{"id":8855,"date":"2022-04-28T21:18:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T21:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/courses\/2019\/12\/23\/patrick-henry-forgotten-founder\/"},"modified":"2022-04-28T21:18:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T21:18:11","slug":"patrick-henry-forgotten-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/courses\/patrick-henry-forgotten-founder\/university-of-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Henry: Forgotten Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cGive me liberty, or give me death:\u201d Remembering Patrick Henry, the Forgotten Founder<\/p>\n

\tPatrick Henry was enormously popular during the American Revolution. Even Thomas Jefferson, who over time developed a deep loathing of Henry (some would say jealousy), had to admit that \u201cit is not now easy to say what we should have done without Patrick Henry.\u201d Edmund Randolph, a patriot leader in his own right, explained that \u201cIt was Patrick Henry \u2026 awakening the genius of his country, and binding a band of patriots together to hurl defiance at the tyranny of so formidable a nation as Great Britain.\u201d
\n\tYet, today, Patrick Henry is ill-remembered; most Americans might recall at best perhaps a snippet from a famous speech: \u201cgive me liberty, or give me death.\u201d The reasons for our historic forgetfulness are several: after the Revolution, Henry chose to oppose ratification of the U.S. Constitution, believing that it created a distant and too-powerful government, and he refused proffered position in George Washington\u2019s administration, diminishing his historic memory. Equally important, Henry died in 1799 shortly after a political campaign in which, at Washington\u2019s behest, he opposed Jefferson\u2019s and James Madison\u2019s ill-advised radical states\u2019 rights attack on the U.S. government, and Jefferson spent the next twenty-six years systematically attacking Henry\u2019s legacy.
\n\tPatrick Henry, who helped to ignite a revolution, deserves better. This course will explore how he over\u00accame challenges to reach the pinnacle of Virginia politics and unite Americans behind a challenge to Britain \u2013 the eighteenth century\u2019s super-power, why he opposed the U.S. Constitu\u00action, and why he then came out of retirement to defend the people\u2019s Constitution against the attacks of Jefferson and Madison.
\n\tParticipants should evaluate Henry\u2019s role in proclaiming a revolution and consider whether he had an equally important role in saving it. The course should also develop an improved appreciation for the complex political, economic, and religious forces that shaped the early republic. As a biographical course, it also demonstrates how personalities play an important role in even the most foundational national history.<\/p>\n

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\nThe background image for this webpage is Patrick Henry before the Virginia House of Burgesses by Peter F. Rothermel (1851) with special thanks to the owner, the Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation. The painting of Patrick Henry’s 1765 “Caesar had his Brutus” speech (discussed in the second lecture) is entirely romanticized — neither Henry nor the House of Burgesses looked at all like this — but it does show that hagiography of Henry, almost god-like veneration, began shortly after this death.<\/p>\n

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