Cardinal News 250

The founding of Hampden-Sydney College during a revolution was partly a coincidence, but the founders were also anti-royalist — so much so that they named the school after two Englishmen who lost their lives as enemies of the crown.

Host Lisa Rowan sits down with local historian Eric Monday to explore western Virginia’s surprising role in the American Revolution.

We still profess our loyalty to King George III — our argument is officially with Parliament, not the crown — but there is no royal authority in the land except for whatever waterways around Norfolk that Lord Dunmore commands.

He turned up as an orphan of 4 or 5 on the dock of what is today Hopewell. He grew into a giant of a man who struck terror into the British. When he died, Virginia gave him a state funeral. Now a filmmaker wants to turn his story into a miniseries.

A young woman born in Virginia risked her life to carry ammunition to soldiers during a battle in what is now Wheeling, West Virginia, but what was regarded then as being very much in Virginia.

Renowned historian, author and George Mason University professor Rosemarie Zagarri talks to Cardinal 250 host Dutchie Jessee.

Washington hunkered down around Boston for a long siege but sent two armies north to try to persuade the French-speaking people of Quebec to join the revolution.

When British soldiers approached, Elizabeth Bennett Young, the wife of an Isle of Wight County deputy clerk, spirited the county records away and buried them.

Cardinal 250 podcast host Dutchie Jessee talks with Isle of Wight Museum Director Jennifer England about how Elizabeth Bennett Young saved those records, and why they’re so valuable.

When Thomas Jefferson’s term expired without a successor being chosen, this doctor from the Roanoke Valley took charge for eight eventful days.