Today's American Minute

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."

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.

Sinking of the Invincible Spanish Armada & its impact on English colonizing of America - American Minute with Bill Federer

June 28, 2023 • Sinking of the Invincible Spanish Armada & its impact on English colonizing of America

Why was the sinking of the Invincible Spanish Armada significant to America? Had Spain succeeded in their attempts to conquer England, there may have been: no Anglican England; no Puritans wanting to "purify" it; no Pilgrim separatists fleeing it; no New England colonies being settled, and, quite possibly, no United States of America.

Colter's Run, Jedediah Smith & the Mountain Men -American Minute with Bill Federer

June 26, 2023 • Colter's Run • Jedediah Smith & the Mountain Men

Jedediah Smith "... In July 1828, fifteen men who were in company with me lost their lives by the Umpquah Indians ...

Many others have lost their lives in different parts ...

My Brother ... I have need of your prayers ... to bear me up before the Throne of Grace."