Williamsburg

The Voice That Could Not Be Ignored

Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry was not the most educated man in the House of Burgesses. He was not the wealthiest or the best connected. What he had was a voice — not just the physical instrument, which contemporaries...

What the Restored Town Gets Right and Wrong

People come to Colonial Williamsburg expecting a quaint colonial village, and what they find, if they pay attention, is a place where the most radical political ideas of the eighteenth century were fi...