This recording from 2011 is part of a history course at Yale University, taught by Historian Joanne B. Freeman (USA 2017).

This weekly podcast offers listeners an avenue to learn about a myriad of aspects of early American history, as well as the historian's craft (USA 2018). 

Paine has a claim to the title The Father of the American Revolution, which rests on his pamphlets, especially Common Sense, which crystallized sentiment for independence in 1776. (USA: Bill of Rights Institute 2021)

The compromise reached among state delegates during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention counted three out of every five slaves as a person (2018).

The 5 minutes video explains the Constitutional Convention's 3/5ths Compromise (USA 2018).

Interactive presentation on the creation of the document, adopted on July 4, 1776 (Library of Congress 2016)

Primary sources by the Library of Congress (2016)

This lesson focuses on the sections central to Paine’s argument in Common Sense (USA: National Humanities Center 2021).

ARTE-Dokureihe, Regie: Denis van Waerebeke (F 2019, 27 Min)

Thomas Paine's Common Sense was instrumental in shifting the argument from accommodation with Britain to outright independence for the American colonies (USA: EDSITEment 2021).