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 ...

Tom Paine is one of the forgotten names of the American Revolution, but it can be argued that no other man was as important ...

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 ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Thomas Paine's Common Sense was published anonymously on January 10, 1776. This pamphlet plainly laid out arguments for American independence ...

Thomas Paine was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary whose 'Common Sense' pamphlet and Crisis papers were important influences on the ...

Re “America’s greatest Founding Father: Thomas Paine’s ... golden statue of Paine right in the center of town. I had read passages of “Common Sense” but had not known that Paine, who ...

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 ...