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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…