Thomas Paine Historical Association
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The TPHA was established in 1884. We are the authority on Paine's life and have been assisting scholars for decades. Located in New Rochelle, NY. Visit us at thomaspaine.org. "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
I did not know that one of our founding fathers Thomas Paine in The Rights of Man proposed a 100% marginal tax over a certain level because he saw how wealth corrupts government #philosophy #FoundingFathers #tax #history #USA #progresive #government Interesting youtube.com/shorts/k0RZw...
A Level of Dangerous Wealth
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Steven K. Green joins the New Books Network podcast to discuss his new book, "American Infidelity," which tells the story of a nation's ideological tug-of-war—Christianity on one side, and the secular legacy of thinkers like Thomas Paine on the other. Listen now: oxford.ly/4zuP9TJ
1833 Bombay missionary DEVASTATED that Hindu scholars got their hands on Thomas Paine's Age of Reason, published it in local papers, and started dunking on missionaries with it. He begs the American Bible Society to send reinforcements. thomaspaine.org/historic-newspapers/tom-paines-works-in-india/
Support a Thomas Pain Statue in Washington D.C.. The Author of Common Sense inspired colonists to support a war with England which explained how a democracy could be set up as the new government. Submit Your Support for @thomaspaine.org mailchi.mp/secular/help... @secularcoalition.bsky.social
“The universal church of the future” a 1883 illustration by Joseph Keppler and Adolph Schwarzmann envisioning a future where religion and science were one. Portraits hang of Copernicus, Darwin, Spinoza and Thomas Paine. See more at the TPHA Paine cartoon collection: thomaspaine.org/gallery/poli...
NCMAC held a public hearing last week & announced a public comment period for citizens & prospective visitors to submit comments supporting the proposed Thomas Paine Memorial on the National Mall in DC. Make your voices heard in support of the memorial before the comment period ends on Sept 10.
National Park Service - PEPC - August 11, 2026 NCMAC Meeting -Submit Comments
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Once you break the simulation there’s no going back. Escape Plato's cave with Paine. #revolution #philosophy
I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Banned Book Club - The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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Listen to the Ideas Podcast with Gregory Claeys and New Books Network host, Caleb Zakarin who discuss Thomas Paine: Collected Writings. press.princeton.edu/ideas/ideas-... #podcast #history #ThomasPaine
Ideas Podcast: Thomas Paine at the Semiquincentennial
Thomas Paine: Collected Writings is the first major new edition of Paine’s works, bringing together all his writings in six breathtaking volumes that dramatically revise our previous understanding of ...
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1968 York Coin Club (PA) bronze token featuring Thomas Paine. Fun fact: Paine served as Secretary to the Continental Congress's Committee for Foreign Affairs from April 1777 until January 1779. #ThomasPaine #AmericanRevolution
NEW EVENT - Rediscovering Thomas Paine: What New Documents Reveal Nearly 200 newly attributed works & 180 new letters are reshaping what we know. Hear from the editors behind this landmark discovery. 📅 Sept. 19, 1 PM ET | FREE 📍 New Rochelle + Zoom thomaspaine.org/about/events/
From our archives: "Thomas Paine and His Radical Contemporaries" by Audrey Williamson in 1981. Trace the web connecting Paine to Wilkes, Rousseau, the Levellers, Marx and the Chartists who called Rights of Man their "Bible." thomaspaine.org/thomas-paine... #ThomasPaine #History
Thomas Paine and His Radical Contemporaries
Basically, like all the greatest writers on liberty, Paine was a humanitarian. Freedom, in Paine's view, could not be dissociated from political morality, and he sounded a warning note which still car...
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“That foe to Princes, Thomas Paine!” In 1798, the Irish revolutionary Arthur O’Connor was arrested by the British while attempting to reach France and was later imprisoned in Scotland. On his way to prison, O’Connor distributed this remarkable poem. #ThomasPaine #IrishHistory
“The Great Champion Of Liberty – Thomas Paine” by Watson Heston from the Sep 8, 1894 Truth Seeker magazine shows Paine standing over a slain figure labled “kingcraft” and driving away another labled “priestcraft” while holding a paper reading 'Political and Religious Liberty'.
Newsclip shows what happened to the ship 16 yr old Thomas Paine tried to join before his father stopped him. The doomed ship called "the Terrible was equipped at Execution dock, was commanded by Death, with Devil for lieutenant, and Ghost for surgeon". (Dec 6, 1862. Pilot. Vol 25, Num 50)
Join us to read banned/challenged books every Monday. August's title is The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine. Want to join me for this Indivisible event? mobilize.us/s/0hJdqk
I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Banned Book Club - The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Banned Book Club - The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine · Indivisible
Join us each month for a new book from our ever growing banned or challenged book list. Where we choose a new title each month and combine reading out loud in a group setting, reading alone, and discu...
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Okay last preview - finished (I think) of the USS Thomas Paine - I know! I know! Memory Alpha puts her down as a New Orleans class but we never SEE her on screen so maybe their records are skewed :P - rest assured the USS Renegade will still be a NO :D Next art share will be the finished piece
Ste Johnson@steillustrates.bsky.social · 3w agoRemind me not to paint a jungle coming out of a starship again. Taking forever.
A Federalist party political cartoon from the 1800 Presidential election. “The Providential Detection” depicts Thomas Jefferson attempting to destroy the Constitution supported by Satan with the writings of Thomas Paine and French philosophers. More Paine cartoons: thomaspaine.org/gallery/poli...
For when you really want to express your desire kill a friend of humanity: Detailed instructions for the construction of a gallows and burning of a Thomas Paine effigy from December 19, 1792 in Southgate, London, England.
1792 Thomas Paine quote from his "Letter addressed to the addressers, on the late proclamation". Read the full text at the Thomas Paine Historical Association's online archive: thomaspaine.org/essays/frenc...
An 1817 article with a dramatic "anecdote" of the printing of Thomas Paine's works during the ill-fated Englightenment-inspired Pernambucan revolution in Brazil. (Source: "Literary Notice." National Aegis, vol. XVI, no. 827, 3 Dec. 1817, p. [2]. Readex: America's Historical Newspapers)
@thomaspaineha.bsky.social From the current @historyireland.bsky.social. Sold 40,000 in Ireland, more than in any other country?
A British-funded political cartoon from 1792 titled “A Sure Cure for all Paines or The Rights of Man has got his Rights” showing Thomas Paine being excecuted for his advocacy for representative democracy over monarchy.
Join me at Harvard Bookstore on Monday to talk about my new book, Radical Duke! A fascinating story of an English Duke who sided with the radicals in the 1760s and 1770s & hired Thomas Paine as a radical writer long before he came to America. Free event July 20, 7pm. www.harvard.com/event/daniel...
@adapalmer.bsky.social I was thoroughly enjoying your conversation about Machiavelli on the Dwarkesh podcast until Thomas Paine came up at 1:37:05. Shocking academic malpractice! Paine did not say "religion is vital to citizenship," did not say "religious education must be mandatory in schools,"...
