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ANCIENT & CLASSICAL HISTORY
Assyria: Will the "Cradle of Civilization ... become its Grave"?
Armenia - Ancient and Modern Times
The Ten Commandments, and the importance of an educated & moral population
How Democracies & Republics Rise & Fall: Crash Course on Plato's Republic
Jerusalem destroyed by Rome - then Rome devastated by Volcano, Fire, Plague
ROME & EARLY CHURCH
Roman Persecution of Early Church
The Fall of Rome - What Can We Learn?
Christmas Eve through the Years
Christmas Day! - "the magnetic needle of history stands vertical and points up"
Origin of Christmas Date, Tree, Poinsettia, White House Christmas, Lights & Carols
MIDDLE AGES & CRUSADES
Johannes Gutenberg and the invention of the Printing Press
RENAISSANCE & AGE OF DISCOVERY
Marco Polo, Islamic Jihad & the REAL reason Columbus sailed West
Columbus' Miscalculation: How Far Around is the Round Earth
The End of the World & Why Columbus risked sailing to West to go East
The Doldrums: Columbus' 3rd Voyage, Coleridge poem & Booker T. Washington's Atlanta speech
Explorers circumnavigating the Earth, from Magellan & Drake to the Space Shuttle
Cortes and the Fall of Mexico's Aztec Empire
HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE v. OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Sept. 11 - Political Islam's Long War on the West
Sinking of Invincible Spanish Armada, 1588
17TH CENTURY AUTHORS, POETS & COMPOSERS
Cervantes in Spain & Shakespeare in England
England's Civil War & John Bunyan
John Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress
REFORMATION
A Short History of Russia, from Vikings to Ivan the Terrible to Communism
Martin Luther, the Reformation and Protestantism
Connecting the Dots: Islamic Expansion - Renaissance - Reformation & John Knox - Revolution
COLONIAL AMERICA
England's Virgin Queen Elizabeth I
The Notorious Star Chamber and the Pilgrims fleeing to Holland & New England
Pilgrims set sail: A mini-course in Self-Government
Pilgrim Elder William Brewster
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
Dutch Global Empire - East Indies to New Amsterdam
William Penn and his Quaker Colony
William Penn's Holy Experiment
William Penn's Pennsylvania - "God will make it the seed of a nation"
Religious Tolerance & Freedom of Conscience in Pennsylvania: William Penn to Ben Franklin
Praying Indians & the tragic King Philip's War
John Harvard and Harvard University
Père Marquette, French Missionaries in North America, and the founding of Chicago
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
Pirates of the Caribbean, War of Jenkin's Ear, & The Ballad of the French Fleet
INDIAN HISTORY
David Brainerd, Missionary to Indians
Indian Removal Act & Trail of Tears
Indian migration, hunter-gatherers to agriculture, & 500 years with 8 policies
Indian Policies & the Struggle between Greed and the Gospel
PIRATES
Earthquake in Port Royal & Revival in Jamaica
GREAT AWAKENING
George Whitefield and the Great Awakening Revival
Battle for the Minds of the Children
Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf & the Moravian Missionaries
Revivals, Universities, and the preaching of Jonathan Edwards/a>
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
First Prayer in Congress, September 1774
Harvard President Samuel Langdon & Harvard Professor Clay Christensen
Flag Day-"Under God" & "to the Republic"
21-year-old hero "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" - Nathan Hale
Battle of Brooklyn Heights & Providential Fog allowing Washington to Escape
"The American Crisis," December 1776, by Thomas Paine
Battle of Princeton "a military exploit of unparalleled brilliancy"
John Paul Jones "I have not yet begun to fight!"
Boston Tea Party & What led up to it?
Victory of the Battle of Saratoga-one of the most important battles in world history!
Freezing Winter at Valley Forge 1777-78
Benedict Arnold: Spies & Traitors leaked, betrayed America- "Enemies Foreign & Domestic"
Battle of Cowpens - a tactical masterpiece & turning point of the Revolutionary War
King's Mountain to Yorktown & the End of the Revolutionary War
Newburgh Conspiracy broken up - by George Washington
FOUNDERS & PATRIOTS
The Death of Washington: "First in war, first in peace, & first in the hearts of his countrymen"
Sam Adams "Father of the American Revolution"
John Adams on Tyranny, Liberty, and the need for Christian virtue
Betsy Ross & Courageous Women of the Revolution
John Peter Muhlenberg: Pastor, Major-General, Congressman & Senator
Benjamin Franklin & Pennsylvania's Role in Abolition of Slavery
Hugh Williamson and Pastors in Politics in Colonial America
Jacob Duché Continental Congress Prayer, and a caution to "Stand Fast"
Charles Carroll of Carrollton - Longest Living Signer of Declaration
Alexander Hamilton v. Aaron Burr
James Madison & George Mason - Freedom of Conscience & Free Exercise of Religion
George Mason: Bill of Rights' Purpose is to Limit Federal Government
First Bible in English printed in America
Adams-Jefferson died on the SAME day
18TH CENTURY AUTHORS, POETS & COMPOSERS
"Hark the Herald Angels Sing" - Charles Wesley
Famous Composers and 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"
A Forgotten Founding Father's Role in Ratifying the U.S. Constitution - John Langdon
Fisher Ames "A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction"
Ancient Israel & Right of "the PEOPLE" to Keep & Bear Arms
Not to Vote is to Abdicate the Throne! - Who is the King in America?
