Thomas Paine Historical Association

Thomas Paine Historical Association TPHA is a nonprofit historic association established in 1884 to honor the legacy of Thomas Paine. Entry is free.

We are the authority on the life, works, and legacy of Paine and welcome visitors to our new exhibits Saturday from 1-4pm. Thomas Paine Historical Association is a 501c3 non-profit organization headquartered at the Thomas Paine Memorial Building, located at 983 North Avenue in New Rochelle, New York 10804. We welcome visitors to our newly-renovated museum every Saturday from 1 to 4pm. Entry is free with an optional donation supporting the work of the TPHA.

When Thomas Paine, James Monroe and Irish revolutionary Archibald Hamilton Rowan spent the day together - an anecdote fr...
09/06/2026

When 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.

The White Hart Hotel, a 16th-century inn in Lewes, England, has been called the 'cradle of American Independence'. Here,...
09/05/2026

The White Hart Hotel, a 16th-century inn in Lewes, England, has been called the 'cradle of American Independence'. Here, Thomas Paine formed a radically democratic debating society ‘The Headstrong Club’. Paine left England for America in 1774.

See more at our TPHA image galleries: https://thomaspaine.org/gallery/thomas-paine-a-life-in-images/

The Beacon (Sept 2026) is here!Featured: "Paine's First Crisis: Truth or Consequences" — marking 250 years since The Ame...
09/03/2026

The 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

https://thomaspaine.org/newsletters/

“What Wants Me?” a 1792 political cartoon by an unknown artist lampoons Thomas Paine who is surrounded by weaponry and e...
09/03/2026

“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: https://thomaspaine.org/gallery/political-cartoons/

The London Corresponding Society’s 1794 letter to the members of the French Revolution’s Committee of Public Safety appe...
09/02/2026

The 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

This is a 1811 newspaper advertisement offering the chance to "purchase the right of using" a machine for planing wood i...
09/01/2026

This is a 1811 newspaper advertisement offering the chance to "purchase the right of using" a machine for planing wood invented by Paine. Paine had invented the machine to help him build models of his iron bridge. The owner of the machine mentioned in the ad is Paine's good friend Marguerite Brazier Bonneville. Bonneville and her two children lived with Paine in America from 1802 until his death and the family were the main beneficiaries of his will.

“Liberty, that is, the equality of personal rights.”— Thomas Paine, Agrarian Justice (1797)Note 3 in the Agrarian Justic...
09/01/2026

“Liberty, that is, the equality of personal rights.”
— Thomas Paine, Agrarian Justice (1797)

Note 3 in the Agrarian Justice text in the new Thomas Paine: Collected Writings draws attention to an important textual variation: “Conway translates the misinterpretation in the Ragouleau edition and writes: ‘The right of voting . . . is inherent in the word Liberty, and constitutes the equality of personal rights.’ That means the right to vote constitutes the equality of personal rights. In the Adlard-Desemmes edition, liberty is defined as an equality of personal rights. This obviously does not have the same meaning.”

Read Agrarian Justice in Volume III (1793–1809) of the new six-volume Thomas Paine: Collected Writings, published by Princeton University Press.

08/30/2026

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Applied Science of Thomas Paine by Albert DiCanzio "By disproving the Ptolemaic cosmology, Galileo gave credibility to notions of geokinesis and of self-directed society, relocating Earth away from the center of planetary motions, while laying groundwork for Paine to compensate for lost centrality by placing a self-directed society at the center of a world formerly dominated by monarchic and dynastic rule."

https://thomaspaine.org/resources-essays/applied-science-of-thomas-paine/

The Thomas Paine statue in Parc Montsouris in Paris, France. It was dedicated in 1948 and created by Gutzon Borglum, the...
08/29/2026

The 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.

See the TPHA image gallery of Paine monuments for more: https://thomaspaine.org/gallery/monuments/

"THOMAS PAINE, IRELAND AND THE IRISH GHOST" an article by Fergus Whelan writing in History Ireland (July/August 2026) - ...
08/28/2026

"THOMAS PAINE, IRELAND AND THE IRISH GHOST" an article by Fergus Whelan writing in History Ireland (July/August 2026) - 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

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