Thomas Paine Program
Video Clip List
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| Clip # |
Start Time
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| Description
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| 1 |
1:03.1 |
2:27.5 |
Overview of Thomas Paine and Common Sense |
| 2 |
2:28.0 |
3:26.0 |
How Thomas Paine came to be the author |
| 3 |
3:26.3 |
4:24.3 |
Length and style of the Pamphlet Watch | Back to Lesson |
| 4 |
4:24.6 |
5:00.9 |
New Rochelle connection
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| 5 |
5:27.8 |
5:52.8 |
Connection to 1960's radicalism |
| 6 |
6:35.4 |
7.49.9 |
Thomas Paine's exclusion from other Revolutionary figures (he was a "newcomer" and wrote against organized religion |
| 7 |
8:09.7 |
8:48.5 |
American Crisis paper, "These are the Times that try men's souls..." |
| 8 |
8:48.6 |
9:16.5 |
Role in the War as a propagandist (Quote about distinction between society and government) |
| 9 |
10:53.5 |
12:25.4 |
Basic biographical information: emigration from England; marriage; citizenship Watch | Back to Lesson |
| 10 |
14:01.0 |
15:43.4 |
Relationship with Thomas Jefferson; shared beliefs about independence and the common people; value of the Revolution to future generations |
| 11 |
15:54.1 |
17.04.6 |
Relationship to George Washington |
| 12 |
20:02.5 |
20:48.9 |
Reasons for going back to England |
| 13 |
21:09.1 |
23:29.3 |
Relationship to Benjamin Rush; Thomas Paine's literary style |
| 14 |
23:30.8 |
24:29.3 |
Quote "honest man" vs. "crowned ruffians"-new twist brought about by his declaration that monarchy was evil |
| 15 |
25:14 |
26:23.3 |
Thomas Paine's presence at all the "high drama" on both sides of Atlantic |
| 16 |
26:23.5 |
27:02.7 |
Two marriages in England |
| 17 |
27:45.8 |
28:46.2 |
Strongly anti-slavery, early abolitionist |
| 18 |
29:48.1 |
30:28.2 |
Quote "A continent ruled by an island"-argument for independence Watch | Back to Lesson |
| 19 |
31:01 |
31:28.3 |
Belief in the Bible |
| 20 |
32:28.1 |
33:24.1 |
Visuals of a first edition of Common Sense that was delivered to the New York Assembly |
| 21 |
33:24.3 |
34:42.9 |
Size & cost; publisher of second edition (does not include "written by an Englishman") Watch | Back to Lesson |
| 22 |
35:22.8 |
36:20.9 |
Deism and religious beliefs |
| 23 |
39:05.1 |
39:44.6 |
Visuals of the Crisis paper; their purpose-to inform and keep up morale, counter British propaganda |
| 24 |
39:44.7 |
40:30.9 |
He was humble; published anonymously |
| 25 |
40:55.1 |
41:40.9 |
What Paine's view of our democratic processes today would be |
| 26 |
41:47.3 |
43:36.9 |
Letter to George Washington (1796) related to debate between Federalists and Jeffersonians |
| 27 |
43:37.7 |
45:01.3 |
Imprisonment in France (1794-95) |
| 28 |
47:57.9 |
48:53.1 |
Indentured servants |
| 29 |
48:53.2 |
50:03.1 |
The appeal of Paine to all modern political perspectives Watch | Back to Lesson |
| 30 |
51:08.0 |
52:08.5 |
Involvement with the working class in Philadelphia; mini-revolution with the colony; comfortable with all levels of people |
| 31 |
52:09.7 |
54:01.8 |
Story of his burial; removal of his body to England; search for his bones |
| 32 |
54:35.6 |
55:38.3 |
Joel Barlow's role in publishing Age of Reason in France; Attributed to "Without the pen of Paine..." quote |
| 33 |
55:38.4 |
56:33.7 |
English slander campaign against Paine; token of Paine hung in effigy (re: Rights of Man) |
| 34 |
57:17.9 |
58:16.9 |
Rhetorical devices in writing about and to England; he was well-known to British authorities from 1776 onward |
| 35 |
58:17.0 |
58.44.5 |
Paine's citizenship; various oath-takings Watch | Back to Lesson |
| 36 |
59:48.1 |
01:00.47 |
Visuals and descriptions of trunk containing papers of the Continental Congress; his writing kit |
| 37 |
01:03:13 |
01:03:38 |
Visuals and description of artifacts: gloves and wallet |
| 38 |
1:03:40 |
01:04:23: |
Claims of descendents-no evidence to suggest any |
| 39 |
