America’s independence from ...

Adams wrote to Jefferson, “Every day rolls upon us independence like a torrent. … History is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine.” It was quickly translated into French ...