Today's American Minute

Mother's Day: "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother!" Lincoln - American Minute with Bill Federer

May 07, 2025 • I owe to my angel mother!" - Lincoln - American Minute with Bill Federer • Mother's Day: "All that I am • or hope to be

Lincoln wrote: "I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."

National Day of Prayer Presidential Proclamations - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 29, 2025 • "Awful calamity ... may be but a punishment ... for our presumptuous sins" • National Day of Prayer: "We have forgotten God..." Lincoln

Lincoln stated "Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness."

Joint Stock Companies financed English Exploration & the Founding of the Colony of Virginia - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 24, 2025 • and Enland's First Permanent Colony in America - American Minute with Bill Federer • Joint Stock Companies funded Europe's Age of Exploration

After the Reformation, Protestant countries formed the first "joint–stock" companies. A joint–stock company was much like modern-day crowd–sourcing or crowd–funding. Any individual could invest in a ship sailing to the Far East in search of spices, and when the ship returned, investors received a profit.

Spice Trade, Amsterdam Stock Exchange, Indonesian Nutmeg Island exchanged for Manhattan, Volcanos, Dutch Religious Tolerance - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 24, 2025 • Companies • Dutch Religious Tolerance - American Minute with Bill Federer • Indonesian Nutmeg Island traded for Manhattan • Spice Trade • Stock Market • Volcanos

The Dutch gained control over Indonesia while the British gained control of India.

Dutch Golden Age: World Maritime-Economic Power of 16th & 17th centuries, and the Dutch Colony of New Amsterdam (New York) - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 24, 2025 • and the Dutch Colony of New Amsterdam (New York) • Dutch Golden Age: World Maritime-Economic Power of 16th & 17th centuries

In 1696, King William granted freedoms to Dutch Church in New York with the Charter: "William the third, By the grace of God, King of England ... Our said loving subjects ... to preserve to them and their successors that liberty of worshiping God according to the constitutions and directions of the Reformed Churches in Holland ..."