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The American Crisis Before Crossing the Delaware?
Does saying so make it so? Perhaps, if said convincingly and repeatedly. But sometimes it’s fair to ask: Who says so? And how do... The post The American Crisis Before Crossing the Delaware? appeared...
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Adams vs. Paine: A Critical Debate
There is a tendency today to lump the Founding Fathers together as though somehow they thought alike, acted in unison and actually got along... The post Adams vs. Paine: A Critical Debate appeared...
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A Brief Publication History of the “Times That Try Men’s Souls”
Thomas Paine’s sensational pamphlet Common Sense, published anonymously in January of 1776, has a singular place of importance in the literature of the American... The post A Brief Publication History...
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Interview: Sarah Jane Marsh
Today, May 29, 2018, Disney Hyperion is introducing young readers to the American Revolution with Thomas Paine and the Dangerous Word, an eighty-page picture... The post Interview: Sarah Jane Marsh...
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Thomas Paine: Britain, America, & France in the Age of Enlightenment and...
Book Review: Thomas Paine: Britain, America, & France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution by J.C.D. Clark (Oxford University Press, 2018, 485 pages) BUY... The post Thomas Paine: Britain,...
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Thomas Paine Goes to Sea: A Pre-Revolutionary Tale
Coming up rapidly from behind the British privateer, the frigate suddenly lowered one national flag and raised another, the customary ruse of switching colors,... The post Thomas Paine Goes to Sea: A...
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The Rise of Thomas Paine and the Case of the Officers of Excise
The Rise of Thomas Paine and the Case of the Officers of Excise by Paul Myles (Lewes: The Thomas Paine Society UK, 2018) When John... The post The Rise of Thomas Paine and the Case of the Officers of...
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Presidential Power: Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and the Louisiana Purchase
In 1813, Thomas Jefferson received a letter from Marguerite Brazier Bonneville, a French emigre and Thomas Paine’s former caretaker. Bonneville asked the former president... The post Presidential...
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The Routledge Guide to Paine’s Rights of Man
The Routledge Guide to Paine’s Rights of Man by Frances A. Chiu (London & New York: Routledge, 2020) The American Revolution, John Adams famously wrote... The post The Routledge Guide to Paine’s...
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Rockingham, Washington’s Headquarters, 1783
George Washington slept here. After the commander in chief was summoned to Princeton, New Jersey during the summer of 1783, and finding no rooms... The post Rockingham, Washington’s Headquarters, 1783...
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Thomas Paine on Popular Government in America: Evolution of a Radical’s Thinking
It would be hard to find a more strident, vocal supporter of popular government during America’s founding period than Thomas Paine. The proposals put... The post Thomas Paine on Popular Government in...
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