American Minute

• The American Minute: March 4
  MARCH 4th was Inauguration Day in the United States till the 20th Amendment made it January 20. MARCH 4, 1793, 1st [...]
• The American Minute: February 6
  A graduate of Eureka College, IL, 1932, he announced for radio stations in Iowa. He married Jane Wyman and had children [...]
• The American Minute: February 1, 2013
  Five dollars was all she was paid by the Atlantic Monthly Magazine for her poem, The Battle Hymn of the [...]
• The American Minute: January 28
  Seventy-three seconds after lift-off, on JANUARY 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, killing its entire seven member crew, which [...]
• The American Minute: January 25
  On JANUARY 25, 1941, Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote the foreword to a Special Military Edition of the New [...]
• The American Minute: January 23
  JANUARY 23, 1789, John Carroll founded Georgetown University. He was brother of Daniel Carroll, who signed the U.S. Constitution and [...]
• The American Minute: January 22
  JANUARY 22, 1973, the Supreme Court decisions of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton allowed abortion in all nine [...]
• The American Minute: January 16
  “Each year on JANUARY 16, we celebrate Religious Freedom Day in commemoration of the passage of the Virginia Statute for [...]
• The American Minute: January 15
  Martin Luther King, Jr. was born JANUARY 15, 1929. A minister like his father and grandfather, he pastored Dexter Avenue Baptist [...]
• The American Minute: January 14
  Albert Schweitzer was born JANUARY 14, 1875, in a village in Alsace, Germany. A Lutheran pastor’s son and acclaimed for [...]
• The American Minute: January 11
  Grandson of Princeton president Jonathan Edwards, he could read at age 4 and entered Yale at 13. He was a [...]
• The American Minute: January 8
  Though the War of 1812 was effectively over two weeks earlier with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, December [...]
• The American Minute: January 7
  Becoming the 13th President when Zachary Taylor died unexpectedly, he sent Commodore Perry to Japan and admitted California, which just [...]
• The American Minute: January 4
  Called the “Father of American Medicine,” he signed the Declaration of Independence, was Surgeon General of the Continental Army, and [...]
• The American Minute: December 31
  On DECEMBER 31, 1955, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, and founder [...]
• The American Minute: December 18
  “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” was a carol written by Charles Wesley, born DECEMBER 18, 1707, at Epworth, England. The 18th [...]
• The American Minute: December 17
  A peer of Mozart and Haydn, he started becoming deaf at age 28, yet incredibly wrote some of the world’s [...]
• The American Minute: December 13
  Phillips Brooks was born DECEMBER 13, 1835. The bishop of the Episcopal Church in Massachusetts, Phillips Brooks took a trip to the [...]
• The American Minute: December 11
  Alexander Solzhenitsyn was born in Russia, DECEMBER 11, 1918. He was arrested for writing a letter criticizing Joseph Stalin and spent [...]
• The American Minute: December 10
  After slavery ended in the U.S., President Grant spoke to Congress, December 1, 1873, of “…several thousand persons illegally held as [...]
• The American Minute: December 4
  Father Jacques Marquette arrived in Quebec from France to be a missionary among the Indians. Governor Frontenac commissioned him to explore [...]
• American Minute: November 27
  During World War I, Britain was ineffective manufacturing explosives, until a breakthrough in synthesizing acetone was made by Jewish chemist [...]
• The American Minute: November 26
  In order to thank God for the First Amendment, which was passed a week earlier by Congress, President George Washington [...]
• The American Minute: November 21
  French author Voltaire was born NOVEMBER 21, 1694. Yale president Timothy Dwight wrote of Voltaire in his Address “Duty of Americans [...]
• The American Minute: November 20
  On June 25, 1962, the Supreme Court stopped school prayer. Ronald Reagan said, March 6, 1984: “From the early days of [...]
• The American Minute: November 19
  NOVEMBER 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address where 50,000 soldiers were killed or wounded in a 3 day [...]
• The American Minute: November 14
  Born a slave, he taught himself to read, and attended school after working all day. At age 25, he founded [...]
• The American Minute: November 13
  The Vietnam War Memorial was dedicated NOVEMBER 13, 1982, honoring 58,000 American troops who died. U.S. forces inflicted over a [...]
• The American Minute: November 12
  High winds and treacherous tides along North America’s coast prevented the Pilgrims from sailing further south to join Virginia’s earlier [...]
• The American Minute: November 8
  “Ocian in view! O! the joy,” wrote William Clark in his Journal, but the next day, NOVEMBER 8, 1805, Lewis [...]
