Today's American Minute

U.S. Armed Forces Day - Saluting Our Defenders! - American Minute with Bill Federer

May 15, 2025 • U.S. Armed Forces Day

President George Washington stated in his First Annual Message, January 8, 1790: "To be prepared for War is the most effectual means of preserving peace."

Harry S Truman and his role in creating new State of Israel - American Minute with Bill Federer

May 15, 2025 • & in warning of anarchy leading to dictatorship • Harry S Truman's role in World War I • in creating new State of Israel

Truman's chief negotiator of the 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and Egypt, Lebanon, Jordon, and Syria was African American Ralph Bunche -- for which he became the first black to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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.