Today's American Minute

General "Mad Anthony" Wayne, Bruce Wayne, & John Wayne "I'd like to know why they make excuses for cowards ..." - American Minute with Bill Federer

May 29, 2025 • & John Wayne "I'd like to know why they make excuses for cowards ..." • Bruce Wayne • General "Mad Anthony" Wayne

LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... General "Mad Anthony" Wayne raised a militia unit at the beginning of the Revolutionary War and participated in the invasion of Canada. He fought in the Battle of Trois-Rivières, and led forces at Fort Ticonderoga and Mount Independence. "Mad Anthony" Wayne fought at Brandywine in 1777, then harassed British General Howe as his troops marched towards Pennsylvania. In 1778, Wayne attacked at the Battle of Monmouth. He fought at Germantown, and quartered the winter at Valley Forge. In July of 1779, when General George Washington asked if he could capture Stony Point,...

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."

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.