• The American Minute: November 6
  Did you know basketball and volleyball were invented by YMCA instructors? James Naismith, a medical doctor and Presbyterian minister, invented the [...]
• The American Minute: November 5
  Mercy Otis Warren was called “The Conscience of the American Revolution.” She was wife of Massachusetts House Speaker James Warren, [...]
• The American Minute: October 30
  John Adams was born OCTOBER 30, 1735. A Harvard graduate, he was admitted to the bar and married Abigail Smith [...]
• The American Minute: October 29
  OCTOBER 29, 1929, the New York Stock Exchange crashed. Panic ensued as Wall Street sold 16,410,030 shares in a single day. Billions [...]
• The American Minute: October 23
  President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed a Day of Thanksgiving, stating: “The season is at hand in which it has been our long [...]
• The American Minute: October 22
  OCTOBER 22, 1836, General Sam Houston was sworn in as the first President of the Republic of Texas. As a teenager, [...]
• American Minute: October 15
  The U.S. Senate confirmed Clarence Thomas as a Justice on the Supreme Court on OCTOBER 15, 1991. When questioned by Senator [...]
• The American Minute: October 9
  Lewis Cass was born OCTOBER 9, 1782. A Brigadier-General in the War of 1812, Lewis Cass was Governor of the Michigan [...]
• The American Minute: October 8
  A race car driver, he served in France during World War I as chauffeur for General Pershing. With Germany’s Red Baron [...]
• The American Minute: October 5
  He entered Yale College at age 13 and graduated with honors. He became a pastor, and his sermon, “Sinners in the [...]
• The American Minute: September 25
  “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Thus began the first [...]
• The American Minute: September 17
  “Done…the SEVENTEENTH DAY of SEPTEMBER, in the year of our LORD one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven.” This is the [...]
• The American Minute: September 11
  In 1683, over 138,000 Muslim Ottoman Turks surrounded Vienna, Austria. For two months they had starved the 11,000 Hapsburg-Austrian defenders. Sultan Mehmed [...]
• The American Minute: September 10
  The Son of one of the Boston Tea Party “Indians,” he graduated from Harvard and eventually became Massachusetts Speaker [...]
• The American Minute: September 5
  Just five days after Princess Diana was killed, Mother Teresa died SEPTEMBER 5, 1997. The daughter of an Albanian grocer, she [...]
• The American Minute: September 4
  HE FALL OF ROME CHINA – By 220AD, the Later Eastern Han Dynasty had extended the Great Wall of China [...]
• The American Minute: September 3
  “In the name of the most holy and undivided Trinity.” Thus began the Treaty of Paris which ended the Revolutionary War. The [...]
• The American Minute: August 31
  Imprisoned twelve years for preaching without a license from the King, he wrote Pilgrim’s Progress, an allegory of a [...]
• The American Minute: August 30
  One of America’s greatest generals for capturing Fort Ticonderoga with Ethan Allen and leading the charge at Saratoga, he [...]
• The American Minute: August 29
  “Beloved Cherokees,” wrote President Washington on AUGUST 29, 1796, “The wise men of the United States meet once a [...]
• The American Minute: August 28
  At the Civil Rights March in Washington, D.C., AUGUST 28, 1963, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., stated: “I have a dream…where [...]
• The American Minute: August 27
  AUGUST 27, 1776, British General Howe trapped 8,000 American troops on Brooklyn Heights. Desperate, Washington ferried his army all night across [...]
• The American Minute: August 24
  Unaware of printing technology in China and Korea, Johannes Gutenberg invented the Western world’s first moveable type printing press. His [...]
• The American Minute: August 23
  “We have met the enemy and they are ours,” wrote Navy Captain Oliver Hazard Perry, who died AUGUST 23, 1819. Captain [...]
• The American Minute: August 22
  Born AUGUST 22, 1934, he served in Vietnam, commanded the U.S. forces in Grenada and Desert Storm, was awarded [...]
• The American Minute: August 21
  He was one of six founding fathers to sign both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. President Washington appointed him [...]
• The American Minute: August 20
  300,000 miles on horseback, from the Atlantic to the Appalachians, from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico, for 45 [...]
• The American Minute: August 17
  AUGUST 17, 1955, President Eisenhower authorized the code of conduct for U.S. soldiers, which stated: “I serve in the forces which [...]
• The American Minute: August 16
  Charles Finney died AUGUST 16, 1875. An attorney, Finney saw so many Scripture references in Blackstone’s Law Commentaries that he bought [...]
• The American Minute: June 15
  The Legend of Robin Hood speaks of Richard the Lionheart, so named for his courage in leading the Third Crusade [...]
