Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 07/10/2026“Staunch reformers” is a 1831 hand-coloured lithograph by John Dickinson showing a dense crowd of men at a London street-corner following the defeat of the Second Reform Bill. Men holding signs that include 'Tom Paine’s Rights of Man—one penny!!!', 'Union is Strength' and 'Reform, No Taxes'. 2205
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 03/10/2026During World War I, the American government sold War Savings Stamps to raise funds, using the words of Thomas Paine to rally the public with the famous opening paragraph of Paine's first American Crisis. Washington Times 1/25/1918. 0135
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 30/09/2026“Mr Burke’s pair of spectacles for short sighted politicians” a 1791 James Sayers etching depicting the political chaos following the release of Thomas Paine's Rights of Man Part 1. Paine supporters strike a tree that has signs including 'Holy Bible' and 'Hereditary'. thomaspaine.org/gallery/poli... 1113
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 29/09/2026A 1780 order signed by Thomas Paine during the during the American Revolution while he was the Clerk of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature formed under the Paine-influenced and radically democratic 1776 Pennsylvania Constitution. 1232
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 22/09/2026“The Preacher vs. The Patriot” an 1888 illustration by the Truth Seeker magazine's Watson Heston. A preacher is surrounded by clouds of ‘Tyranny’ and ‘Oppression’ as Paine stands opposite surrounded by clouds of ‘Liberty’ and ‘Equality’ while armies fight in the background. 0193
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 18/09/2026Thomas Paine's influence on early socialism: In 1837, the East London Democratic Association calls working classes to unite behind Paine's principles of "Universal Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, Annual Parliaments, No Property Qualification, and Equal Representation." thomaspaine.org/historic-new... 1185
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 17/09/2026Thomas Paine's image in an oil on canvas mural by Allyn Cox titled “The Library of Congress in the Capitol, 1800-1897”. The mural is in the first floor of the U.S. Capitol’s House wing known as Great Experiment Hall (Central East-West Corridor). 1141
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 15/09/2026A map showing the residences of Thomas Paine before and at the time of his death, on June 8th, 1809, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. The map was made in 1864 by John Randel. See more at the TPHA's "A Life in Images" gallery: thomaspaine.org/gallery/thom... 1111
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 14/09/2026The Thomas Paine Historical Association's YouTube channel has a new handle. You can find us at the link below — we invite you to visit, explore our content, and subscribe to stay updated on future videos. www.youtube.com/@thomaspaine... #ThomasPaine #History #AmericanHistory #YouTube 0144
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 14/09/2026The Thomas Paine commemorative stone at Ancient House Museum in Thetford, England with inscription incised on a rectangular block of limestone. See more at thomaspaine.org/gallery/monu... 0154
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 12/09/2026On June 25, 1801, Thomas Paine published his unsuccessful experiments on the use of gunpowder to drive an internal combustion engine for boat paddles. Steam engine pioneers John Fitch, Robert Fulton and James Rumsey all publically recognized the influence of Paine's experiments on their work. 1262
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 10/09/2026An 1819 cartoon titled “The Age of Reason or the World Turned Topsyturvy Exemplefied in Tom Paines Works!” by Isaac Cruikshank. A banner says: ‘No Christianity!!!—No Religion!!!—No King!!!—No Lords! No Commons!—No Laws! Nothing but Tom Paine & Universal Suffrage!!!’ 1134
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 08/09/2026Don't forget to register for the Paine event of the season, "Rediscovering Thomas Paine: What New Documents Reveal" at the Thomas Paine Historical Association: thomaspaine.org/about/events/ 0164
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 06/09/2026When Thomas Paine, James Monroe and Irish revolutionary Archibald Hamilton Rowan spent the day together - an anecdote from the Portland Advertiser 11/30/1830. Rowan was a founding member of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen and a champion of democracy. 0173
