Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine: Whistleblower.
Prior to the Franco-American alliance of 1778, and while France was technically neutral, American commissioner Silas Deane profited greatly by skimming money from a clandestine system that transferred arms from France to the American patriots. After fellow American...
Thomas Paine on War (and other Founders too)
Outspoken and famous for writing “The Crisis,” “Common Sense,” and “The Rights of Man,” Thomas Paine had some choice words about war that people would do well to read and heed today. Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: November 22, 2019 PODCAST VERSION...
The Struggle for American Independence: Common Sense
Before covering the subject of independence, I would be remiss not to include information on America’s most famous pro-independence pamphleteer, Thomas Paine. This lesson tackles some of Paine’s background, his ideas, and the chief arguments in his famous tract Common...
Today in History: Parliament Repeals the Stamp Act
Today in 1766, British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, after months of protest from the colonies and British merchants. On the same day, it also passed the Declaratory Act, a pronouncement that Parliament’s authority in North America was supreme and binding upon...