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Common Sense

Thomas Paine

1776

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Thomas Paine, Common Sense and a Plan for America

The constitutional ideas in Thomas Paine's famous pamphlet.

by Jett Conner via Journal of the American Revolution on November 20, 2025
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Inventing the American Revolution: On Thomas Paine’s Guide to Fighting Dictatorship

“How are free people supposed to stay free? One short answer: don’t trust anyone over thirty.”

by Matthew Redmond via Literary Hub on August 13, 2025

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John Adams, Jefferson's pamphlet on the Rights of British America, and Franklin's "Join or Die" cartoon.

What Actually Changed in 1776

The most consequential shift that year was not one of battle lines but of ideology.

by Edward J. Larson via The Atlantic on November 10, 2025

Portrait of Charles Lennox, the third Duke of Richmond reading by a tree.

Secrets of a Radical Duke

How a lost copy of the Declaration of Independence unlocked a historical mystery.

by Danielle Allen via The Atlantic on October 9, 2025

Political cartoon lampooning Thomas Paine and his beliefs

America and Other Fictions: On Radical Faith and Post-Religion

Thomas Paine, the most radical of American revolutionaries, perhaps most fully understood the millennial potential of the new Republic.

by Ed Simon via The Revealer on December 20, 2018

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Capitol Hill Needs Thomas Paine Memorial

Why is there still no memorial to Paine, the immigrant whose writing galvanized the American Revolution?

by Jeff Biggers via The Hill on October 21, 2018

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