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American Minute with Bill Federer Edmund Burke is considered the most influential orator in the British House of Commons in the 18th century. Born January 12,...

American Minute with Bill Federer The Renaissance of the 15th century led the Reformation of the 16th century, followed by the Scientific Revolution -- a period of increased understanding in...

American Minute with Bill Federer Though George Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention, George Mason refused to sign the U.S. Constitution. Why? Because it did not put enough limits on the Federal...

American Minute with Bill Federer George Orwell wrote in his dystopian novel 1984: "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has...

50 States acknowledge God "from sea to shining sea" American Minute with Bill Federer "O Beautiful, For Spacious Skies, For Amber Waves of Grain ..." ​ Almost chosen...

BY ALLEN WEST The old folks down south had a saying when I was growing up that went something like this: “That fella is just...

American Minute with Bill Federer He intentionally fired into the air, but his political rival, the sitting Vice-President Aaron Burr, took deadly aim and fatally...

THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP In consequence of your friendly letter of May 23. I wrote you on the 8th. of June that I should immediately order...

Why his memory has been held in honor, not just as a Confederate General, but as an American AMERICAN MINUTE WITH BILL FEDERER Wilmer McLean's farm...

THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP …  you take a great interest in whatever relates to this first & most precious of all the arts , I have...

THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP he has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it’s most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons...

American Minute with Bill Federer 38-year-old King George III ruled the largest empire that planet earth had ever seen. ​ The Declaration of Independence, signed JULY 4,...

THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP A malignant fever … in the filth of Water street which gives great alarm. About 70. people had died of it two...

American Minute with Bill Federer Presidential Elections were held in November, as that was AFTER harvests were taken in and BEFORE winter storms. Beginning with Washington's...

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES BY GEORGE BANCROFT Volume 1, Part 1 Chapter 13 — The Providence Plantations WHILE the state was thus connecting by the closest...

American Minute with Bill Federer "5,000 years of recorded history have proven that mankind has always believed in God in spite of many abortive attempts...

AMERICAN MINUTE WITH BILL FEDERER "THE TEN COMMANDMENTS are not the laws. They are THE Law" ​-stated Cecil B. DeMille , November 8, 1956, at...

And American support for the Greek War for Independence from Ottoman Empire. American Minute with Bill Federer Considered one of the five greatest Senators in U.S....

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES BY GEORGE BANCROFT Volume 1, Part 1 Chapter 13 — New England's Plantation WHILE the king was engaged in the overthrow of...

BY ANDRÉ FRENCH When most Americans entertain the relevance of the Plymouth Pilgrims, images of turkeys and Indians are conjured up. There they are, sitting...