On June 8, 1809, 72-year-old Thomas Paine took his last breath inside a small house in Greenwich Village. The next day the ...

Friday marked the 10-month anniversary of Charlie Kirk's assassination, and it was also the end of a series of preliminary ...

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 ...

In celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we remember names like Jefferson and Washington.

Thomas Paine, who lived in Lewes, wrote a text that helped spark US independence from Britain.

In the wake of celebrating the 250th anniversary of American independence, we should also consider the role of lesser-known ...

In this week’s JOURNAL, Bill Moyers spoke with historians Harvey J. Kaye and Richard Brookhiser about the complex legacy of Thomas Paine, perhaps the most controversial of America’s founding ...

Paine was a direct witness to the desperation of late 1776. His exhortations to continue fighting kept the cause alive.

You'd never know by looking at Thomas Paine's portrait with his fine clothes and his perfectly coiffed hair, but the National Portrait Gallery's Margaret Christman says Paine's contemporaries ...

The manifesto leaned heavily on Isaac Newton’s theories in making a case for independence, and fellow founders drew on the notion to build a new system of government By Jo Marchant Illustration by ...

Born on February 9, 1737 (according to the Gregorian calendar), Paine was a brilliant essayist whose polarizing pen brought him praise and scorn on both sides of the Atlantic. Here are a few things ...

Thomas Paine and the Promise of America, by Harvey J. Kaye, New York: Hill and Wang, 326 pages, $15 "Every spot in the world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted around the globe," ...