• The American Minute: June 14
  Thirteen Stars and Thirteen Stripes. It was on JUNE 14, 1777, that the Second Continental Congress selected the Flag of [...]
• The American Minute: June 13
  19-year-old Marquis de Lafayette purchased a ship and sailed to America, arriving JUNE 13, 1777. Trained in the French Military, [...]
• The American Minute: June 12
  He received the Distinguished Flying Cross for his WWII service in the Pacific. He studied at Yale, was a Congressman, [...]
• The American Minute: June 8
  On JUNE 8, 1845, “Old Hickory” died. Wounded by a sword during the Revolutionary War, he later fought the Seminole [...]
• The American Minute: June 7
  The island of Jamaica was captured from the Spanish in 1655 by British Admiral William Penn, father of Pennsylvania’s founder, [...]
• The American Minute: June 6
  D-Day was JUNE 6, 1944. 156,000 troops landed on the Normandy coast of France in the largest invasion force in [...]
• The American Minute: June 5
  JUNE 5, 1967, the Six-Day War began. Egypt sent 80,000 troops and 900 tanks to attack Israel. Jordan and Syria, [...]
• The American Minute: June 1
  “Don’t Give Up The Ship!” commanded 31-year-old Captain James Lawrence, as he lay wounded on the deck of the U.S.S. [...]
• The American Minute: May 31
  In his Memorial Day Address, MAY 31, 1923, President Calvin Coolidge said: “Settlers came here from mixed motives…Generally defined, they [...]
• The American Minute: May 30
  Southern women scattered spring flowers on the graves of both the Northern and Southern soldiers who died during the Civil [...]
• The American Minute: May 29
  Awarded the Navy’s medal of heroism during World War II and the Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles in Courage, [...]
• The American Minute: May 28
  He left Yale for four years to fight in the Revolutionary War. After graduation, he became a lawyer and taught [...]
• The American Minute: May 24
  William Lloyd Garrison published the Boston anti-slavery paper “Liberator” and founded the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833. Suffering hundreds of [...]
• The American Minute: May 23
  Fur trapper, Indian agent, and soldier; this was Kit Carson, who died MAY 23, 1868. Kit Carson’s exploits west of [...]
• The American Minute: May 22
  The SS SAVANNAH left MAY 22, 1819, from Savannah, Georgia, and 25 days later arrived in Liverpool, England, completing the [...]
• The American Minute: May 21
  The American Red Cross was organized MAY 21, 1881, by Clara Barton, a schoolteacher who had moved to Washington at [...]
• The American Minute: May 18
  On MAY 18, 1920, in a small town in Poland, Karol Wojtyla was born. A chemical worker during World War [...]
• The American Minute: May 17
  The first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court was the president of the American Bible Society. Who was he? [...]
• The American Minute: May 16
  Seward’s Folly is what Alaska was called when it was first purchased from Russia, as it was thought to be [...]
• The American Minute: May 15
  Army Day, Navy Day and Air Force Day were combined in 1949 to be Armed Forces Day, celebrated the 3rd [...]
• The American Minute: May 14
  Midnight, MAY 14, 1948, the State of Israel came into being and was immediately recognized by the United States and [...]
• The American Minute: May 11
  The son of a rabbi, he was born MAY 11, 1888. At 4-years-old, he immigrated with his family from Russia [...]
• The American Minute: May 10
  A surprise attack before dawn on MAY 10, 1775, gave America one of its first victories of the Revolutionary War. [...]
• The American Minute: May 9
  Mothers’ Day was held in Boston in 1872 at the suggestion of Julia Ward Howe, writer of “The Battle Hymn [...]
• The American Minute: May 8
  The 33rd U.S. President was born MAY 8, 1884. He was captain of a field artillery battery in France during [...]
• The American Minute: May 7
  World War II ended in Europe on MAY 7, 1945, when German emissaries met at General Dwight Eisenhower’s Headquarters, a [...]
• The American Minute: May 4
  Selling a million copies a year for over 100 years, McGuffey’s Readers were the mainstay of public education in America. [...]
• The American Minute: May 3
  He was a physician in the Revolutionary War, a member of the Continental Congress and a signer of the Constitution. [...]
• The American Minute: May 2
  The director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, died MAY 2, 1972. For 48 years, under eight Presidents, J. Edgar [...]
• The American Minute: May 1
  MAY 1, 305 AD, the most powerful man in the world, Emperor Diocletian, stepped down from ruling Rome, only two [...]
• The American Minute: April 30
  The size of the U.S. doubled APRIL 30, 1803, with the Louisiana Purchase. Nearly a million square miles, at less [...]
