On this site
Editorial & Research
Editorial framing for the canon and machine-harvestable surfaces for researchers.
Further Reading
Resources
A curated directory for those who want to read more, about Paine, his contemporaries, and the world he lived in.
Primary Sources
The Conway Edition
Paine's complete works in four volumes (1894-96), free to read, copy, quote, and redistribute.
Biography
Scholarly Biographies
The best published biographies of Paine.
- American Infidel: Thomas Paine -- Orvin Larson (1962)
- Filthy Little Atheist: Thomas Paine and American Freethought, Susan Jacoby (2013)
- Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, Susan Jacoby (2004)
- The Life of Thomas Paine -- Herman E. Kittredge (1911)
Digital Archives
Online Archives
Other reputable digital sources.
Historical Societies
Museums & Societies
Places that preserve Paine's memory and legacy.
Reference
Background Reading
Essential context on the Age of Revolutions and the political tradition Paine spoke into.
- Two Treatises of Government, John Locke (1689)
- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke (1790)
- A Vindication of the Rights of Men, Mary Wollstonecraft (1790)
- The Federalist Papers, Hamilton / Madison / Jay (1788)
- Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville (1835-40)
Related Fields
Philosophy & History
For readers pursuing the wider tradition.
- William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
- Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian
- Susan Jacoby, The Age of American Unreason
- Martin E. Marty, Modern American Religion
Know a resource I should add? Tell me.