![]() ![]() ![]() Written for readers ages 6-10, this beautiful picture book includes a timeline of key events and sources for Paine’s writing quoted by Marsh throughout the story, which makes this title a perfect guide (and gift!) for young history explorers and trivia enthusiasts of all ages. Illustrations by Edwin Fotheringham accompany this inspiring journey of courage, failure, and resilience, as Paine’s story shows how it is possible to change the world with words. Within 14 months of moving to America, “Common Sense” was the first published work to call for American independence from Great Britain. Finally, on January 10, 1776, Paine published Common Sense, a forty-seven-page pamphlet that advocated American independence in language the common man could. ![]() ![]() In Thomas Paine and the Dangerous Word, author Sarah Jane Marsh presents the story of Thomas Paine, who crafted the famous pamphlet “Common Sense” while changing careers, visiting new cities, and debating issues with family, friends, and other political thinkers. They were joined by Eric Slauter, Associate Professor of English at the. How did Thomas Paine go from the son of an English corset-maker, destined to enter the family business himself, to unlikely American Revolutionary? How did he use the power of his writing to help spark American independence? Thomas Paine’s Common Sense was an argument against monarchy and hereditary privilegeand for American independence that first appeared anonymously in Philadelphia in January 1776. On July 7, 2022, our curators discussed Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense. ![]()
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