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ANCIENT &; CLASSICAL HISTORY
Will "the Cradle of become its Grave"? History of Assyria & the Middle East
Armenia: Ancient Past to Aggrieved Present
The Ten Commandments, and the importance of an educated & moral population
Rise & Fall of Democracies & Republics: Crash Course on Plato's Republic
Jerusalem destroyed by Rome - then Rome devastated by Volcano, Fire, Plague
ROME & EARLY CHURCH
Roman Persecution of Early Christians
The Fall of Rome & Lessons to be Learned
Saint Patrick -- "found Ireland all heathen and left it all Christian"
Saint Nicholas & the Origins of Secret Gift-Giving!
Christmas Day: Date revealed by Levite calendar & celebrated through the ages!
Origin of Christmas Tree, Lights, Poinsettia, Famous Carols, & White House Christmas
MIDDLE AGES & CRUSADES
How Ottoman Islamic invasion from the East spread the Renaissance to the West
RENAISSANCE & AGE OF DISCOVERY
Marco Polo traveled East, Islamic jihad & the REAL reason Columbus sailed West
Miscalculation of Global Proportions led Columbus to attempt Voyage
Voyages that Changed History-Columbus' Four Expeditions to the New World
Explorers circumnavigating the Earth, from Magellan & Drake to the Space Shuttle
Cortés, Montezuma, & the Fate of the Aztec Empire
Bartolome de Las Casas -Apostle of the Indies, Protector of the Indians
HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE v. OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Sept. 11th - Political Islam's Long War on the West
Battle of Lepanto, Spanish Armada, & Pilgrim Governor William Bradford
Sinking of Invincible Spanish Armada & its impact on English colonizing of America
17TH CENTURY AUTHORS, POETS & COMPOSERS
Cervantes in Spain & Shakespeare in England: Writers who shaped Western Literature
REFORMATION
Dutch Golden Age: World Maritime-Economic Power of 16th & 17th centuries, and the Colony of New York
The Rarely Known History of Russia: Vikings to Mongols to Tsars to Socialism
Martin Luther, Reformation, Protestantism & the Influence on America's Founders
Renaissance & Reformation led to the Revolution: John Calvin, John Knox, & John Witherspoon
COLONIAL AMERICA
England's Virgin Queen Elizabeth I
How the Inventions of "Companies" helped to settle England's First Permanent Colony in America
Virginia's Founding and Significant Religious History
The Notorious Star Chamber and the Pilgrims fleeing to Holland & then New England
Pilgrims set sail: A mini-course in Self-Government
William Brewster & How Pilgrim Covenant twisted into Social Contract, then Socialism
Pilgrim Thanksgiving "God be praised we had a good increase ... Our harvest being gotten in"
Pilgrims experiment with Communism - and reject it
First NATIONAL Days of Thanksgiving
Faith of nation's forefathers celebrated at Plymouth
Freedom of Conscience, Rhode Island founder Roger Williams & Wall of Separation
Maryland's Christian Founding: What in the World Happened Since?
Dutch Global Empire - East Indies to New Amsterdam
Admiral Sir William Penn, the imprisonment of his Quaker son, William Penn, & Colony of Pennsylvania
William Penn to Ben Franklin: Religious Tolerance & Freedom of Conscience in Pennsylvania
John Eliot, "Praying Indians," King Philip's War, & a Wampanoag preacher, Rev. "Blind" Joe Amos
John Harvard and Harvard University
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
Pirates of the Caribbean, War of Jenkin's Ear, & The Ballad of the French Fleet
INDIAN HISTORY
Lenape Indian Treaty with William Penn, & Zinzendorf's Moravian Missionaries, from Germany to Alaska
Trail of Tears, Oklahoma, Land Rush, Oil, & Cherokee Cowboy Will Rogers
Human migration, hunter-gatherers to agriculture; & Indian policies over 500 years
Greed vs. the Gospel: An Examination of Indian Policies
PIRATES
Lawless Pirates, Earthquake Judgment & Revival
GREAT AWAKENING
George Whitefield and the Great Awakening Revival
Whoever Controls Education Controls the Future: Jonathan Edwards & Colonial America vs. Socialism
Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf & the Moravian Missionaries
Revivals, Universities, and the preaching of Jonathan Edwards/a>
Deconstructing California: From Christian Founding to Shutting Down Churches!
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Blockade of Boston's Harbor, Virginia's Day of Fasting, & the "shot heard round the world"
William Prescott -Revolutionary War Hero & the Battle of Bunker Hill
Indian Massacres, British Quartering, & the Boston Massacre
Flag Day-"Under God" & "to the FLAG and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands"
21-year-old patriot Nathan Hale "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country"
Battle of Brooklyn Heights & Providential Fog allowing Washington to Escape
"The American Crisis," December 1776, by Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine" From Patriot to Pariah, the Only Founder Without a Grave Site
Battle of Princeton "a military exploit of unparalleled brilliancy"
French Marquis de Lafayette - "adopted son" of Washington
John Paul Jones "I have not yet begun to fight!"
