Editor
Jon Ajinga — editor and maintainer. I built the site, transcribed the Conway corpus, and decide what goes in. Contact or GitHub.
Acknowledgements
The Conway Edition was assembled in 1900–1902 by Clinton P. Farrell with I. Newton Baker (Paine's former private secretary), Edgar C. Beall, and George E. Macdonald. The tables of contents and the volume index scholars still cite are their work. Farrell's 1900 Publisher's Preface remains the source of record for the canon's scope.
The transcription on this site is drawn from the Project Gutenberg e-text of the Conway Edition; the per-work portrait and gallery imagery comes from the Library of Congress and the Internet Archive. Per-transcription attribution lives in each work's history.
How to be credited
Send a correction, transcription, photo, video pointer, or essay through the Contribute page. When I accept a contribution, I credit you here under the appropriate role and in the per-work revision history at /works/<slug>/history/. The kinds of credit:
- Editorial — for blog essays and editorial framing on hub pages. Bylined on the published page; listed here under the work or essay title.
- Transcription — for textual corrections, OCR fixes, footnote restorations. Credited on the work's revision-history page; named here once a contributor has touched three or more works.
- Research — for biographical, bibliographical, or genealogical contributions to Biography, Timeline, Connections, or Family Tree. Sources cited inline; named here under the page touched.
- Media — for the Gallery or Videos. Each item carries its own credit line; major contributors named here.
Credit policy
If I accept your contribution, you choose how to be credited — full name, pseudonym, initials, or anonymous. I verify the contribution, not the contributor's identity. Credit, once published, is non-revocable; the Git history makes the contribution visible regardless. If you'd rather see the contribution withdrawn later, I can revert it and update the credit line to note the withdrawal.
Contributions are accepted under the terms of use: primary sources carry the source's license; editorial material is CC BY 4.0, and you keep copyright and the right to republish elsewhere.
What I won't accept
Plagiarism. Undisclosed AI-generated content presented as primary research. Polemic without sourcing. Contributions that advocate the things Paine himself opposed — authoritarian government, restriction of conscience. Submissions that exist only to drive traffic to a commercial site. Standards at Ethics and Colophon.