Thomas Paine’s writing continued to support the Revolution, but once it reached a favorable conclusion, Paine returned to ...
Amid the campus grounds of Brandeis University, housed in the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections, is one of America’s most significant primary documents, a pamphlet, written by ...
Thomas Paine, a reluctant English tax collector and failed businessman who arrived in America on the eve of revolution, published "Common Sense" on this day in history, Jan. 10, 1776. "In the ...
In one of his stand-up sets, comedian David Cross rejects all political commentary that tries to answer the question, “What would America’s Founding Fathers think if they were alive today?” For Cross, ...
The 13 American colonies embraced government 'of laws, not of men,' and they strove to limit the power of future presidents.