Today's American Minute

Thanksgiving Proclamations by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, Roosevelt, & others - American Minute with Bill Federer

November 25, 2025 • & others • Jefferson • Lincoln • Madison • Roosevelt • Thanksgiving Proclamations by Washington

Traitor Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point was thwarted. The Continental Congress proclaimed a Day of Thanksgiving, October 18, 1780: "In the late remarkable interposition of His watchful providence, in the rescuing the person of our Commander-in-Chief and the army from imminent dangers, at the moment when treason was ripened for execution ... it is therefore recommended ... a Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer ... to confess our unworthiness ... and to offer fervent supplications to the God of all grace ... to cause the knowledge of Christianity to spread over all the earth."

Pilgrim Thanksgiving, Struggles, Dangers and Attacks, Then and Now - American Minute with Bill Federer

November 21, 2025 • Pilgrim Thanksgiving "God be Praised we had a Good Increase...Our Harvest being gotten in"-Pilgrim Edward Winslow

Pilgrim Edward Winslow recorded in Mourt's Relation that in the Fall of 1621: "God be praised we had a good increase ... Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors. They four in one day killed as much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week."

Pilgrims tried Communism and rejected it -- replacing it with Property owned by Individuals who could then be Charitable! - American Minute with Bill Federer

November 19, 2025

Bradford described: "They began to consider how to raise more corn, and obtain a better crop ... that they might not continue to endure the misery of want ... After much debate, the Governor, with the advice of the chief among them, allowed each man to plant corn for his own household ... So every family was assigned a parcel of land ... This was very successful."

Without God "covenant" twists into "social contract" then "socialism" - American Minute with Bill Federer

November 13, 2025 • " then Socialism • William Brewster & How Pilgrim "Covenant" twisted into "Social Contract

In recapping:

Pilgrims had a covenant where they cared for each other because each person was personally accountable to God;

Covenant turned into social contract during the Age of Enlightenment, with God being distant and uninvolved -- an impersonal force;

Social contract with a distant God turned into social contract with NO God during the French Revolution;

In the 19th century, social contract with NO God turned into socialism, where the state is god.

Veterans Day "In test and trial, we...turn to God for courage"-Eisenhower - American Minute with Bill Federer

November 09, 2025 • Veterans Day "In time of test and trial • we instinctively turn to God for new courage and peace of mind"-Eisenhower - American Minute with Bill Federer

General Douglas MacArthur told West Point cadets, May 1962: "The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training - sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death, he discloses those Divine attributes which his Maker gave when He created man in His own image ..."