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Jett Conner

Jett Conner

Jett Conner, PhD, is a retired political science professor, college administrator and academic policy officer for the Colorado Department of Higher Education. He studied the political thought of the American founding period during a National Endowment for the Humanities summer fellowship at Princeton University, and recently published John Adams vs Thomas Paine: Rival Plans for the Early Republic (Westholme, 2018). He’s enjoying retirement in Denver while pursuing numerous interests including travel, wildlife watching and reading and writing about the history and political thought of the American Revolution.

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Books and Publications, Constitutional Debate, Critical Thinking, Economics, Political Philosophy, Prewar Politics (<1775) November 29, 2022 November 29, 2022

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…

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Historic Sites, People, Postwar Conflict (>1783) April 15, 2021 April 11, 2021

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…

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Features, Political Philosophy, Reviews November 4, 2020 November 2, 2020

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…

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Critical Thinking, Letters and Correspondence, Postwar Politics (>1783) May 26, 2020 May 21, 2020

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…

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Features, Reviews November 6, 2019 November 5, 2019

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…

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Memoir, People, Prewar Conflict (<1775) November 6, 2018 November 6, 2018

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,…

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Features July 16, 2018 July 15, 2018

Thomas Paine: Britain, America, & France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution

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…

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Features, Interviews May 29, 2018 May 28, 2018

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…

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Arts & Literature January 4, 2016 January 10, 2016

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…

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Politics During the War (1775-1783) July 14, 2015 August 28, 2016

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…

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Critical Thinking February 25, 2015 August 28, 2016

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…

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