Boston Tea Party & What led up to it?
Starving Ships & the Freezing Winter at Valley Forge 1777-78
Spies, Traitors, Leaks, Betrayal: Benedict Arnold & America's "Enemies Foreign & Domestic"
Battle of Cowpens: a tactical masterpiece & turning point of the Revolutionary War
King's Mountain Battle to the Victory at Yorktown, & the End of the Revolutionary War
Newburgh Conspiracy broken up by George Washington
FOUNDERS & PATRIOTS
George Washington's Birthday - The First Presidents Day
The Death of Washington: "First in war, first in peace, & first in the hearts of his countrymen"
Sam Adams "Father of the American Revolution"
The Wisdom of John Adams: on Liberty, Tyranny, & the need for Christian virtue
Betsy Ross & Patriot Women of the Revolution: Courageous Wives, Mothers & Daughters
Benjamin Franklin & Pennsylvania's Role in Abolition of Slavery
Jefferson on Jesus, Religious Freedom, Conscience, Government, Indians, Islam, & more
Pastors in Politics during American Revolution: Hugh Williamson & other preachers
Jacob Duché - Continental Congress Prayer, and a caution to "Stand Fast"
Charles Carroll of Carrollton - Longest Living Signer of Declaration
Most Infamous Duel in American History: Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton
Roger Sherman, and the importance of gold & silver
James Madison & his defense of rights of conscience
Patrick Henry, George Mason, Thomas Jefferson, & James Madison-Freedom of Conscience & Religion
George Mason: Bill of Rights' Purpose is to Limit Federal Government
First Bible in English printed in America
Jefferson & Adams - 50 years after the Declaration of Independence
Forefathers sacrificed for POSTERITY - the "UNBORN MILLIONS"
18TH CENTURY AUTHORS, POETS & COMPOSERS
Johann Sebastian Bach & the Bible -"In devotional music, God is always present with His grace"
"Hark the Herald Angels Sing" - Charles Wesley
Famous Composers & their Christmas Music
U.S. CONSTITUTION
Constitution Day "A Republic, If You Can Keep It"
Anti-Federalists-"Liberty depends on men being virtuous enough to make laws to punish themselves"
Bill of Rights: "restrictive clauses" to stop Federal Government's "abuse of its powers"
John Langdon-A Courageous, Forgotten Founding Father & his role in ratifying the U.S. Constitution
Ancient Israel & Right of "the PEOPLE" to Keep & Bear Arms
U.S. Senate Chaplains & U.S. House Chaplains
SEPARATION CHURCH & STATE
Was the U.S. Constitution ratified by "Christian" states?
Treaty of Tripoli, & the confusion surrounding it explained in four points
"'Wall of separation,' a phrase nowhere to be found in the Constitution"-Justice Potter Stewart
Presidents Acknowledged God in Inaugural Addresses
Why "So Help Me God"?: The Purpose of an Oath
Presidents & Churches they attended
FRENCH REVOLUTION & NAPOLEON
French Revolution - Bastille Day & Reign of Terror "liberté, égalité, fraternité"
Intolerable Acts, Dr. Joseph Warren, & the Suffolk Resolves
How Napoleon Rearranged Global Politics
Dos de Mayo y Cinco de Mayo: Spain & Napoleon; Mexico & Maximillian
EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC
John Quincy Adams: His Fight Against Slavery & His Faith in the Bible
The History of Writing, Noah Webster's Dictionary & Old Public School Textbooks taught the Bible
Tennessee History, Heritage, & Faith
WAR OF 1812
Fort Mims attack, Battle of New Orleans & General Andrew Jackson
IN GOD WE TRUST National Motto -Francis Scott Key's anthem & his fight to free slaves
Daniel Webster "The Constitution has enemies, secret and professed"
BARBARY PIRATES
Jefferson & the Barbary Pirate Coast
Early Naval Heroes & the U.S. Naval Academy
BANK WARS
THE BANK WAR: Jackson v. Biddle
Andrew Jackson-"Old Hickory": A fiery General & President during America's Formative Era
SECOND GREAT AWAKENING
Jefferson organized a church & America's Second Great Awakening Revival
Dr. Livingstone, Scottish Missionary to the Congo, exposed Islamic slave trade in Africa
"Reverence for Life"- Albert Schweitzer, Medical Missionary to Africa
World's Largest Library-the Library of Congress, & Union Station: Acknowledgements of Faith
John Adams, his sons, and Henry Cabot Lodge: An Inheritance of American Liberty
Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England & Charles Finney's Lectures on Revival
Who invented Basketball & Volleyball?-History of YMCA, YWCA, Goodwill Industries
FOREIGN MISSIONARIES
Haystack Prayer Meeting & World Missionary Movement, pioneered by Adoniram & Ann Judson to Burma
WESTERN EXPANSION
Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery Expedition
Daniel Boone: famed hunter, explorer & pioneer
Nez Perce & Flathead Indians, Missionary Dr. Marcus & Narcissa Whitman, & the Oregon Trail
Robert Fulton, the Steamship, & National Maritime Day
"What Hath God Wrought"-Samuel Morse & the invention of the Telegraph
John Colter's run, Jedediah Smith, & the Mountain Men
Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Mountain Men of the Rockies, & fate of Buffalo & Indians from Railroads
Revolutions: French vs American; & term of 13th President Millard Fillmore
CHOLERA EPIDEMIC
TEXAS
Sam Houston & the Republic of TEXAS
"Remember the Alamo-Remember Goliad": New Spain & Texas History
South of the Border: Mexican Revolutions
LEADING UP TO CIVIL WAR
A President and a Poet: Franklin Pierce and Nathaniel Hawthorne
Civil War: What led up to the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment?
