Category: Thomas Paine – FORGOTTEN FOUNDING FATHER

Thomas Paine: The Forgotten Founding Father. “The story of Thomas Paine – then and now, for the man and his ideas are very much alive today – stirs the heart, moves the mind, and routs the demon of despair.” Bill Moyers We are honoring the power of Paine’s radical pen with a series of events…

Thomas Paine: The Forgotten Founding Father Why should we remember Thomas Paine? Why is what he wrote and did over 200 years ago still relevant today? Let me tell you about Tom Paine. He died two hundred years ago, but what he did and what he wrote changed the world, and is still changing it.…

Thomas Paine in Europe A lecture on Paine in Europe and his work: The Rights of Man, Age of Reason, and Agrarian Reform by Jack Fruchtman, Jr. “Without the Pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been in vain.” Joel Barlow Thomas Paine turned a tax revolt into a revolution for independence with…

Our favorites: “The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.” “Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.” “Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But…

Recent News: Mumia Abu-Jamal Commentary on Thomas Paine via Socialistaction.org Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address, which quotes Thomas Paine via the New York Times Thomas Paine Organizations: Friends of Thomas Paine Thomas Paine’s Legacy Thomas Paine Memorial Thomas Paine National Historical Association Thomas Paine Society Thomas Paine Society UK Thomas Paine Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Tom Paine…

Steve Gulick performing The Crisis by Thomas Paine.

Eric Foner is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. His books include Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War; Tom Paine and Revolutionary America; and the highly acclaimed Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, which received five awards, including the Bancroft and Parkman prizes. Since…

Moonstone Inc. & The Historical Society of Pennsylvania Present Thomas Paine: The Forgotten Founding Father Part 4 Thomas Paine and the Promise of America A Presentation by Harvey J. Kaye Wednesday April 22, 2009, 6pm Historical Society of Pennsylvania 1300 Locust Street, RSVP 215-732-6200 ext. 412 “I couldn’t put the thing down! The story of…

Join us to celebrate the life and work of one of Thomas Paine, one of America’s most influential and radical yet under-appreciated citizens. We will be holding monthly lectures, sponsoring a high school writing contest, and celebrating Paine’s life on the 200th anniversary of his death, June 8, 2009. Wednesday February 4, 2009: “Thomas Paine:…