Paine’s timing for “Common Sense,” the first widely-read pamphlet proposing independence rather than pleading for rights and ...

“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind,” wrote the great English radical Thomas Paine in his hugely influential pamphlet Common Sense, calling for American independence ...

Porfirio Diaz's Plan of Tuxtepec, launched 150 years ago today, would bring Mexico a 30-year dictatorship of the sort Díaz ...

Discover Frederic Bastiat's influence as a 19th-century economist known for critiquing protectionism and promoting free trade ...