The American Minute

The importance of elections was declared by President Calvin Coolidge, April 19, 1926: "The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box.”  First,...

Booker T. Washington was born in a slave hut on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia, APRIL 5, 1856.He taught himself to read and write,...

Beginning in the late 700s, Vikings from Scandinavia, called Danes and Swedes, began raiding the coasts and up the rivers of England and Europe. Since they were from "the north," they were referred to as Norse...

Download as PDF ... In 1983, Republican President Ronald Reagan signed the bill to make the third Monday in January a holiday in honor of Baptist Pastor, Reverend...

Booker T. Washington, the founder of Tuskegee Institute, delivered an address at Memorial Hall in Columbus, Ohio, May 24, 1900. The description was recorded in The Booker T. Washington...

By the time of the Civil War, the slave population in the United States had grown to four million. The two major political parties in...

Plato was a Greek philosopher who lived in the city-state of Athens. In 380 B.C., Plato wrote The Republic, where he described in Books 8 and 9: "States are as the...

"Doctor Livingstone, I presume," stated New York Herald reporter Henry Stanley on November 10, 1871, as he met David Livingstone on the banks of Africa's Lake Tanganyika. Dr. Livingstone was the internationally renowned missionary...

Abortion became legal in all nine months of pregnancy on January 22, 1973, with the Supreme Court decisions Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton. Norma McCorvey, who...

Houthis of Yemen have been in the news for attacking ships in the Red Sea. A little geography is helpful. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers run...