• The American Minute: April 27
  Forced to resign from the Army for excessive drinking, he failed as a farmer and a businessman. Not until he [...]
• The American Minute: April 26
  English settlers landed in North America on APRIL 26, 1607, at the site of Cape Henry, named for Prince Henry [...]
• The American Minute: April 25
  Beginning APRIL 25, 1789, every session of the U.S. Senate has opened with prayer. This was a continuation of the [...]
• The American Minute: April 24
  Originally for legislators to do research, it began APRIL 24, 1800, with a $5,000 grant from Congress. The British set [...]
• The American Minute: April 23
  William Shakespeare was born APRIL 23, 1564. His 37 plays impacted world literature. He married Ann Hathaway, had three children, [...]
• The American Minute: April 20
  His interpreter, Moses Tinda Tautamy, helped him minister to Indians along the Susquehanna and Delaware Rivers, camping at night. Born [...]
• The American Minute: April 19
  Paul Revere was captured along the way, but William Dawes and Samuel Prescott continued the midnight ride from Boston’s Old [...]
• The American Minute: April 18
  William Brewster died APRIL 18, 1644. His position as a leader of the Pilgrim church in England led to his [...]
• The American Minute: April 17
  On APRIL 17, 1790, the son of a poor candle-maker died. The 15th of 17 children, he apprenticed as a [...]
• The American Minute: April 16
  On APRIL 16, 1859, French historian Alexis de Tocqueville died. After nine months of traveling the United States, he wrote [...]
• The American Minute: April 13
  He drafted the Declaration of Independence, was Governor of Virginia and founded the University of Virginia. As the 3rd U.S. [...]
• The American Minute: April 12
  Less than two months after Lincoln was inaugurated President, the Civil War began APRIL 12, 1861, with Confederate troops in [...]
• The American Minute: April 11
  “Houston, we’ve had a problem” were the words sent from Apollo 13, which was launched for the moon APRIL 11, [...]
• The American Minute: April 10
  Millions of people in 118 countries are helped by The Salvation Army, founded by William Booth, who was born APRIL [...]
• The American Minute: April 9
  The Civil War began on Wilmer McLean’s farm in Manassas Junction, Virginia, with the First Battle of Bull Run. A [...]
• The American Minute: April 6
  APRIL 6, 1917, the United States entered World War I by declaring war on Kaiser Wilhelm II’s Germany. Within the [...]
• The American Minute: April 5
  Born in a slave hut APRIL 5, 1856, was Booker T. Washington. In dire poverty after the Civil War, he [...]
• The American Minute: April 4
  Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated APRIL 4, 1968. Pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, he rose to national [...]
• The American Minute: April 3
  A Man Without A Country was a classic book written by Edward Everett Hale, born APRIL 3, 1822. It is [...]
• The American Minute: April 2
  The world of communication was revolutionized by a man who died APRIL 2, 1872. His name was Samuel F.B. Morse, [...]
• The American Minute: March 30
  During the Civil War, after issuing his Emancipation Proclamation, President Abraham Lincoln set a National Day of Humiliation, Fasting and [...]
• The American Minute: March 29
  Tenth President John Tyler was born MARCH 29, 1790. He was the first Vice-President ever to assume the Presidency when [...]
• The American Minute: March 28
  On MARCH 28, 1885, the Salvation Army was organized in the United States. It was begun in England by “General” [...]
• The American Minute: March 27
  President John Adams’ son, John Quincy Adams, was U.S. Minister to Russia. In September 1811, John Quincy Adams wrote from [...]
• The American Minute: March 26
  Richard Allen was born to slave parents in Philadelphia and sold with his family to a plantation in Dover, Delaware. [...]
• The American Minute: March 23
  The Declaration of Independence accused the King of “giving his Assent to their acts of ‘pretended Legislation.’” Britain imposed the [...]
• The American Minute: March 22
  On MARCH 22, 1758, Princeton University President Jonathan Edwards died from a smallpox inoculation. Valedictorian of his class at Yale, [...]
• The American Minute: March 20
  Sir Isaac Newton died MARCH 20, 1727. With his mother widowed twice, he had been raised by his grandmother before [...]
• The American Minute: March 16
  Called the “Chief Architect of the Constitution,” he wrote many of the Federalist Papers which helped convince States to ratify [...]
• The American Minute: March 15
  On MARCH 15, 1984, the Senate voted down voluntary prayer in public schools. President Reagan said: “I am deeply disappointed that, [...]
• The American Minute: March 14
  Born in Germany MARCH 14, 1879, he began teaching himself calculus at age 14. With a doctorate from the University [...]
