Patrick Henry introduced three resolutions to the Second Virginia Convention when he delivered his famous “Liberty or Death” ...

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 ...

Ahead of America’s 250th anniversary, historians are remembering an incident involving gunpowder in Williamsburg that helped ...

Last month, the Richmond museum opened its exhibition, “Give Me Liberty: Virginia & the Forging of a Nation,” with an array ...

16.Grace Episcopal Church (Yorktown, Virginia) — Built in 1697, Grace Episcopal is reportedly haunted by the spirits of Confederate soldiers who perished in the Civil War. Visitors claim to have seen ...

Costumed actors reenact the Second Virginia Convention and Henry’s famous speech. Alternatively, you can attend one of the site tours to learn about Patrick Henry. Afterward, take the audio tour ...

Smithsonian writer Andrew Lawler about these lesser-known histories.A transcript is below. To subscribe to “There’s More to That,” and to listen to past episodes about a baseball field resurrected in ...

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...

The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the ...