St. John's Church put on an all-female reenactment of Patrick Henry's "Give me Liberty" speech last weekend. Why it matters: ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Sunday, March 23 marked the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech at St. John’s Church. Hundreds of Virginians gathered at the site ...

Several cities are taking the initiative to plant Liberty Trees in their cities on the day that Patrick Henry talked for over ...

The phrase “Give me liberty or give me death!” has been expressed by protesters from the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising in China to those who opposed COVID-19 restrictions in the U.S. in 2020. Malcolm ...

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 ...

In my last column, I started the story of Patrick Henry’s legendary “Give Me Liberty” speech, uttered 250 years ago this month. I ended with a provocative statement: we actually have no idea what ...

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 ...

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 ...

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On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry rose at St. John’s Church in Richmond to plead with Virginia’s revolutionary government to prepare for a war that he saw as inevitable. Four weeks before Lexington and ...