Explore pivotal moments like the Boston Massacre, Patrick Henry's speech, and the British retreat from Boston that fueled ...

Cassandra Good - Author, First Family: George Washington’s Heirs and the Making of America A 19th-century lithograph of Patrick Henry's "give me liberty or give me death" speech Library of Congress ...

250 years ago this month, one of the most influential speeches in American history was delivered right here in Virginia. It was Patrick Henry’s spirited “Give Me Liberty or Give me Death” oration. Let ...

Here’s what we know: On March 23, 1775 — probably in the afternoon — a self-taught lawyer named Patrick Henry arose in a little white church in Richmond and unleashed a scorching, wig-blasting, Flying ...

Editor’s Note: This article is part of “The Unfinished Revolution,” a project exploring 250 years of the American experiment. Patrick Henry is generally treated as a second-string Founding Father. He ...

During a recent trip to Virginia, I was excited to get a peek inside the historic Saint John’s Church in Richmond, where Patrick Henry’s fiery speech once echoed and where congregations have continued ...

The phrase “Give me liberty or give me death!” has survived the centuries like a line in a Shakespeare play. War in the Mideast widens Iranian-Americans fear for relatives Trump pushes back on ...

America celebrates its 250th anniversary as a nation on July 4, 2026, the date the Declaration of Independence was signed. Leading up to that monumental moment, a number of key events occurred that ...

The phrase “Give me liberty or give me death!” has survived the centuries like a line in a Shakespeare play. It’s been expressed by protesters from the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising in China to those ...