1:05:38 |
1:06:23 |
Indentured servants (continued); immigration from British Isles during 18th century |
| 40 |
1:06:24 |
1:07:37 |
Historian-the "real" Thomas Paine story and its power to disenfranchised people
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| 41 |
1:08:10 |
1:09:16 |
Search for bones (continued) and establishment of a memorial |
| 42 |
1:09:17 |
1:11:35 |
Stories about Thomas Paine and drinking; disparagement from original publisher of Common Sense and other enemies |
| 43 |
1:19:43 |
1:20:41 |
Visuals of biographical and associated historical information |
| 44 |
1:20:42 |
1:22:27 |
Thomas Paine as father of American Revolution; overview of biographical information |
| 45 |
1:22:28 |
1:22:48 |
Difference between War for Independence and "revolution" |
| 46 |
1:22:59 |
1:25:08 |
Thomas Paine cottage, including stuffed Thomas Paine |
| 47 |
1:25:19 |
1:27:31 |
Tour of the bedroom/parlor/artifacts |
| 48 |
1:27:57 |
1:28:47 |
Absorption and recycling of ideas from other political philosophers of the time |
| 49 |
1:29:25 |
1:30:05 |
Thomas Paine's education (common schools and self-taught), confirmation, staymaker, went to sea |
| 50 |
1:30:14 |
1:30:56 |
Works from 1775-1796: Common Sense, Crisis Papers, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, Agrarian Justice; work to help the poor uplift themselves |
| 51 |
1:30:57 |
1:31:34 |
Reasons for going to France in 1792 |
| 52 |
1:36:59 |
1:38:55 |
Recovery of Thomas Paine's skull; death mask |
| 53 |
1:38:58 |
1:39:47 |
Acceptance by the government upon his return to the U.S. Watch | Back to Lesson |
| 54 |
1:41:15 |
1:41:45 |
Why Paine did NOT write the Declaration of Independence |
| 55 |
1:41:49 |
1:43:31 |
Tour of Thomas Paine cottage kitchen; the remains of his tombstone |
| 56 |
1:44:28 |
1:45:19 |
Poetry; does not reference other writers; writes for people who are not familiar with history of political thought
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| 57 |
1:46:41 |
1:48:21 |
Refusal to accept money for political writing-conflict of interest Watch | Back to Lesson |
| 58 |
1:48:32 |
1:49:56 |
Common Sense as a shaper of American culture |
| 59 |
1:51:10 |
1:51:45 |
Essence of Common Sense |
| 60 |
1:54:35 |
1:55:04 |
Lock of Hair and brain stem |
| 61 |
1:56:19 |
1:57:49 |
Statues to Thomas Paine; memorial proposed in Washington, D.C. |
| 62 |
1:58:13 |
1:58:53 |
Fictional novel about Thomas Paine |
| 63 |
1:59:50 |
2:00:53 |
Influence of father, Quaker heritage |
| 64 |
2:00:54 |
2:01:44 |
Death in Greenwich Village; lack of memorials to Paine in the U.S. |
| 65 |
2:02:07 |
2:02:42 |
Napoleon and Thomas Paine; met in 1800-Napoleon admired Paine, but Paine was suspect of him |
| 66 |
2:02:57 |
2:03:59 |
Thomas Paine award in journalism |
| 67 |
2:05:02 |
2:06:20 |
Alexander Hamilton |
| 68 |
2:06:32 |
2:07:25 |
Development of bridge, illustration in Sutherland, England; impact on bridge-building |
| 69 |
2:08:05 |
2:10:20 |
Paine revered in labor movement, other social reformers; illegal to have his works in England, so they had a platter with the iron bridge on it; controversy surrounding Age or Reason
| 70 |
2:10:55 |
2:11:31 |
Man of the left?; ways to interpret Paine |
| 71 |
2:12:05 |
2:15:11 |
Ronald Reagan and the "2nd American Revolution" Watch | Back to Lesson |
| 72 |
2:15:12 |
2:15:44 |
Revolution as "sovereignty of the individual" |
| 73 |
2:16:49 |
2:17:56 |
Reasons for response to Age of Reasons's anti-Christian ideas |
| 74 |
2:20:23 |
2:21:30 |
Early life in England; mostly obscure |
| 75 |
2:24:12 |
2:24:46 |
John Adams; rumor about his being tarred and feathered in New Jersey |
| 76 |
2:25:16 |
2:26:10 |
His personal habits-bathing; reasons for misconceptions, role of historian |
| 77 |
2:28:46 |
2:29:42 |
Age of Reason, role of religion in democratic society |
| 78 |
2:31:25 |
2:32:42 |
Meaning of titles "common sense" and term "plain truth" | |
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