Born of modest, lesser gentry, no one would ever have guessed that this son of a frontier tobacco grower would go down in history as one of the most important and influential men America ever produced.Continue Reading
George Washington was born this day in 1732. His extraordinary life still resonates in us, the living, and will through the ages, to the yet unborn.Continue Reading
As a guerilla fighter, he had no peer in the War for Independence. As an officer in the Patriot forces of South Carolina, he provided leadership that engendered fierce personal loyalty. As a foe of the invaders, the desire for his capture or death sometimes determined the strategies of armies large and small. Though the...Continue Reading
The great patriotic artist John Trumbull’s iconic paintings have adorned the walls of many an American home and art gallery. The colorful and dramatic oil painting “The Death of General Warren at Bunker Hill” portrays the last moments of the life of one of the founders most devoted to liberty, though he died thirteen months...Continue Reading
Son of Scottish immigrants to Virginia and named after his clergyman-uncle, PatrickHenry with his ringing voice and unvarnished rhetoric led his countrymen into rebellion against the tyranny of King George; he was christened “The Trumpet of the Revolution.” As a youngster he had sat at the feet of the great preacher Samuel Davies during the“Great...Continue Reading