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 05/09/2026The White Hart Hotel in Lewes, England has been called the 'cradle of American Independence'. Here, Thomas Paine formed a democratic debating society ‘The Headstrong Club’. Paine left England for America in 1774. See more at our TPHA image galleries: thomaspaine.org/gallery/thom... 13611
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 03/09/2026The Beacon (Sept 2026) is here! Featured: "Paine's First Crisis: Truth or Consequences" — marking 250 years since The American Crisis first hit print. Also: The Birthplace of the Rights of Man, a Paine memorial in Washington, DC and Paine in Video Games thomaspaine.org/newsletters/ #revolution 0155
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 03/09/2026“What Wants Me?” a 1792 political cartoon by an unknown artist lampoons Thomas Paine who is surrounded by weaponry and expressions like revolution, atheism and "equality madness". See more Paine cartoons at: thomaspaine.org/gallery/poli... 0120
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 02/09/2026The London Corresponding Society’s 1794 letter to the members of the French Revolution’s Committee of Public Safety appealing to the committee and its unofficial leader Maximilien Robespierre to release Thomas Paine from prison – Courtsey of the American Philosophical Society 0141
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 01/09/20261811 newspaper ad offering the chance to "purchase the right of using" a machine for planing wood invented by Paine. The owner of the machine mentioned is Paine's good friend Marguerite Brazier Bonneville. Bonneville and her two children lived with Paine in America from 1802 until his death. 0100
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 29/08/2026The Thomas Paine statue in Parc Montsouris in Paris, France. It was dedicated in 1948 and created by Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore. It depicts Paine standing before the French National Convention arguing against the death penalty for King Louis XVI. thomaspaine.org/gallery/monu... 1248
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 28/08/2026"THOMAS PAINE, IRELAND AND THE IRISH GHOST" an article by Fergus Whelan writing in History Ireland (8/26) - Tracing Paine’s reception in Ireland from the publication of Common Sense to the extraordinary Irish circulation of Rights of Man. historyireland.com/thomas-paine-ireland-and-the-irish-ghost 0131
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 28/08/202695 Rue de Richelieu, Paris was he residence of Ambassador to France James Monroe where Thomas Paine lived for 2 years recovering from health problems after release from prison. Here, he wrote Age of Reason Part 2, Agrarian Justice and Dissertation on the First Principles of Government. 091
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 25/08/2026The first ever newspaper advertisement for Thomas Paine's Common Sense, published in the January 9, 1776 edition of the Pennsylvania Evening Post. 0135
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 22/08/20261833 Bombay missionary DEVASTATED that Hindu scholars got their hands on Thomas Paine's Age of Reason, published it in local papers, and started dunking on missionaries with it. He begs the American Bible Society to send reinforcements. thomaspaine.org/historic-newspapers/tom-paines-works-in-india/ 44311
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 19/08/2026“The universal church of the future” a 1883 illustration by Joseph Keppler and Adolph Schwarzmann envisioning a future where religion and science were one. Portraits hang of Copernicus, Darwin, Spinoza and Thomas Paine. See more at the TPHA Paine cartoon collection: thomaspaine.org/gallery/poli... 0175
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 18/08/2026Once you break the simulation there’s no going back. Escape Plato's cave with Paine. #revolution #philosophy 494
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 17/08/20261968 York Coin Club (PA) bronze token featuring Thomas Paine. Fun fact: Paine served as Secretary to the Continental Congress's Committee for Foreign Affairs from April 1777 until January 1779. #ThomasPaine #AmericanRevolution 0151
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 16/08/2026I sent an email to one of the editors. I will get back to you. You can see some Paine letters like that in archives like the Library of Congress. Is this what you are looking for...? thomaspaine.org/letters/to-j... 110
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 15/08/2026We are going to have a lot of it up on our website. Most is already available online, texts have been attributed to Paine. Is there one document you would like to see? 110