Frederick Douglass, Abolitionist Leader & Advisor to President Abraham Lincoln
Sojourner Truth, Betsey Stockton, Harriet Tubman, & Anna Murray-Douglass
Civil War: The Economic & Slavery Tensions Preceding It
Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic & efforts to end the slave trade
Bleeding Kansas, Uncle Tom's Cabin, John Brown, & Beecher's Bibles, and Preacher Henry Ward Beecher
CIVIL WAR
How Lee's Lost Order No. 191 changed the Civil War
Gettysburg Address-"Of the People, By the People, For the People"-Lincoln
Lincoln's Day of Fasting & two days later General Stonewall Jackson accidentally shot by his own men
Darwin Day v. Lincoln's Birthday: Born Exact Same Day - But Lives Had Opposite Effects
Quaker Anthony Benezet to Senator Charles Sumner: Anti-Slavery Champions
Robert E. Lee, Confederate General, & after War, a Leader in Reconciliation
Clara Barton & American Red Cross
Memorial Day - Honoring Heroes of Courage, Sacrifice & Faith
Memorial Day, Crimean War, & Alaska
THIRD GREAT AWAKENING
LATE 1800s GILDED AGE
President Garfield's warning at 100th anniversary of Declaration of Independence
India: "Oh, East is East & West is West, And never the twain shall meet... "-Rudyard Kipling
OTTOMAN EXPANSION
Albania's Two Kinds of Heroes: Mother Teresa & Skanderbeg
Historian Arnold Toynbee on Ottoman Empire, Armenian Massacre, & World Events
Grover Cleveland addressed Massacre in Armenia
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
Cuba & the struggle for freedom from slavery
19TH CENTURY AUTHORS, POETS & COMPOSERS
Victor Hugo - greatest of the Romanticist poets
"Until We Meet Again" & James T. Fields' The Atlantic Monthly, "The Captain's Daughter"
"My COUNTRY 'tis of Thee, Sweet LAND of LIBERTY," & how Patriotism is reverse of Marxism
19TH & 20TH CENTURY HISTORY & JEWISH IMMIGRATION
Presidents on Jewish persecution in Eastern Europe & the support of the State of Israel
WORLD WAR I
Christmas Truce of 1914 and selected Presidential Christmas Greetings
World War I - Middle East Oil - Sinking of the Lusitania - Woodrow Wilson - Sergeant York
Eddie Rickenbacker "Fighting the Flying Circus" & "Seven Came Through"
U.S. Military & Commanders-in-Chief: Role of Biblical Faith in America's Armed Forces
Bibles in Military given by Generals and Presidents
EARLY 1900'S
Panama Canal - over 100 American lives lost for each mile of 50 mile wide Isthmus
President was also Chief Justice? William Howard Taft
LOVE and NON-VIOLENT PROTEST: Booker T. Washington and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Machiavelli, Alinsky, the Criminal Mind, & FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
TAX HISTORY
Income Tax began as Civil War Emergency, Wilson made permanent, & FDR expanded it
Withholding Taxes from Paychecks
Labor Day, Railroad Strike & Eugene Debs, founder of the Socialist Party of America
SLAVERY HISTORY
Slavery - a long shameful history
SCOUTING
Who was Sir Robert Baden-Powell? His original vision for the Boy Scouts, & what has happened since
Girl Guides, Girl Scouts, Y.W.C.A., Camp Fire Girls & American Heritage Girls
ROARING TWENTIES
Successful Black Entrepreneurs
Helen Keller "Self-pity is our worst enemy"
How do Politicians become Corrupt? "The love of power and the love of money"-Franklin
Mother's Day Origins & Ageless Importance
Father's Day! "The call today is for heroes" -U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall
National Day of Prayer & "Back to God" Program under Eisenhower
20TH CENTURY REVIVALS
Billy Graham: "America has gone a long way down the wrong road..."
