Today's American Minute

Slavery versus Anti-Slavery - Not a Black vs White issue but Republican vs Democrat issue - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 07, 2023 • Anti-Slavery Party Founded - Not Black vs White issue but Republican vs Democrat issue

The original Republican platform was adopted June 18, 1856, being the first political party in history to have the abolition of slavery in its official party platform: "This Convention of Delegates ... are opposed to ... the extension of Slavery into Free Territory ... We deny the authority of Congress ... to give legal existence to slavery ... It is both the right and the imperative duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism—Polygamy, and Slavery."

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: "Government OF the PEOPLE, BY the PEOPLE, FOR the PEOPLE" ... Will it "perish from the earth"? - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 02, 2023 • BY the PEOPLE • FOR the PEOPLE" ... Will it "perish from the earth"? • Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: "Government OF the PEOPLE

" ... that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government OF the PEOPLE, BY the PEOPLE, FOR the PEOPLE, shall not perish from the earth."

Battle of San Juan Hill, Teddy Roosevelt & the Rough Riders "Resolved ... the people of the island of Cuba ... ought to be free!" - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 01, 2023 • Battle of San Juan Hill • Teddy Roosevelt & the Rough Riders "Resolved ... the people of the island of Cuba ... ought to be free!"

President McKinley approved a Resolution of Congress, April 20, 1898:

"Whereas the abhorrent conditions which have existed for more than three years in the island of Cuba, so near our own borders,

have shocked the moral sense of the people of the United States, have been a disgrace to Christian civilization,

Victory at Battle of Saratoga -One of History's Most Important Battles, & Contributions of Spanish General Galvez - American Minute with Bill Federer

June 30, 2023 • & Contributions of Spanish General Galvez • Victory at Battle of Saratoga - One of History's Most Important Battles

Galvez not only kept the British from attacking Washington's army from the west, but allowed army supplies, weapons, uniforms, and medicine to flow up the Mississippi River to the Ohio River, then across Pennsylvania to the American troops.

How Lee's Lost Order No. 191 altered the Civil War - American Minute with Bill Federer

June 30, 2023 • How Lee's Lost Order No. 191 changed the Civil War

The same day, September 13, 1862, Union Private Barton W. Mitchell was drinking coffee and inadvertently noticed three cigars on the ground wrapped with a piece of paper. The paper was a copy of Lee's Special Orders No. 191 addressed to Confederate General D.H. Hill revealing his plan to divide the Confederate Army.