Today's American Minute

Justice Joseph Story appointed to Supreme Court by James Madison-“Tyrants accomplish their purposes...by disarming the people" - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 16, 2024 • Justice Joseph Story appointed to Supreme Court by James Madison-“Tyrants accomplish their purposes...by disarming the people"

Joseph Story was Harvard's first Dane Professor of Law. He stated in a speech at Harvard in 1829: "There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation."

Origin of Saint Valentine's Day - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 12, 2024 • Origin of Saint Valentine's Day

When Emperor Claudius demanded that Christians deny their consciences and worship pagan idols, Saint Valentine refused.

Sojourner Truth, Betsey Stockton, Harriet Tubman, Anna Murray-Douglass & Notable Black Women Pioneers - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 08, 2024 • Anna Murray-Douglass & Notable Black Women Pioneers - American Minute with Bill Federer • Betsey Stockton • Harriet Tubman • Sojourner Truth

After the Emancipation Proclamation, Sojourner Truth moved to Washington, D.C., met Lincoln and helped former slaves. She dictated her biography, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave, 1850, stating: "When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name."

Salvation Army: William & Catherine Booth-"To keep quiet seemed like being a traitor to humanity"; & History of Goodwill Industries - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 03, 2024 • Salvation Army: William & Catherine Booth-"To keep quiet seemed like being a traitor to humanity"; & History of Goodwill Industries

Fighting sex-trafficking, William Booth wrote: "While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight; -while little children go hungry, I'll fight; -while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight -while there is a drunkard left, -while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, -where there remains one dark soul without the light of God -- I'll fight! I'll fight to the very end!"

Daniel Boone: Frontiersman, Pioneer and Patriot - American Minute with Bill Federer

January 30, 2024 • Daniel Boone: Frontiersman • Pioneer & Patriot

Theodore Roosevelt continued: "Boone's creed in matters of morality and religion was as simple and straightforward as his own character ... Late in life he wrote to one of his kinsfolk (sister-in-law, Sarah Boone, October 17, 1816): 'The religion I have is to love and fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all the good to my neighbor, and myself that I can, do as little harm as I can help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest.'"