Virginia Institute for American History
Sunday, September 19, 2021

Quotes from the Founders on Religious Liberty

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“Religious freedom is a fundamental human right and the first among rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution in the First Amendme...
Sunday, September 12, 2021

Traitors Against the King of England

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“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other out ...
Sunday, August 29, 2021

James Madison and Religious Liberty

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Dunking of Baptist Preachers in Virginia (1778) By: Joseph Loconte  "A wide-eyed and youthful James Madison, traveling in Culpeper Coun...
Sunday, August 15, 2021

Recollections of Joan of Arc

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“A young boy approached Mark Twain one day, after spotting the famous author standing alone on a stone bridge in Redding, Connecticut. Twai...
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Sunday, August 8, 2021

America the Beautiful

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The author of the hymn "America the Beautiful," Katharine Lee Bates, was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts in 1859 and grew up near ...
Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Frederick Douglass: "What to a Slave is the 4th of July?"

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Frederick Douglass (February 1818 - February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and writer. After escaping fro...
Friday, November 20, 2020

The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

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“The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom was one of the most important documents in early U.S. religious history. It marked the end of a ...
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