Analysis of the Thought Thomas Paine in Relation to the Ideologies of the Enlightenment and the American Revolution

FAIN: RO-11527-73

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Champaign, IL 61801-3620)
A. Owen Aldridge (Project Director: September 1973 to present)

To determine how the ideas of Thomas Paine were reflected in the ideology of the American Revolution and conversely how the climate of opinion in America during the Federal Period molded his mature concepts.