The Urbana Board of Education has announced the appointment of Megan Kirby as the next principal of Thomas Paine Elementary ...

URBANA — Urbana schools’ 2025-26 building leadership lineup is now set, with the appointment of a fourth new administrator ...

Paine was a penniless immigrant from England who came to America later than the other Founders: 1774. He fell in love with America’s rugged democratic spirit and worked as an editor for a ...

For years, tenants at the Thomas Paine Square Apartments, a 98-unit federally subsidized housing block in the Fillmore, have been living in fear of being overcharged or evicted. Mostly low-income, ...

If not for “Common Sense,” the United States might not exist as we know it. Now, nearly 250 years later, Paine's pamphlet stands not just as a relic of history but as a blueprint for ...

Thomas Paine published "Common Sense" on this day in history, Jan. 10, 1776. He savaged monarchies, inspired the colonies to rebellion and sold the equivalent of 66 million copies today.

The first soldiers in the cause of the American experiment were called to action by Thomas Paine, the radical pamphleteer who in 1776 declared: . We have it in our power to begin the world over ...

Thomas Paine Memorial Association. Sponsors of the Monday, January 29, 2024 event are the Thomas Paine Memorial Association, Black Nonbelievers, the Secular Coalition for America, the Freedom From ...

Thomas Paine was born in England, came to the United States in 1774 and may have done more to create our nation than anyone other than George Washington and a handful of founders. His 47-page ...

Soon, Paine’s pamphlet was everywhere — whispered by soldiers in Valley Forge tents, shouted in Philadelphia taverns, quoted in sermons. With half a million copies sold by the end of the ...