Today's American Minute

Virginia: The First Colony, and its courageous leaders who called for Freedom - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 25, 2023 • and its courageous leaders who called for Freedom • Virginia: The First Colony

Patrick Henry declared: "Nations ... negligently suffering their liberty to be wrested from them, have groaned under intolerable despotism. Most of the human race are now in this deplorable condition ...

My great objection to this Government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants ..."

Trail of Tears, Oklahoma, Land Rush, Oil Boom & Cherokee Cowboy Will Rogers - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 25, 2023 • & Cherokee Cowboy Will Rogers - American Minute with Bill Federer • Land Rush • Oil • Oklahoma • Trail of Tears

The Houghton Line Magazine (E.F. Houghton Co., March, 1950): “If you think you’re going to be happy and prosperous by sitting back and letting the government take care of you — look at the American Indians!”

Franklin published Famous Preachers' Sermons - Little known facts: Printer, Postmaster, Ambassador, Author, Inventor, Scientist, Abolitionist & Founding Father - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 24, 2023 • Abolitionist & Founding Father • Ambassador • Author • Franklin published Famous Preachers' Sermons - Little known facts: Printer • Inventor • Postmaster • Scientist

Franklin gave a warning at the Constitutional Convention, June 28, 1787: "I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?"

World War I: Middle East Oil, Lusitania, Spanish Flu, & the story of Sergeant York - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 21, 2023 • & the story of Sergeant York • Lusitania • Spanish Flu • World War I: Middle East Oil

After the sinking of the Lusitania on May 1, 1915, the United States' public opinion moved in the direction of supporting intervention in Europe. In 1917, American troops began arriving in Europe at the rate of 10,000 a day to fight "the Hun."

Thomas Cooley, President of American Bar Association, 1893: on Religion, 2nd Amendment, Local Control of Government, vs Holmes, Jr - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 20, 2023 • 1893: on Religion • 2nd Amendment • Jr. • Local Control of Government • President of American Bar Association • Thomas Cooley • vs. Holmes

Thomas Cooley wrote in his General Principles of Constitutional Law, 1890: "The Christian religion was always recognized in the administration of the common law of the land, the fundamental principles of that religion must continue to be recognized in the same cases and to the same extent as formerly."