Before George Washington crossed the Delaware, before Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, Patrick Henry lit the spark of rebellion. With nothing but his voice, he thundered the words that rallied a young nation. Eric Metaxas, author of “Revolution,” tells how Henry helped launch the American experiment—and why his message still echoes today. Watch […]

America won the war… then nearly lost the peace. The Articles of Confederation left Congress powerless to pay the Army—and in 1783, that unpaid anger nearly turned into mutiny. Before the U.S. Constitution, there was America’s first constitution: the Articles of Confederation—a “league of friendship” designed to prevent tyranny, but so weak it couldn’t reliably […]