• The American Minute: March 13
  Susan B. Anthony, whose face is on a U.S. dollar coin and whose statue is in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, [...]
• The American Minute: March 12
  Juliette Low began the Girls Scouts, MARCH 12, 1912, in Savannah, Georgia. Chronic ear infections as a child made one [...]
• The American Minute: March 9
  The Confederate iron-plated ship Merrimac destroyed two Union boats during the Civil War. The Union responded with the ironclad Monitor. [...]
• The American Minute: March 6
  25-year-old Colonel Henry Knox unbelievably moved 59 cannons 300 miles from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston. On the night of March [...]
• The American Minute: March 5
  Colonists were forced to house British soldiers. On MARCH 5, 1770, a crowd protested and in the confusion British soldiers [...]
• The American Minute: March 2
  The Alamo mission at San Antonio was in its 7th day of being assaulted by thousands of Santa Anna’s troops. [...]
• The American Minute: March 1
  What was the government in the United States before the U.S. Constitution was written? It was the Articles of Confederation, [...]
• The American Minute: February 29
  FEBRUARY 29 is Leap Day. In 45 B.C., Julius Caesar replaced the calendars used throughout the Roman Empire based on [...]
• The American Minute: February 28
  His grandson, Robert, was the U.S. Navy Commodore who helped freed slaves found Liberia, West Africa, and in 1846 captured [...]
• The American Minute: February 27
  “Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere…Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry [...]
• The American Minute: February 24
  “Remember the Alamo!” In 1821, Mexico won independence from Spain and established a Mexican Republic with a Federal Constitution. In [...]
• The American Minute: February 23
  The Panama Canal Zone was acquired by the U.S. for ten million dollars on FEBRUARY 23, 1904. Planned by President [...]
• The American Minute: February 22
  George Washington was born FEBRUARY 22, 1732. He was unanimously chosen as the Army’s Commander-in-Chief, unanimously chosen as President of [...]
• ACORN Stacks the Vote
  House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) continues to ask questions about ACORN’s illegal [...]
• The American Minute: February 21
  On FEBRUARY 21, 1848, John Quincy Adams suffered a stroke at his desk in the House chamber, shortly after making [...]
• The American Minute: February 20
  A Revolutionary War Colonel, he built the fortifications at Breed’s Hill and commanded the militia at the Battle of Bunker [...]
• The American Minute: February 17
  The Battle of Cowpens, JANUARY 17, 1781, depicted in Mel Gibson’s movie “The Patriot,” was where American General Daniel Morgan [...]
• The American Minute: February 18
  Pilgrim’s Progress was published FEBRUARY 18, 1678. An allegory of a pilgrim’s journey to the Celestial City, it was written [...]
• The American Minute: February 16
  “The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco,” stated President Obama in Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009. In 1625, [...]
• The American Minute: February 15
  Slavery in Cuba began earlier and lasted longer than anywhere else in the Americas, from 1521 to the late 1870′s. [...]
• The American Minute: February 14
  In the 3rd century, Emperor Claudius II was faced with defending the Roman Empire from the invading Goths. He believed [...]
• The American Minute: Feburary 13
  “Man has forgotten God, that is why this has happened” was Solzhenitsyn’s response when questioned about the decline of modern [...]
• The American Minute: February 10
  Cortez ordered his ships sunk. There was no turning back. With 500 men Cortez set out FEBRUARY 10, 1519, toward [...]
• The American Minute: February 9
  “Tippecanoe and Tyler too” was the campaign slogan of 9th President William Henry Harrison, born FEBRUARY 9, 1773. He was [...]
• The American Minute: February 8
  The Boys Scouts of America was incorporated FEBRUARY 8, 1910. Sir Robert Baden-Powell began the movement in England two years [...]
• The American Minute: February 6
  A graduate of Eureka College, IL, 1932, he announced for radio stations in Iowa. He married Jane Wyman and had [...]
• The American Minute: February 3
  On the frigid night of FEBRUARY 3, 1943, the Allied ship Dorchester plowed through the waters near Greenland. At 1:00am, [...]
• The American Minute: February 2
  FEBRUARY 2, 1848, the U.S. Congress ratified the peace treaty which ended the Mexican War. In exchange for 15 million [...]
• The American Minute: February 1
  Five dollars was all she was paid by the Atlantic Monthly Magazine for her poem, The Battle Hymn of the [...]
• The American Minute: January 31
  Anglican minister Jacob Duche’ was born JANUARY 31, 1738. He was pastor of Christ Church in Philadelphia. As recorded in the [...]
