407 Patrick Henry

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

Earlyrepublic, History, Benfranklin, Society & Culture, Warforindependence, Earlyamericanrepublic, Earlyamericanhistory, Education, Colonialamerica, Americanrevolution, Ushistory, Benjaminfranklin

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Patrick Henry is one of the most famous voices of the American Revolution. He was known in his own time for his powerful speeches and his unwavering commitment to liberty. But did you know that later in life, Patrick Henry opposed the United States Constitution? Did you know that during the political crisis of 1798/99, George Washington wrote to Patrick Henry and asked him to save the nation? In honor of the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry’s most famous speech, “Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death,” award-winning historian John Ragosta joins us to investigate the life and work of Patrick Henry. John's Website | Book Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/403 RECOMMENDED NEXT EPISODES 🎧 Episode 102: George Rogers Clark & the Fight for the Illinois Country 🎧 Episode 152: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution 🎧 Episode 188: The Alien & Sedition Acts of 1798 🎧 Episode 348: Valley Forge 🎧 Episode 350: The Revolutionary, Samuel Adams 🎧 Episode 374: The American Revolutionary War in the West 🎧 Episode 403: Re-evaluating the Presidency of John Adams REQUEST A TOPIC 📨 Topic Request Form 📫 [email protected] WHEN YOU'RE READY 🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener Community LISTEN 🎧 🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music 🛜 Pandora CONNECT 🦋 Liz on Bluesky 👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn 🛜 Liz’s Website SAY THANKS 💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts 💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.1	This speech gets picked up, and I've looked for it, and it's sort of hard to trace it in some ways.
1:09.9	But I find several months later, the
1:12.1	president of Yale University talking about give me liberty or give me death, militias around the
1:18.1	country start showing up in hunting shirts that have emblazoned across them embroidered, give me liberty.
1:24.9	And so this speech becomes sort of a rallying cry, not only in Virginia,
1:29.5	but around the country. So Henry becomes, the term is used later, but the trumpet of the American
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