U.S. Constitution versus Sharia
SEPARATION CHURCH & STATE
Christian States ratified U.S. Constitution
"Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state" - Lynch v. Donnelly, 1984
It is Legal to Pray in School (Voluntarily!)
Presidents Acknowledged God in Inaugural Addresses
Senator Byrd - God acknowledged in the U.S. Capitol
"So Help Me God" - What is the Purpose of an Oath?
Presidents & the Churches they attended
America the Beautiful-God acknowledged in all 50 State Constitutions
FRENCH REVOLUTION & NAPOLEON
Bastille Day & French Revolution's Reign of Terror
James Otis on government tracking, & Mercy Otis Warren "The Conscience of the American Revolution"
Joseph Warren & the Suffolk Resolves
How Napoleon impacted the World
French Louisiana Territory & Napoleon
"Duty" - Admiral Horatio Nelson
EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC
Noah Webster: History of Writing & Education
WAR OF 1812
War of 1812 & Madison's Prayers
Daniel Webster "The Constitution has enemies, secret and professed"
BARBARY PIRATES
An Appeal to Heaven-Birth of U.S. Navy & Coast Guard
James McHenry, Secretary of War
U.S. Naval Academy & faith of courageous navy officers
William Lloyd Garrison, Henry David Thoreau, & Ralph Waldo Emerson
BANK WARS
SECOND GREAT AWAKENING
Francis Asbury, circuit riding preacher
Jefferson organized a church & America's Second Great Awakening Revival
Black Preachers John Marrant, Harry Hosier, Andrew Bryan & Richard Allen
Black Missionaries to Jamaica, Hawaii, & Wyandotte Indians who founded Kansas City
Hawaiian Christian Missionaries to Marquesas Islands
Dr. Livingstone exposed Islamic slave trade in Africa
"Reverence for Life"- Albert Schweitzer, Medical Missionary to Africa
John Adams, his sons & Henry Cabot Lodge
William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England & Charles Finney's Revivals
FOREIGN MISSIONARIES
WESTERN EXPANSION
Daniel Boone: famed hunter, explorer & pioneer
Nez Perce & Flathead Indians, Missionary Dr. Marcus Whitman, & the Oregon Trail
President John Tyler's Day of Fasting
Alexis de Tocqueville: Christianity v, Islam, & how America's freedoms end
"What Hath God Wrought"-Samuel Morse & the Telegraph
Mountain Men-John Colter, Jedediah Smith
Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, & Buffalo Bill
13th President - Millard Fillmore
CHOLERA EPIDEMIC
Cholera-the First Global Epidemic & President Zachary Taylor's Day of Fasting
TEXAS
South of the Border - Mexico's Political Revoltuions
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, Harriet Tubman, Anna Murray-Douglass
Cotton & Slavery Crises Leading to Civil War
Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic & efforts to end the slave trade
Bleeding Kansas, John Brown, Beecher's Bibles & Preacher Henry Ward Beecher
CIVIL WAR
How Lee's Lost Order No. 191 changed the Civil War
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address-"Of the People, By the People, For the People"
Lincoln's Day of Fasting & General Stonewall Jackson shot
Darwin Day v. Lincoln's Birthday: Born Exact Same Day - But Lives Had Opposite Effects
Peter Cartwright, Abraham Lincoln, & Final Farewell at Springfield, Illinois
Robert E Lee-Civil War & Healing Efforts Afterwards
Clara Barton & American Red Cross
Mark Twain-Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Memorial Day, Crimean War, & Alaska
THIRD GREAT AWAKENING
LATE 1800s GILDED AGE
History of India: "Oh, East is East, and West is West, And never the twain shall meet ... "
OTTOMAN EXPANSION
Albania's Two Kinds of Heroes: Mother Teresa & Skanderbeg
Historian Arnold Toynbee on Ottoman Empire and Armenian Massacre
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk "Father of Modern Turkey" versus Adnan Menderes "The Great Riot of Istanbul"
Grover Cleveland addressed Massacre in Armenia
Grover Cleveland, Winston Churchill, & Hilaire Belloc on the crises of the 1890's
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
Cuba & the struggle for freedom from slavery
19TH CENTURY AUTHORS, POETS & COMPOSERS
Herman Melville's classic whaling novel Moby Dick
"Until We Meet Again" & James T. Fields' The Atlantic Monthly, "The Captain's Daughter"
My Country tis of thee - Sweet Land of Liberty
19TH & 20TH CENTURY HISTORY & JEWISH IMMIGRATION
Presidents on Jewish persecution in Eastern Europe & the support of Israel
WORLD WAR I
Christmas Truce of 1914 and Presidential Christmas Addresses
Middle East Oil, factors leading up to WWI, Woodrow Wilson & Sergeant York
Eddie Rickenbacker "Fighting the Flying Circus" & "Seven Came Through"
U.S. Military's Tradition of Faith
Bibles in Military given by Generals and Presidents
EARLY 1900'S
President was also Chief Justice? William Howard Taft
Booker T. Washington - "A person should get into the habit of reading his Bible."
