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

Freedom was very important to Patrick Henry, who lived in a time with a lot of self-governance and liked it. Unfortunately, ...

Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...

The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...

Protesters inject politics into an event celebrating a great patriot, trying to ruin a historical remembrance that folks were ...

In 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. The landmark legislation ...

Amid a right-wing movement to censor classroom lessons and library books as America marches toward fascism, it tracks that ...

Delivered 250 years ago, the famous oration marked the height of Henry's influence. But the politician also served in key ...

The older marker, erected in 1929 by the Blue Ridge Committee of the Colonial Dames of America, refers to one raid, on Oct.

The National Constitution Center ranked Patrick Henry’s speech as one of the ten greatest speeches in American history, along with Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address,” Martin Luther King’s “I Have ...

Many bracketology predictions have a 10-loss Ole Miss team earning the final seed, but teams like Alabama and West Virginia could have a shot as well. One key storyline to watch is whether the Ivy ...

In March 1775, the Virginia Convention, the burgesses’ revolutionary successor, convened in Richmond and took the provocative step of establishing a volunteer militia, after Patrick Henry ...