Today's American Minute

Christmas Truce of 1914, "Silent Night" story & selected Presidents' Christmas Greetings "So CHRISTMAS becomes the only holiday in all the year..."-FDR - American Minute with Bill Federer

December 18, 2023 • Christmas Truce of 1914 & selected Presidential Christmas Greetings - American Minute with Bill Federer

On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1914, an estimated 100,000 British, French and German troops near Ypres in Belgium along the Western Front, ceased fighting.

Crossing the Delaware - Battle of Trenton "Independence confirmed by God Almighty in the victory of General Washington" - American Minute with Bill Federer

December 17, 2023 • Crossing the Delaware - Battle of Trenton "Independence confirmed by God Almighty in the victory of General Washington"

Washington made the password for his operation "Victory or Death." This reflected Washington's General Orders, which he had issued months before on July 2, 1776: "The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own ... The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army."

"These are the times that try men's souls" - The American Crisis, Thomas Paine, December, 1776 - American Minute with Bill Federer

December 16, 2023 • "These are the times that try men's souls" - The American Crisis • 1776 • December • Thomas Paine

"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." -The American Crisis, December, 1776; "Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid." - Ronald Reagan

PragerU video: The Amazing Story of Christmas

December 13, 2023 • PragerU The Amazing Story of Christmas

Watch the PragerU video The Amazing History of Christmas

Hanukkah: Festival of Lights, Rededication of Second Temple c.164 BC - American Minute with Biill Federer

December 09, 2023 • Hanukkah: Festival of Lights • Rededication of Second Temple c.164 BC

Josephus concluded: "And so Judah and his fellow citizens celebrated the festival of the restoration of the sacrifices of the Temple for eight days ... They honored God, and delighted themselves with psalms of praise and the playing of harps. Indeed, they were so very glad at the revival of their customs and, after so long a time, having unexpectedly regained their right to worship, that they made it a law for their posterity that they should keep a festival celebrating the restoration of their Temple worship for eight days."