REASON, PATRICK HENRY (1816-12 Aug. 1898), an African-American engraver and lithographer, was born in New York City to Michel and Elizabeth Melville Rison and was baptized Patrice Rison. He was ...

Revolutionary firebrand Patrick Henry bellowed, "Give me liberty or give me death!" while proposing to fellow Virginia leaders that the colony raise troops to battle the British on this day in history ...

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 ...

I knew that Patrick Henry gave the famous “Give me liberty or give me death!” speech — but that’s all I knew. Curious about this hero of the American Revolution, my wife, Carol, and I traveled to ...

Our Nation proudly commemorates the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry’s address to the Second Virginia Convention — a seminal moment in our great American story and a fateful turning point in America ...

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 ...