Today's American Minute

Abolitionist Poets: William Lloyd Garrison, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Ellery Channing, Theodore Parker, Henry David Thoreau & Ralph Waldo Emerson - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 12, 2023 • Abolitionist Poets: William Lloyd Garrison • Henry David Thoreau & Ralph Waldo Emerson -- "America ... a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race" • Louisa May Alcott • Nathaniel Hawthorne • Theodore Parker • William Ellery Channing

"America ... a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Old Ironsides" USS Constitution -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., & his dissenting son - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 12, 2023 • "Old Ironsides" USS Constitution - Oliver Wendell Holmes • & his dissenting son • Sr.

The USS Constitution was about to be decommissioned and broken into scrap when it was saved by a poem titled "Old Ironsides," written by poet, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.:

CHOLERA: Plague of 19th Century, First Global Epidemic; Day of Fasting proclaimed by President Taylor - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 11, 2023 • CHOLERA: Plague of 19th Century • First Global Epidemic; Day of Fasting proclaimed by President Taylor

By 1849, cholera killed 5,000 in New York, with a mass grave on Randall's Island in the East River. 8,000 died of cholera in Cincinnati and 3,000 killed in New Orleans. Spreading up the Mississippi, 5,000 were killed by cholera in St. Louis, which was about 6% of the city's population, among them being Pierre Chouteau, Sr., one of the St. Louis' prominent early settlers.

Battle of Brooklyn Heights & the Providential fog that allowed Washington's Army to Escape! - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 10, 2023

Major Ben Tallmadge: "At this time a very dense fog began to rise off the river, and it seemed to settle in a peculiar manner over both encampments. I recollect this peculiar providential occurrence perfectly well, and so very dense was the atmosphere that I could scarcely discern a man at six yards distance ..."

Ringing of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia -- a Symbol of Freedom - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 09, 2023 • Ringing of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia -- a Symbol of Freedom

Nelson Mandela was awarded the Liberty Medal in Philadelphia, July 4, 1993. He spoke: "The Liberty Bell is a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world." (The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 4, 1993)