Jan. 21, 2009 to syllabus to "Nature and Significance of Radicalism" reading
 Declaration of Independence to Paine, Common Sense
to some questions for your consideration in reading on the Revolution and on Tom Paine

New: Paper Topic Instructions and Options

History 350: American Radicalism

I. Social Change and the American Revolution: Crowds and Mobs—Democratic Impulses?
Eyewitness account of Boston Tea Party, 1773

II. Implications of Ideological and Social Change

    A. Popular Sovereignty--End to Monarchy

    B. Constitution as Guarantee, not Grant, of Rights

    C. From Deference to Individualism?

III. Tom Paine: A Life of Paradoxes

A. Failure and Fame

   B. American nationalist and international revolutionary

   C. Radical and "advocate for commerce"

IV. Early Life and Disappointments

V. To America and Common Sense another online version of the document
A. Style

B. Contents
1. Independence
2. Republicanism
3. Nationalism
www.tompaine.com--activists today honor Paine another activist site praises Paine
  Tom Paine Nat'l Historical Association some groups still celebrate his birthday!

Tom Paine

1792 Cartoon: "Tom Paine's Nightly Pest"
Even before the publication of the Age of Reason, Thomas Paine was hated and feared for his political and religious radicalism by conservatives in England, where he had periodically lived since 1787. Paine fled to France in December 1792 to avoid trial for treason. In this cartoon, Paine sleeps on a straw pillow wrapped in an American flag, inscribed "Vive L' America." In his pocket is a copy of Common Sense. On the headboard are his two "Guardian Angels": Charles James Fox and Joseph Priestley. An imp drops a French Revolutionary song as he flees through a window, draped in curtains decorated with the fleur-de-lis. Confronting Paine are the spirits of three judges who will try him. The presiding judge declares that Paine will die like a dog on the gallows.