"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!–Patrick Henry delivering his great speech on the Rights of the Colonies, before the Virginia Assembly, convened at Richmond, March 23rd, 1775. Concluding with the above sentiment, which became the war cry of the Revolution"

Patrick Henry Delivering His Celebrated Speech in the House of Burgesses, Virginia

Alfred Jones

Expulsion of Negroes and Abolitionists from Tremont Temple, Boston, Massachusetts, on December 3, 1860

Winslow Homer

Patrick Henry addressing the Virginia Assembly

Unknown artist

The Inauguration of Washington as First President of the United States, April 30th 1789 – At the Old City Hall, New York – The oath of office was administered by Chancellor Livingston of the States of New York – Mr. Otis the Secretary of the Senate holding up the Bible on a crimson cushion.

Currier & Ives, George Washington

Come in, Ladies and Gentlemen, Inside you'll see the Famous Lithographantoccini Family...Frontispiece for "Album of 1824"

Hippolyte Bellangé

The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

Waterman Lilly Ormsby, After John Trumbull, Cole & Co., Brooklyn, New York

Sketch of the Interior of St. Stephens, As it Now Stands

James Gillray

Old English-Gentleman Pester'd by Servants Wanting Places

James Gillray

Plate from Illustrations to Popular Songs

Henry Alken

Garrick Speaking the Jubilee Ode

Caroline Watson, After Robert Edge Pine, John Boydell, David Garrick, William Shakespeare

Patrick Henry Addressing the Virginia Assembly

Unknown artist

The Man of Words, The Man of Deeds, Which Do You Think the Country Needs?

After John Cameron, James Merritt Ives, Currier & Ives, Horatio Seymour, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee