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CALENDAR OF EVENTS: November 29 – December 5 Ongoing until April 30, 2010 National Archives at Philadelphia, Free Picturing John Brown (exhibit) John Brown scholar Jean Libby’s photographic exhibit of John Brown images. Supplemented with rare John Brown materials and artifacts in Philadelphia from the Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia and a private collection. Exhibition …
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Wednesday, December 2 Historical Society of Pennsylvania/Library Company of Philadelphia, 6 p.m., Free The Empty Coffin: John Brown and Philadelphia A Talk by Louis A. DeCaro, Jr. After his death, John Brown’s body traveled through Philadelphia. Worried about the possibility of riots in the streets, the mayor devised a plan in order to sneak Brown’s …
John Brown: 150 Years Later is made possible by the efforts and cooperation of these organizations: Pennsylvania Abolition Society Incorporated in 1789, the PAS is a not-for-profit organization in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, founded by Anthony Benezet in 1775 and reorganized by Benjamin Rush in 1784. For nearly 235 years, the PAS has maintained a …
Thomas Paine: The Forgotten Founding Father. “The story of Thomas Paine – then and now, for the man and his ideas are very much alive today – stirs the heart, moves the mind, and routs the demon of despair.” Bill Moyers We are honoring the power of Paine’s radical pen with a series of events …
Thomas Paine: The Forgotten Founding Father Why should we remember Thomas Paine? Why is what he wrote and did over 200 years ago still relevant today? Let me tell you about Tom Paine. He died two hundred years ago, but what he did and what he wrote changed the world, and is still changing it. …
Thomas Paine in Europe A lecture on Paine in Europe and his work: The Rights of Man, Age of Reason, and Agrarian Reform by Jack Fruchtman, Jr. “Without the Pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been in vain.” Joel Barlow Thomas Paine turned a tax revolt into a revolution for independence with …
Our favorites: “The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.” “Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.” “Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But …
Recent News: Mumia Abu-Jamal Commentary on Thomas Paine via Socialistaction.org Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address, which quotes Thomas Paine via the New York Times Thomas Paine Organizations: Friends of Thomas Paine Thomas Paine’s Legacy Thomas Paine Memorial Thomas Paine National Historical Association Thomas Paine Society Thomas Paine Society UK Thomas Paine Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Tom Paine …
Steve Gulick performing The Crisis by Thomas Paine.
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