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Common Sense

1776
R. Bell

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John Adams, Jefferson's pamphlet on the Rights of British America, and Franklin's "Join or Die" cartoon.

What Actually Changed in 1776

The most consequential shift that year was not one of battle lines but of ideology.
by Edward J. Larson via The Atlantic
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on November 10, 2025
Portrait of Charles Lennox, the third Duke of Richmond reading by a tree.

Secrets of a Radical Duke

How a lost copy of the Declaration of Independence unlocked a historical mystery.
by Danielle Allen via The Atlantic
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on October 9, 2025
Political cartoon lampooning Thomas Paine and his beliefs

America and Other Fictions: On Radical Faith and Post-Religion

Thomas Paine, the most radical of American revolutionaries, perhaps most fully understood the millennial potential of the new Republic.
by Ed Simon via The Revealer on December 20, 2018
Thomas Paine

Capitol Hill Needs Thomas Paine Memorial

Why is there still no memorial to Paine, the immigrant whose writing galvanized the American Revolution?
by Jeff Biggers via The Hill on October 21, 2018
Common Sense pamphlet

The Pamphleteers

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Gordon Wood talks about pamphlets, changes in the media environment, and the current state of historical writing.
by Gordon S. Wood, Scott Porch via Los Angeles Review of Books on September 24, 2015
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