In this month’s episode, Ken Owen, Michael Hattem, Roy Rogers, and Ben Park discuss Thomas Paine, including reconsidering the importance of his most famous work, “Common Sense,” his life as an eighteenth-century transatlantic radical, and his legacy today compared to that of the other “founders.”
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Further Reading
Bernstein, R B. “Rediscovering Thomas Paine.” New York Law School Law Review 39 (1994): 873–929.
Cleves, Rachel Hope. The Reign of Terror in America: Visions of Violence from Anti-Jacobinism to Antislavery. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Cotlar, Seth. Tom Paine’s America: The Rise and Fall of Transatlantic Radicalism in the Early Republic. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Ferguson, Robert A. “The Commonalities of Common Sense.” The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series 57, no. 3 (2000): 465–504.
Foner, Eric. Tom Paine and Revolutionary America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Kenyon, Cecilia M. “Where Paine Went Wrong.” The American Political Science Review 45, no. 4 (1951): 1086–1099.
Loughran, Trish. The Republic in Print: Print Culture in the Age of U.S. Nation Building, 1770-1870. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
Nelson, Craig. “Thomas Paine and the Making of‘ Common Sense’.” New England Review 27, no. 3 (2006): 228–250.
Porterfield, Amanda. Conceived in Doubt: Religion and Politics in the New American Nation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Rosenfeld, Sophia. Common Sense: A Political History. Harvard University Press, 2011.
––––––. “Tom Paine’s Common Sense and Ours.” The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series 65, no. 4 (2008): 633–668.
West, Robin. “Tom Paine’s Constitution.” Virginia Law Review 89, no. 6 (2003): 1413–1461.
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