Thomas Paine and American Liberty
This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund Conference on “Thomas Paine and American Liberty.”
Guide to the Readings
Editions used:
See also in the Online Library of Liberty:
- Collections: The American Revolution and Constitution
- Collections: The French Revolution
- Collections: The Debate about the French Revolution
For additional reading see:
Session I: The Common Sense Revolutionary
The Writings of Thomas Paine, Collected and Edited by Moncure Daniel Conway (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1894). Vol. 1.
Session II: Rationalism in Politics
The Writings of Thomas Paine, Collected and Edited by Moncure Daniel Conway (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1894). Vol. 2.
- Rights of Man (1791) (first half of text)
Session III: The Theory and Practice of Liberty
The Writings of Thomas Paine, Collected and Edited by Moncure Daniel Conway (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1894). Vol. 2.
- Rights of Man (1791) (second half of text)
Session IV: A First Philosophy of Liberal Government
The Writings of Thomas Paine, Collected and Edited by Moncure Daniel Conway (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1894). Vol. 2.
- The Rights of Man. Part Second. (Chaps. 1-4)
Session V: Rationalism in Religion
The Writings of Thomas Paine, Collected and Edited by Moncure Daniel Conway (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1894). Vol. 4.
- The Age of Reason (Part 1) - (first half)
Session VI: Paine's Liberalism - Classical or Modern?
The Writings of Thomas Paine, Collected and Edited by Moncure Daniel Conway (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1894). Vol. 3.
The Writings of Thomas Paine, Collected and Edited by Moncure Daniel Conway (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1894). Vol. 4.
- The Age of Reason (Part 1) - (second half)