Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, published in 1776, helped galvanize colonial support for American independence. Photo illustration by ...

The Loudoun VA250 Committee is sponsoring a pop-up presentation featuring a recreation of an 18th century-style public ...

The publication of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense caused a sensation in early 1776 as it explained the need for freedom. But it was a second series of pamphlets published on December 19 of that year that ...

The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a new series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George Washington, the Continental Congress, and the men and ...

Will Donald Trump, who says he “runs the world” and approved a picture of himself with a crown above the caption “Long Live the King,” soon have Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet, “Common Sense,” banned.

While Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence turned the smoldering embers of rebellion into the glorious fireworks of independence and revolution, it was a short pamphlet published six months ...

As Thomas Paine’s 40-page pamphlet Common Sense – published in January 1776 — had been the week’s assigned reading for the third lecture of Yale’s new “America at 250: A History” public course, I went ...