• The American Minute: January 30
  Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born JANUARY 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, NY. The 32nd President, he was in office longer [...]
• The American Minute: January 19
  William Orville Douglas died JANUARY 19, 1980. He was a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court for 36 years, after [...]
• The American Minute: January 18
  One of the five greatest Senators in U.S. history, the State of New Hampshire placed his statue in the U.S. [...]
• The American Minute: January 17
  The Battle of Cowpens, JANUARY 17, 1781, depicted in Mel Gibson’s movie “The Patriot,” was where American General Daniel [...]
• The American Minute: January 12
  “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” This famous quote was from [...]
• The American Minute: January 10
  His daughter was Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote the abolitionist novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” His son was Henry Ward Beecher, [...]
• The American Minute: January 9
  He lost his first presidential race to John F. Kennedy by the smallest margin to that date. A Lieutenant Commander [...]
• The American Minute: January 6
  In 567 AD, the Council of Tours ended a dispute. Western Europe celebrated Christmas, December 25, and Eastern Europe [...]
• The American Minute: January 5
  Kidnapped after the Civil War, he was ransomed with a horse. Raised by German immigrants, Moses and Susan Carver, [...]
• The American Minute: January 3
  Frederick the Great of Prussia called these ten days “the most brilliant in the world’s history.” After winning the Battle [...]
• The American Minute: January 2
  A 3-cent stamp honoring Betsy Ross was issued in Philadelphia, JANUARY 2, 1952, commemorating the 200th anniversary of her birth. [...]
• The American Minute: December 24
  On Christmas eve, DECEMBER 24, 1492, Columbus’ ship, the Santa Maria, ran aground on the island of Haiti. Columbus left [...]
• The American Minute: December 23
  After the Continental Army was driven out of New Jersey, an article titled “The American Crisis” was published in the [...]
• The American Minute: December 22
  Battle of the Bulge- Nazi’s amassed three armies for an enormous attack against the Allies in the Ardennes Forest and [...]
• The American Minute: December 21
  “Amazing grace! How sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, [...]
• The American Minute: December 20
  Ronald Reagan stated in his Christmas Address, DECEMBER 20, 1983: “Sometimes, in the hustle and bustle of holiday preparations we forget [...]
• The American Minute: December 19
  Driven into Pennsylvania by the British, the Continental Army set up camp at Valley Forge, DECEMBER 19, 1777, just 25 [...]
• The American Minute: December 16
  The Boston Tea Party took place DECEMBER 16, 1773, just three years after the Boston Massacre, where the British fired [...]
• The American Minute: December 15
  Newly independent, the thirteen States were concerned their new government may become too powerful, as King George’s was. They insisted [...]
• The American Minute: December 14
  He caught a chill riding horseback several hours in the snow while inspecting his Mount Vernon farm. The next morning [...]
• The American Minute: December 12
  Pennsylvania – The Continental Congress met there, the Declaration of Independence was signed there, the Liberty Bell was rung there, [...]
• The American Minute: December 9
  The Play, “Fiddler on the Roof,” tells the story recounted by President Benjamin Harrison on DECEMBER 9, 1891: “This Government has [...]
• The American Minute: December 8
  On <strong>DECEMBER 8</strong>, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln announced his plan to accept back into the Union those who had been [...]
• The American Minute: December 7
  “DECEMBER 7, 1941- a date which will live in infamy- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked [...]
• The American Minute: December 6
  Greek Orthodox history tells of Nicholas being born to a wealthy, elderly couple in what is now Turkey in the [...]
• The American Minute: December 5
  A signer of the Constitution licensed to preach? This was Hugh Williamson, delegate from North Carolina, born DECEMBER 5, 1735. [...]
• The American Minute: December 2
  A thirty-three year old conquistador landed in Mexico with five hundred men. He was shocked to find the Aztecs taking [...]
• The American Minute: December 1
  The Confederates won the Second Battle of Bull Run, crossed the Potomac River into Maryland and captured Harper’s Ferry. But [...]
• The American Minute: November 30
  “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” was his first popular story, written while in San Francisco. He then sailed [...]
• The American Minute: November 29
  His death went unnoticed, as he died the same day John F. Kennedy was shot, but his works are some [...]
• The American Minute: November 28
  Following the hated Stamp Act of 1765, the British committed the Boston Massacre in 1770, firing into a crowd, killing [...]
• The American Minute: November 25
  Born a slave in New York in 1797, she spoke only Dutch until she was sold at age 11. Suffering [...]
• The American Minute: November 24
  Sentenced as a galley slave on a French ship, he looked up as they sailed passed St. Andrews, Scotland, and [...]
