Today's American Minute

How the Renaissance and Reformation led to the Revolution: John Calvin, John Knox, & John Witherspoon - American Minute with Bill Federer

August 24, 2023 • & John Witherspoon • How the Renaissance and Reformation led to the Revolution: John Calvin • John Knox

Presbyterian Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Rev. John Witherspoon, served as the President of Princeton College, where he taught 9 of the 55 writers of the U.S. Constitution, including James Madison.

How Democracies & Republics Rise & Fall: A Crash Course on Plato's Republic - American Minute with Bill Federer

August 24, 2023 • How Democracies & Republics Rise & Fall: A Crash Course on Plato's Republic

"The constitutions of states are five." The FIVE STAGES are: "We count as one Royal and Aristocratical..." followed by Timocratical, Oligarchical, Democratical, Tyrannical.

President Franklin Pierce, Antebellum Politics, and the Romanticism era Poet Nathaniel Hawthorne - American Minute with Bill Federer

August 22, 2023 • and the Romanticism era Poet Nathaniel Hawthorne • Antebellum Politics • President Franklin Pierce

On March 4, 1853, as the 14th U.S. President, Franklin Pierce stated in his Inaugural Address: "It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling Providence."

Explorers Circumnavigate Globe--From Magellan & Drake to Space Shuttle - American Minute with Bill Federer

August 22, 2023 • Explorers Circumnavigate Globe--From Magellan & Drake to Space Shuttle

Magellan was hit by a bamboo spear, surrounded and then killed. Magellan's crew continued to sail the ship, Victoria, and finally made it back to Spain in September of 1522.

Faith of Famous Astronomers, and a church organist discovering a planet - Sir William Herschel - American Minute with Bill Federer

August 21, 2023 • and a church organist discovering a planet - Sir William Herschel • Faith of Famous Astronomers

Sir Isaac Newton constructed one of the first practical reflecting telescopes. He wrote in Principia, 1687: "This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being ... All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the 'Lord God.'"