Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, published in 1776, helped galvanize colonial support for American independence. Photo illustration by ...

Thomas Paine's Common Sense is one of the all-time best-selling books in American history. It was read at establishments ...

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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 ...

A government of our own is our natural right. This was the heart of Thomas Paine's argument in "Common Sense," which was published 250 years ago today. That statement might sound exactly like common ...

Common Sense in the 21st Century: A modern call to civic renewal.