Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jul 07, 2025
Francis Hopkinson was a musician, poet, artist, satirist, inventor, jurist, writer, and true Renaissance man of the American Revolution. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Hopkinson was the eldest…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jul 01, 2025
Wife, mother, property owner, and the “First Lady” of the United States, Martha Washington was known for her personal strength, devotion to her husband, and patient resolve during and after the war.…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jul 01, 2025
Betsy Ross is credited with stitching the first United States flag—a symbol of freedom that has since become the marker of American identity, patriotism, and pride. Born Elizabeth Griscom on January…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 30, 2025
Elbridge Gerry was a merchant, politician, and diplomat who served as the fifth vice president of the United States. Born on July 17, 1744, in Marblehead, Massachusetts, Gerry came from a family of…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 24, 2025
Thomas Heyward Jr. was born on July 28, 1746, at his family’s estate in St. Luke’s Parish, South Carolina. His father, Colonel Daniel Heyward, was a successful planter and businessman. Raised in a…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 17, 2025
William Hooper, born in June 1742 in Boston, Massachusetts, was a reluctant revolutionary. Raised by devoutly religious parents, his upbringing often placed him at odds with the growing revolutionary…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 17, 2025
William Floyd was born on December 17, 1734, on Long Island, New York, the second of nine children. His father, a successful farmer of Welsh descent, raised the family with a strong work ethic and…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 17, 2025
George Walton was born in Virginia and orphaned as a young child. Raised by an uncle with thirteen children, Walton taught himself by firelight at night while apprenticing as a carpenter. In 1769, he…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 17, 2025
Richard Henry Lee, born on January 20, 1732, at Stratford Hall in Virginia, played an indispensable role for American independence. Over a long public life, he served in the Virginia House of…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 17, 2025
Josiah Bartlett was a physician, statesman, and Patriot whose intellect and vision earned him a place among the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Born on November 21, 1729, in Amesbury,…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 17, 2025
George Wythe was a lawyer, judge, professor, and influential Founding Father whose contributions shaped the legal and political foundations of the United States. Born in 1726 in Elizabeth City…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 17, 2025
Lyman Hall was born in Wallingford, Connecticut, on April 12, 1724, as the fourth of eight children. He pursued his studies at Yale College, where he graduated in 1747. He became an ordained…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 16, 2025
George Read, born on September 18, 1733, in Cecil County, Maryland, was a self-made lawyer and patriot who helped shape the foundation of American government. He studied law at an early age and, by…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 16, 2025
Known as “Financier of the Revolution,” Robert Morris was indispensable to the cause of American Independence—using his commercial and financial brilliance to almost single-handedly propel American…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 16, 2025
Thomas Lynch Jr. was a scholar, legislator, farmer, soldier, and patriot who gave his life and family to the cause of American independence. He was the second-youngest signer of the Declaration of…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 16, 2025
John Penn, born May 17, 1741, in Caroline County, Virginia, emerged from an upbringing of little formal education to eventually become one of just 56 men to etch his name on the Declaration of…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 16, 2025
A respected lawyer, jurist, and public servant, William Paca was known for his quiet, razor-sharp logic and strategy—and his impact on Maryland politics before, during, and after the War for…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 16, 2025
Of the four signers from Massachusetts, Robert Treat Paine is lesser known today than John Hancock, John Adams, and Samuel Adams, yet he left a lasting mark on the founding of the United States. Born…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 13, 2025
Born on December 22, 1727, in Newport, Rhode Island, Ellery followed in the footsteps of his father, a prominent merchant and political leader, attending Harvard at the age of 16. After graduating…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 13, 2025
John Hancock, born on January 23, 1737, in Braintree, Massachusetts, is widely remembered for his prominent signature on the Declaration of Independence. His contributions to the founding of the…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 13, 2025
Richard Stockton was born on October 1, 1730, in Princeton, New Jersey. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, completed a legal apprenticeship, and…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 12, 2025
Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. Born on September 19, 1737, in Annapolis, Maryland, Carroll was one of the wealthiest and most educated…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 12, 2025
Born on April 13, 1743, near present-day Charlottesville, Virginia, Thomas Jefferson was the primary drafter of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of the United States. The son…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 12, 2025
Button Gwinnet was born in 1735 in Gloucestershire, England, to Anne and the Reverend Samuel Gwinnett, a minister in the Church of England. After Gwinnett married and had three children, he sailed to…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 12, 2025
Joseph Hewes, one of three North Carolinians to sign the Declaration of Independence, advanced the Revolution through his invaluable support of the burgeoning American Navy. He invested his own…