Name: Patrick Henry: Forgotten Founder
Brand: University of Virginia
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Rating: 4.9 (99 reviews)

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“Give me liberty, or give me death:” Remembering Patrick Henry, the Forgotten Founder Patrick 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 “it is not now easy to say what we should have done without Patrick Henry.” Edmund Randolph, a patriot leader in his own right, explained that “It was Patrick Henry … 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.” Yet, today, Patrick Henry is ill-remembered; most Americans might recall at best perhaps a snippet from a famous speech: “give me liberty, or give me death.” 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’s administration, diminishing his historic memory. Equally important, Henry died in 1799 shortly after a political campaign in which, at Washington’s behest, he opposed Jefferson’s and James Madison’s ill-advised radical states’ rights attack on the U.S. government, and Jefferson spent the next twenty-six years systematically attacking Henry’s legacy. Patrick Henry, who helped to ignite a revolution, deserves better. This course will explore how he over¬came challenges to reach the pinnacle of Virginia politics and unite Americans behind a challenge to Britain – the eighteenth century’s super-power, why he opposed the U.S. Constitu¬tion, and why he then came out of retirement to defend the people’s Constitution against the attacks of Jefferson and Madison. Participants should evaluate Henry’s 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. Image Attribution: The 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....

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创建者 Maria C L

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Aug 31, 2020

Great lecture series on a founding father.

创建者 Beverly W

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Jan 3, 2025

Instructor was engaging and interesting!

创建者 Patricia H

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Dec 29, 2020

Really entertaining and I learned a lot!

创建者 Marek D

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Jun 16, 2019

Prof John Ragosta is a great teacher. :)

创建者 kevin p

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Dec 27, 2021

fun & very informative i learned a lot

创建者 Peyton R W

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May 25, 2021

Very interesting and informative.

创建者 Sam S

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May 1, 2020

Great Course and great instructor

创建者 Matthew L

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Aug 18, 2017

Very interesting and informative.

创建者 June S

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Jul 15, 2022

Quite informative and intresting

创建者 Claudette D

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Oct 12, 2022

Fabulous & great Professor.

创建者 patricia m

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Sep 20, 2020

very very interesting thanks

创建者 zoe g

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Aug 5, 2018

Great material and teacher!

创建者 ELIZABETH H

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Aug 20, 2024

EXCEPTIONALLY WELL DONE

创建者 Winston A W

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Nov 29, 2020

Excellent, thank you.

创建者 James S

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Apr 26, 2020

Outstanding Course

创建者 Will J

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Feb 17, 2021

Wonderful course

创建者 Joseph B

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Jun 7, 2024

Perfect!

创建者 dakota

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Sep 19, 2025

history

创建者 Kleber L d S

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May 6, 2020

Ótimo.

创建者周鄭州

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May 1, 2019

有趣！

创建者 Anne E

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May 31, 2022

The content of this course was fine. However, unlike other Coursera courses, this one was about 98% the talking head of the lecturer, with almost no interesting info appearing onscreen. Especially frustrating since in the final lecture, the instructor mentioned all these interesting places you could go to see aspects of Henry's legacy. I wish this would have been shown onscreen. I took off one star for the "talking head" aspect of this course.

创建者 Richard S

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Nov 21, 2020

This was very entertaining introduction the life and times of Patrick Henry. I found it instructive and well organized. It is not an in depth history of Patrick Henry or the Revolutionary Era, however, I believe the course accomplished what it set out to do; engage the student in thinking about Henry's time and how it differed from ours, and more importantly how some values stand the test of time.