Thomas Paine was a provocateur ... “These are the times that try men’s souls,” Paine wrote in “The American Crisis,” published in 1776. “The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot ...

"Common Sense" and "The American Crisis," seen together, helped start the American Revolution. And end it. This statue of Thomas Paine was presented to the people of England by the Thomas Paine ...

“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the ...

Thomas Jefferson. Later that same year, when the colonies were on their backs, Paine wrote in American Crisis the famous ...

I find myself thinking these days about the American revolutionaries, especially Thomas Paine. Paine immigrated from England to the American colonies in 1774 with a letter of introduction from ...

Thomas Paine, The American Crisis Thomas Paine was an Anglo-American political philosopher/writer who supported revolutionary causes in America and Europe. In 1737 he was born the son of a Quaker ...

It was amusing to see the American Revolution’s often-forgotten founder, Thomas Paine, transformed in recent years by the Tea Party movement as a right-wing icon. This likely had to do with his ...

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 ...

As patriots readied for battle and loyalists clung to the British crown, Thomas Paine published ... are early poisoned by importance.” Paine believed American democracy could not survive ...

Scott Stephenson gave a tour of the Museum of the American Revolution and discussed the impact that Thomas Paine's Common Sense had on the push for independence from Great Britain. Scott ...

Thomas Paine was born in England ... Within a year, Paine released a series of essays titled "The American Crisis" to inspire Americans to continue their fight against the British Empire.