Author name: Gary Berton

Gary Berton is President of the Thomas Paine Historical Association and an editor of the new six-volume "Thomas Paine: Collected Writings", a groundbreaking collection of Paine’s writings including almost 400 newly discovered and previously unknown works that will revolutionize Paine studies. The project will be published in 2026 by Princeton University Press.

Speech at the Juneteenth Event at the Thomas Paine Memorial Building June 19, 2021

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Beacon, Beacon September 2021

Paine is the benchmark, the inspiration, the guide, the inspirer of the secular democratic trend in world history. His legacy is all around us: in Black Lives Matter, in separation of church and state, in the sanctity of government for, of and by the people, in civil and human rights.

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