1776. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, “addressed to the inhabitants of America,” was a 47-page dynamo presenting the recently immigrated Englishman’s clear case for America’s independence ...

It was Philadelphia in the winter of 1776. In the few years prior, the colonies’ faraway owner, Britain, had imposed taxation without representation and the so-called Intolerable Acts; colonists had ...

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

Following the start of hostilities, Thomas Paine acted first, publishing “Common Sense” in January 1776 ... the yoke of British sovereignty. In June 1776, Mason drafted the Virginia ...

Donald Trump is perfectly positioned to lead a patriotic renewal. While others talk about patriotism, he acts.

This Blast from the Past article was initially published in the first issue of Army Logistician (the former title of Army ...

The Colorado congresswoman’s inflammatory rhetoric has made her a national symbol of the Trumpist far right. She presents a ...

As early as 1776, for instance, a popular revolt inspired by Thomas Paine’s Common Sense overthrew the Pennsylvanian colonial ... All that changed on June 10, 1776, when the Philadelphia militia ...

We have treated all these groups of 15 or more as ‘estates’ in our current record-keeping: we will go through in future to try to identify where these were actually estates in the sense of land ...

The revolutionary rallying cry 'Common Sense' — challenging authoritarian rule, countering the sway of the wealthy and ...