LOVE & NON-VIOLENT PROTEST: Booker T. Washington & Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Calvin Coolidge on the Deep State
J. Edgar Hoover, Crime & the FBI
TAX HISTORY
Labor Day-Its Interesting Origin
SLAVERY HISTORY
Slavery - a long shameful history
Slavery-Who spread it & Who fought to end it!
SCOUTING
Sir Robert Baden-Powell's original vision for the Boy Scouts & how it changed
ROARING TWENTIES
George Washing Carver & his Faith in God
Father's Day & forgotten Founding Father-Samuel Chase
National Day of Prayer & Presidential Leadership in Crisis
20TH CENTURY REVIVALS
Billy Graham: "America has gone a long way down the wrong road..."
GREAT DEPRESSION
Stock Market Crash - 1929 - The Great Depression
WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE
Miracle of Dunkirk & Winston Churchill on Nazism and Islam
Sinking of the U.S.A.T. Dorchester & Four Chaplains Day
Dietrich Bonhoffer & the Confessing Church opposing Nazism
WORLD WAR II IN PACIFIC
Pearl Harbor attacked FDR responded with U.S. entering World War II
WWII in Pacific, PT-109, & John F. Kennedy
Battle of Midway-Turning Point in Pacific
Imperial Japan & the Battle of Okinawa
V-J Day-Defeating Enemies of Civilization
Courage & Faith in Pacific War: Pearl Harbor to Calvary - Mitsuo Fuchida
KOREAN WAR & COLD WAR
Korean War & growing threat of Socialism/Communism
John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State
Iron Curtain & Bamboo Curtain: Tyranny under Socialist & Communist Dictatorships
Communist tactics to infiltrate & conquer the United States
UNITED NATIONS FOUNDED, BIRTH OF ISRAEL, & COLD WAR COMMUNISM
Harry S Truman: opposing communism, defending democracy, and supporting Israel
John F. Kennedy shot! What did he, and other leaders, warn Americans of?
"How Landslide Lyndon" stole Senate race in 1948? - And U.S. entered Vietnam War!
FLIGHT & SPACE
Robert Goddard "Father of Modern Rocketry, & Wernher von Braun, Father of Modern Space Flight
Manned Space Flight & Faith of Astronauts
Apollo 13 "Houston, we've had a problem"
20TH CENTURY AUTHORS, POETS & COMPOSERS
Irving Berlin & God Bless America
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
Mad Anthony Wayne, Bruce Wayne, & John Wayne
POLITICAL HISTORY
Montesquieu: 3 Types of Governments & What Makes Them Work
William Henry Harrison: Shortest Term, Longest Inaugural, Gravest Warning
In-depth look: Civil Rights & Politics of Race - It's not black & white
Political Scandals: The end DOESN'T justify the means!
Women can Vote: Voting History, Methods of Manipulation, & Price of Eternal Vigilance!
Danger of Power Concentrated in Deep-State Federal Government
MODERN ERA
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Baptist Preacher
England's Transformation: What would Margaret Thatcher think of it?
ISRAEL & MIDDLE EAST
Innocence Abroad - Mark Twain's visit to the Middle East under Ottoman Rule
Kaiser, Sultan, World War I, Chaim Weizmann & the Birth of Modern Day Israel
Birth of Modern State of Israel in 1948
Six Day War 1967 & Yom Kippur War 1973
LEGAL HISTORY
What Kind of Justice would Madison pick? -Justice Joseph Story
John Marshall, Supreme Court Chief Justice
SCIENCE HISTORY
Sir Frances Bacon, Johannes Kepler, the Scientific Revolution & Astronomy
Father of Chemistry Robert Boyle, & Father of Hydraulic Engineering Blaise Pascal
Faith of Famous Astronomers & a church organist who discovered a planet - Sir William Herschel
Scopes Monkey Trial-Evolution v. Creation; Darrow v. Bryan
LIFE & HEALTHCARE
History of Hospitals & Healthcare
Obamacare Decision: Today's Dred Scott