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Opinion: From reconciliation to revolution — ‘Common Sense’ and the making of American independence
Before “Common Sense,” most Americans were not calling for independence, seeing it as risky and extreme. Even after ...
250 years after Thomas Paine published 'Common Sense', what can we learn from the revolutionary work today?
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! University of Maryland History Professor Richard Bell talked about what was going on in the American colonies in 1776. In 1774, Englishman Thomas ...
IN 1776 THOMAS PAINE, a traitorous Englishman living in the American colonies, published a seditious 47-page pamphlet. Called “Common Sense”, it became a best-seller. It argued that the colonies ...
That is how Donald Trump, early in his Inaugural Address, described the principle, or at least the slogan, that would animate his second term. It’s an exquisitely Trumpian formulation — tying the ...
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