Week One

Arrival in America and First Essay (Conway)

Development of Freethinking Religious Views

Major Milestones

Unlikely Revolutionary

Thomas Paine-Works

Archive of Paine Writings

Hero to Heretic

TPQ

Edison on Paine

Week Two

Ingersoll: “THOMAS PAINE. With His Name Left Out, the History of Liberty Cannot be Written.”

From Ken Burns, The American Revolution

Common Sense Quotes

Monarchy

What Would Tom Say?

Questions Paine Presents for Us

Liberty Tree

Thomas Paine Memorial Association

PBS:  Common Sense

Week Three

Thomas Paine and George Washington (Mount Vernon)

The Rights of Man

My Country and My Religion

The Age of Reason (Preface)

The Age of Reason (Outline)

Deism

Video:  Reason above Religion

Week Four

Thomas Jefferson on Thomas Paine (Monticello)

Religious

The Age of Reason (Outline, continue)

Week Five

Thomas Paine on Slavery (John Adams Institute) 

Religious Freedom Issues

Religious Freedom Commission

Religious Liberty (BJC)

Week Six

Excerpts from Agrarian Justice

“The Bones of Thomas Paine” (The Freethought Society)

Paine’s Revolutions for Today