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This speech gets picked up, and I've looked for it, and it's sort of hard to trace it in some

ways, but I find several months later, the president of Yale University talking about give me

liberty or give me death, militias around the country start showing up in hunting shirts that have emblazoned across them,

embroidered, give me liberty. And so this speech becomes sort of a rallying cry, not only in Virginia,

but around the country. So Henry becomes, the term is used later, but the trumpet of the American Revolution.

Music is used later, but the trumpet of the American Revolution.

Hello, and welcome to episode 407 of Ben Franklin's World, the podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our early American past

have shaped the present day world we live in. And I'm your host, Liz Covart. Patrick Henry is one of the

most famous voices of the American Revolution. He was known even in his own time for his powerful speeches

and his unwavering commitment to liberty. But did you know that

later in his 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,

the Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death speech, award-winning historian John Ragosta joins us to investigate

the life and work of Patrick Henry. Now, during our investigation, John reveals information

about Patrick Henry's early life and how he became involved with politics.

What drove Patrick Henry to become a revolutionary and support the revolutionary cause?

And why George Washington believed that Patrick Henry was the one man who could save the United

States from itself during the political crisis of 1798-99?

But first, come join us in the Ben Franklin's World listener community.

The listener community is the place where you can submit questions for our guest historians.

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