Resources
Links
Videos
Several Thomas Paine videos are available online at http://tpnha.org.
C-SPAN’s American Writers Series: Thomas Paine Two and a half hour broadcast from the TPNHA Building in April, 2001.
Panel Discussion on Thomas Paine at the Left Forum
American Freethought has a four-hour documentary film series on the history of secularism and censorship in America.
Recommended
- Thomas Paine: Social and Political Thought by Gregory Claeys The best book on Paine’s political philosophy and its impact on history
- The Field of Imagination: Thomas Paine and Eighteenth-Century Poetry
- The Routledge Guidebook to Paine’s Rights of Man by Frances A. Chiu
- Thomas Paine’s American Ideology by A.O. Aldridge The first book to take Paine’s political philosophy seriously - oriented to the American Revolution
- The Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism by Staughton Lynd The breakthrough book on the American Revolution that puts Paine in a proper perspective - the new 2009 Introduction is flawed by the reliance on works mis-attributed to Paine
- Paine and Jefferson in the Age of Revolutions by Newman and Onuf, eds. Essays reflecting the current state of Paine Studies
- Thomas Paine by Audrey Williamson Great introductory biography
- Thomas Paine and the French Revolution by Carine Lounissi A must read book by every Paine enthusiast - objective, ground-breaking, and thorough.
Bios
- Life of Paine by William James Linton
- Life of Thomas Paine, Vol. II by Moncure Conway
- Life of Thomas Paine, Vol. I, by Moncure Conway
- Life of Thomas Paine by G. Vale
- The Cobbett Papers, ed. by Conway
- Thomas Paine (1870) by Robert Ingersoll
- Thomas Paine (1892) by Robert Ingersoll
- The Hall Manuscripts, ed. by Moncure Conway
- Life of Thomas Paine by Clio Rickman
- Foner’s Introduction to the Collected Works
Essays
- Applied Science of Thomas Paine
- New Political Writings of Thomas Paine
- Burying Thomas Paine by Gary Berton
- Lewis Lapham Speech at the 2012 International Conference for Thomas Paine Studies at Iona College
- Brief History of the Remains of Thomas Paine
- ‘Common Sense’ and its Meaning Today by Jack Fruchtman
- ‘Common Sense’ and the American Revolution by Harvey Kaye
- Congressional Testimony of Fred Friendly
- Epitaph by Clio Riickman
- How ‘American’ was Thomas Paine? by Jack Fruchtman
- How Paine Transformed Locke by Fayette Arnold
- Ingersoll’s Second Reply to NY Observer
- Life and Deeds of Thomas Paine by Ingersoll
- Link to Louse’s “Unwashed Infidelity”
- Linton’s Comments on Paine’s Habits
- Paine’s Anti-Slavery Legacy
- Portraits of Paine by Moncure Conway
- ‘Rights of Man’ in America by Alf
- Sonnet by Clio Rickman
- Testimonials to the Merits of Thomas Paine
- The Adventures of Thomas Paine’s Bones by Moncure Conway
- The Age of Paine by Jon Katz
- The Fate of Thomas Paine by Bertrand Russell
- The Great Liberator of Mankind by Elbert Hubbard
- The Philosophy of Thomas Paine by Thomas Edison
- The van der Weyde - T. Roosevelt Letters
- The Vindication of Thomas Paine by Robert Ingersoll
- Thomas Paine and the Declaration of Independence
- Thomas Paine as Political Theorist by Ray Polin
- Thomas Paine by Elbert Hubbard
- Thomas Paine Fights for Freedom by Richard Gimbel
- Thomas Paine, Pathfinder by Norman Thomas
- Thomas Paine’s Citizenship Record
- Thomas Paine’s Legacy of Equality by Ray Polin
- Thomas Paine’s View of Constitutions by Ray Polin
- Tom Paine - Revolutionist by Jean Simon
- Walt Whitman on Thomas Paine
FAQs
- Did Paine write these quotes?
- Did Paine die penniless?
- Did Thomas Paine live in Bordentown?
- Did Thomas Paine make corsets for a living?
- Did Thomas Paine support the U.S. Constitution?
- Does Thomas Paine have any descendants?
- Is it true that Thomas Paine first coined the phrase, “The United States of America?”
- Was Paine in favor of a redistribution of wealth?
- Was Paine present at the Constitutional Convention in 1787?
- Was Paine the real author of the Declaration of Independence?
- Was Thomas Paine a disheveled drunk?
- Was Thomas Paine a “failure” before coming to America?
- Was Thomas Paine a socialist?
- Was Thomas Paine an American citizen?
- Was Thomas Paine an anarchist?
- What is Paine’s position on the separation of church and state?
- What was Paine’s role in the American Revolution?
- What was Paine’s role in the French Revolution?
- What was Thomas Paine’s stance on slavery?
- What was Thomas Paine’s stance on Women’s Rights?
- Where are Paine’s remains, and does he have a gravesite?
- Which is correct “Tom Paine” or “Thomas Paine”?
- Why isn’t Paine recognized as a leading figure of the American Revolution?