• The American Minute: November 23
  His only son, 11-year-old Bennie, was killed when their campaign train rolled off its tracks. This happened to 14th President [...]
• The American Minute: November 22
  Shots rang out as President John F. Kennedy was assassinated NOVEMBER 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. The youngest President ever [...]
• The American Minute: November 21
  French author Voltaire was born NOVEMBER 21, 1694. Yale president Timothy Dwight wrote of Voltaire in his Address “Duty of [...]
• The American Minute: November 18
  Julius Caesar Watts, Jr., better know as J.C. Watts, was born NOVEMBER 18, 1957. A college and pro football player, [...]
• The American Minute: November 17
  “Bloody Mary,” daughter of Henry VIII, sentenced 300 people to death during her 5 year reign. At her death, NOVEMBER [...]
• The American Minute: November 16
  “My country, ’tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of [...]
• The American Minute: November 15
  He lost two sons in the Revolution, was the only clergyman to sign the Declaration and served on 120 Congressional [...]
• The American Minute: November 14
  Born a slave, he taught himself to read, and attended school after working all day. At age 25, he founded [...]
• Update: Holder Defies Congress (Again)
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• The American Minute: November 11
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• The American Minute: November 10
  “Doctor Livingstone, I presume,” was the greeting NOVEMBER 10, 1871, by New York Herald newspaper reporter Henry Stanley as he [...]
• The American Minute: November 9
  On NOVEMBER 9, 1954, President Eisenhower addressed the National Conference on the Spiritual Foundation of American Democracy at the Sheraton-Carlton [...]
• The American Minute: November 7
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• The American Minute: November 4
  United States Senator Charles Carroll was unique. He was the only Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence and [...]
• The American Minute: November 3
  In a Radio Address, NOVEMBER 3, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge stated: “I therefore urge upon all the voters of our [...]
• The American Minute: November 2
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• The American Minute: November 1
  On NOVEMBER 1, 1800, John Adams became the first U.S. President to move into the White House. The following day [...]
• The American Minute: October 31
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• The American Minute: October 28
  The Statue of Liberty was dedicated OCTOBER 28, 1886. A gift from France, it was built by Gustave Eiffel, builder [...]
• The American Minute: October 27
  His wife and mother died on Valentine’s Day, 1884. Depressed, he left to ranch in the Dakotas. Returning to New [...]
• The American Minute: October 26
  On OCTOBER 26, 1774, the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts reorganized their defenses with one-third of their regiments being “Minutemen,” ready [...]
• The American Minute: October 25
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• The American Minute: October 24
  Created to prevent future wars, the United Nations, a name coined by Franklin Roosevelt, officially began OCTOBER 24, 1945. Since [...]
• The American Minute: October 21
  British Admiral Horatio Nelson lost his right eye capturing Corsica and his right arm attacking the Canary Islands. He captured [...]
• The American Minute: October 20
  He coordinated relief to millions when the Mississippi River levees broke during the 1927 flood and he organized feeding 300 [...]
• The American Minute: October 19
  British General Henry Clinton ordered General Cornwallis to move 8,000 troops to a defensive position where the York River enters [...]
• The American Minute: October 18
  The only Pilgrim to have his portrait painted, Edward Winslow was born OCTOBER 18, 1595. He joined the Separatists, a [...]
• The American Minute: October 17
  Her beautiful, long hair was scalped off her head by Indians after she was shot. This was the fate of [...]
• The American Minute: October 14
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• The American Minute: October 13
  Margaret Thatcher was born OCTOBER 13, 1925. She was the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. While traveling [...]
• The American Minute: October 12
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• The American Minute: October 11
  On OCTOBER 11, 1798, President John Adams wrote to the 1st Brigade of the 3rd Division of the Militia of [...]
• The American Minute: October 10
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• The American Minute: October 7
  Henry Melchior Muhlenberg died OCTOBER 7, 1787. One of the founders of the Lutheran Church in America, his son John [...]
• The American Minute: October 6
  Just 70 miles from Washington, DC, the Battle of Antietam took place on September 17, 1862. It was the single [...]
• The American Minute: October 4
  A Joint Resolution of the 97th U.S. Congress proclaimed “A Year of the Bible.” It was signed by Democrat Speaker [...]
• The American Minute: October 3
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• The American Minute: September 30
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• The American Minute: September 29
  Governor William Bradford called him “a special instrument sent of God.” Of 102 Pilgrims that landed November 1620, only half [...]