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 15/08/2026NEW EVENT - Rediscovering Thomas Paine: What New Documents Reveal Nearly 200 newly attributed works & 180 new letters are reshaping what we know. Hear from the editors behind this landmark discovery. 📅 Sept. 19, 1 PM ET | FREE 📍 New Rochelle + Zoom thomaspaine.org/about/events/ 2206
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 14/08/2026Thats interesting. Thomas Spence was famously the target of a lot of propaganda alongside Paine including on some coins. Do you know when he used the phrase "right's of man" 110
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 12/08/2026Get more Thomas Paine in your feed—and your inbox. Join the Thomas Paine Historical Association newsletter for our latest news, events & scholarship—plus FREE access to The Beacon and our peer-reviewed journal, Studies in Thomas Paine. Subscribe free: eepurl.com/jt_XqA 062
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 10/08/2026“That foe to Princes, Thomas Paine!” In 1798, the Irish revolutionary Arthur O’Connor was arrested by the British while attempting to reach France and was later imprisoned in Scotland. On his way to prison, O’Connor distributed this remarkable poem. #ThomasPaine #IrishHistory 1102
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 07/08/2026“The Great Champion Of Liberty – Thomas Paine” by Watson Heston from the Sep 8, 1894 Truth Seeker magazine shows Paine standing over a slain figure labled “kingcraft” and driving away another labled “priestcraft” while holding a paper reading 'Political and Religious Liberty'. 1237
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 05/08/2026Newsclip shows what happened to the ship 16 yr old Thomas Paine tried to join before his father stopped him. The doomed ship called "the Terrible was equipped at Execution dock, was commanded by Death, with Devil for lieutenant, and Ghost for surgeon". (Dec 6, 1862. Pilot. Vol 25, Num 50) 4173
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 04/08/2026A Federalist party political cartoon from the 1800 Presidential election. “The Providential Detection” depicts Thomas Jefferson attempting to destroy the Constitution supported by Satan with the writings of Thomas Paine and French philosophers. More Paine cartoons: thomaspaine.org/gallery/poli... 0206
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 01/08/2026For when you really want to express your desire kill a friend of humanity: Detailed instructions for the construction of a gallows and burning of a Thomas Paine effigy from December 19, 1792 in Southgate, London, England. 1195
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 26/07/20261792 Thomas Paine quote from his "Letter addressed to the addressers, on the late proclamation". Read the full text at the Thomas Paine Historical Association's online archive: thomaspaine.org/essays/frenc... 0227
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 24/07/2026An 1817 article with a dramatic "anecdote" of the printing of Thomas Paine's works during the ill-fated Englightenment-inspired Pernambucan revolution in Brazil. (Source: "Literary Notice." National Aegis, vol. XVI, no. 827, 3 Dec. 1817, p. [2]. Readex: America's Historical Newspapers) 0121
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 22/07/2026A British-funded political cartoon from 1792 titled “A Sure Cure for all Paines or The Rights of Man has got his Rights” showing Thomas Paine being excecuted for his advocacy for representative democracy over monarchy. 0233
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 14/07/2026Thomas Paine quote from the last letter of his life, addressed to Thomas Jefferson. See more at thomaspaine.org 13515
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 14/07/2026Images from an afternoon celebrating democracy, civic action, and the enduring legacy of Thomas Paine in Lewes, East Sussex on July 5th. Hosted by Democrats Abroad UK and featuring Thomas Paine Historical Association board member Paul Myles. Find more at thomaspaine.org 1144
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 12/07/2026Thomas Paine and the X-Men! The X-men discussed Paine in a 2022 comic book 'Sabretooth #3' from Marvel Comics and even mentioned the Thomas Paine Cottage in New Rochelle, NY! 2234
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 05/07/2026The earliest known draft copy of the Declaration of Independence has the following inscription, “A beginning, perhaps—original with Jefferson—copied from original with T.P.’s permission”. Is T.P. our Thomas Paine? Read the latest: thomaspaine.org/the-sherman-... 0213
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 03/07/2026The July edition of our Beacon newsletter is here! Get the latest news: The Collected Writings has been released. Paine's Thetford school under threat. New leadership at the TPHA. Access the free July Beacon here: thomaspaine.org/.../Beacon-v... 2162