Author: Kenneth W. Burchell
Kenneth W. Burchell is a historian and Thomas Paine specialist presently at work on a six-volume collection of contemporary responses to Paine.
On the Bicentennial of the Death of Thomas Paine, June 8, 1809
Thomas Paine’s story is the story of America. To understand what happened to the revolutionary experiment that began at Lexington and Concord with the 1775 “sho t heard round the world”—to understand how we ended up in the present financial morass, the legacy of the so-called unitary executive—there is no better model than Paine’s life …