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The 245th Anniversary of "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"
On this date, in 1775, Virginian Patrick Henry, a delegate to the Second Virginia Convention from Hanover County, Virginia sat in on the ongoing debate at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia. The 28-year old then stood to give … Continue reading
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Tagged 1775, 1776, COVID-19, Emerging Revolutionary War, Give Me Liberty of Give Me Death, Lord Dun, Patrick Henry, Phillip S. Greenwalt, Richmond, Second Continental Congress, St. John's Church, Virginia, Williamsburg
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Do You Know George Wythe?
Down the street from the Governor’s Palace in Colonial Williamsburg sits a two-story brick structure. Living historians, in first-person, debate the road to the American Revolution. But, who was George Wythe?