GREAT DEPRESSION
Stock Market Crash 1929 & the Great Depression & dangerous policy of government intervention
WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE
Miracle of Dunkirk & Sir Winston Churchill: his views on National Socialism & Sharia Islam
WWII Battle of the Bulge during the freezing winter of 1944-45
Sinking of the U.S.A.T. Dorchester & Four Chaplains Day
Fifth Column "These trouble-breeders have but one purpose - to divide our people"-FDR
Would Democrats nominate FDR today? - A flashback to 80 years ago!
WORLD WAR II IN PACIFIC
World War II in the Pacific, ramming of PT-109, & JFK's quotes on Religious Freedom, Israel & Faith
Battle of Midway-Turning Point in Pacific World War II
Pacific War with Imperial Japan & the Battle of Okinawa
KOREAN WAR & COLD WAR
Socialism/Communism vs. Democracy/Capitalism: Korean War "Freedom is Not Free"
Cold War, Socialism, & the Foreign Policy of Eisenhower & Secretary of State John Foster Dulles
Kennedy, Nixon on Castro's Cuba & USSR-Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics
Socialism-Communism - "Iron Curtain" & "Bamboo Curtain," compared to Freedom & Faith
Communist tactics to infiltrate & conquer the United States
UNITED NATIONS FOUNDED, BIRTH OF ISRAEL, & COLD WAR COMMUNISM
U.N.'s "high ideals" replaced with "growing disregard for UN Charter" with no Creator-given rights
The Pope that stood against Socialism -- John Paul II
The Public Faith of JFK - "All men are brothers ... God placed us on Earth together."
John F. Kennedy shot. What did he & others warn America?
How Landslide Lyndon "won" Senate race in 1948? - And U.S. entered Vietnam War!
FLIGHT & SPACE
Charles Lindbergh's historic flight & his aviator-author wife, Anne Lindbergh
Robert Goddard "Father of Modern Rocketry, & Wernher von Braun, Father of Modern Space Flight
Apollo 11 Moon Landing & Communion on the Moon
20TH CENTURY AUTHORS, POETS & COMPOSERS
"NEW JERSEY is being INVADED by MARTIANS!!!" H.G. Wells, his novels & probing moral questions
"God Bless America" -- written by Russian Jewish immigrant Irving Berlin
C.S. Lewis - "The safest road to Hell is the gradual one..."
"Two Roads Diverge in the Woods ..."-Robert Frost, Four Time Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet
HOLLYWOOD
"A Man Called Peter": U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall
POLITICAL HISTORY
Montesquieu: 3 Types of Governments & What Makes Them Work
Character, religion, virtue, & moral education are necessary in a Republic
William Henry Harrison: Shortest Term, Longest Inaugural, Gravest Warning
America: An Experiment in Self-Government
Scandals Ancient & Modern: "The end" does not justify "the means"!
Women can Vote: Voting History, Methods of Manipulation, & Price of Eternal Vigilance!
FAITH cited in Early Inaugural Addresses, with some Warnings Against Socialism!
Washington's Prediction of Coups to Usurp Power, by Courts, Political Parties, Deep State
Power Concentrating: Warnings of Federal Deep-State Despotism
Usurpation of Power by Courts with responses of former Presidential Candidates
MODERN ERA
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Baptist Preacher
Wording of First Amendment & Who Twisted It
Margaret Thatcher & England's Past & Future?
ISRAEL & MIDDLE EAST
WWI, Kaiser, Sultan, Chaim Weizmann & Birth of Modern Day Israel
The State of Israel: Ancient & Modern
LEGAL HISTORY
What Kind of Justice would Madison pick? -Justice Joseph Story
Supreme Court - America a Christian Nation - Justice David Brewer
Judge Learned Hand "What then is the spirit of liberty"
SCIENCE HISTORY
Great Plague of London & Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Frances Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Astronomy, & the Scientific Revolution
Robert Boyle-Father of Chemistry & Blaise Pascal-Father of Hydraulic Engineering
"Old Ironsides" USS Constitution - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., & his dissenting son
Albert Einstein "I observe the Laws of Nature ... There are not Laws without a Lawgiver"
LIFE & HEALTHCARE
Healthcare, Hospitals & History of Christian Charity
Obamacare Decision: Today's Dred Scott