• The American Minute: September 28
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• The American Minute: September 27
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• The American Minute: September 26
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• The American Minute: September 22
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• The American Minute: September 21
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• The American Minute: September 20
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• The American Minute: September 19
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• The American Minute: September 16
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• The American Minute: September 15
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• The American Minute: September 14
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• The American Minute: September 13
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• The American Minute: September 9
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• The American Minute: September 8
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• The American Minute: September 7
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• The American Minute: September 6
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• The American Minute: September 2
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• The American Minute: September 1
  The British invaded Washington, D.C. The Capitol was burned. President James and Dolly Madison fled the White House. On SEPTEMBER [...]
• The American Minute: August 31
  Imprisoned twelve years for preaching without a license from the King, he wrote Pilgrim’s Progress, an allegory of a [...]
• The American Minute: August 30
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• The American Minute: August 29
  “Beloved Cherokees,” wrote President Washington on AUGUST 29, 1796, “The wise men of the United States meet once a year, [...]
• The American Minute: August 26
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• The American Minute: August 25
  He discovered planet Uranus in 1781 and desired to name it after King George III, though others gave it his [...]
• The American Minute: August 24
  Unaware of printing technology in China and Korea, Johannes Gutenberg invented the Western world’s first moveable type printing press. [...]
• The American Minute: August 23
  “We have met the enemy and they are ours,” wrote Navy Captain Oliver Hazard Perry, who died AUGUST 23, 1819. [...]
• The American Minute: August 22
  Born AUGUST 22, 1934, he served in Vietnam, commanded the U.S. forces in Grenada and Desert Storm, was awarded [...]
• The American Minute: August 19
  A graduate of Georgetown University, he was a Fulbright Scholar before becoming Governor of Arkansas and then America’s [...]
• The American Minute: August 18
  His legal decisions were so respected they were referenced in U.S. Supreme Court Cases. For 40 years he served on [...]
• The American Minute: August 17
  AUGUST 17, 1955, President Eisenhower authorized the code of conduct for U.S. soldiers, which stated: “I serve in the forces [...]
• The American Minute: August 16
  Charles Finney died AUGUST 16, 1875. An attorney, Finney saw so many Scripture references in Blackstone’s Law Commentaries [...]
• The American Minute: August 15
  He conquered from Austria to Holland to Palestine. He invaded Egypt, uncovered Pyramid treasures and the Rosetta Stone, but found [...]
• The American Minute: August 12
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• The American Minute: August 11
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• The American Minute: August 10
  Herbert Hoover was born AUGUST 10, 1874. The son of a Quaker blacksmith, he studied at Stanford and became a [...]
• The American Minute: August 9
  AUTUMN 1831, Four Indians, 3 Nez Perce and 1 Flathead, arrived in St. Louis asking about a “book to heaven.” [...]
• The American Minute: August 8
  AUGUST 8, 1974, televised from the Oval Office, 37th President Richard Nixon said: “Good evening. This is the [...]
• The American Minute: August 5
  The first book printed in America was the Bay Psalm Book by John Eliot, who was baptized in England [...]
• The American Minute: August 4
  “To sink the foe or save the maimed, Our mission and our pride, We’ll carry on ’til Kingdom Come, [...]
• The American Minute: August 3
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• The American Minute: August 2
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• The American Minute: August 1
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• The American Minute: July 29
  Alexis de Tocqueville was born JULY 29, 1805. A French social scientist who traveled the United States in 1831, de [...]
• The American Minute: July 28
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• The American Minute: July 27
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• The American Minute: July 26
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• The American Minute: July 25
  Ulysses S. Grant was commissioned JULY 25, 1866, as General of the Army, the first to hold that rank. His [...]
• The American Minute: July 22
  “A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on,” wrote poet Carl Sandburg, who died JULY 22, [...]
• The American Minute: July 21
  The Scopes Monkey Trial ended JULY 21, 1925. John Scopes, a Tennessee High school biology teacher was found guilty [...]
• The American Minute: July 20
  “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind,” stated Neil Armstrong, JULY 20, 1969, as he became [...]
• The American Minute: July 19
  “V” for Victory! It was on JULY 19, 1941, that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill held up two fingers as [...]
• The American Minute: July 18
  Prior to the Revolution, British troops were marching toward Fort Duquesne when they were ambushed by the French and [...]
• The American Minute: July 15
  The Continental Congress was evacuating Philadelphia as the British had just won the Battle of Brandywine, forcing Washington’s troops to [...]
• The American Minute: July 14
  Leslie Lynch King, Jr., born JULY 14, 1913, became the 38th President of the United States. Renamed by his [...]
• The American Minute: July 13
  After George Washington retired from being President, he became Commander-in-Chief of the Army for a second time. It was 1798, [...]