The American Minute

Christopher Columbus (1451-May 20, 1506) was a Genoese explorer who sailed to America. After Muslim Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453, land routes were cut off from Europe to India and China....

Theodore Roosevelt stated October 24, 1903:  "In no other place and at no other time has the experiment of government of the people, by the people, for the people, been tried on so vast...

Armenia's last Arsacid king was deposed in 428 AD, ending an independent Armenia until the rise of Bagratid Armenia in the 9th century. Armenia's thousands of years of history included independence, interspersed with occupations...

One of the oldest civilizations is that of the Armenians. According to ancient tradition, Noah's Ark rested on Mount Ararat in the Armenian Mountain Range. Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat is featured on Armenia's National Coat...

The oath of military enlistment states: "I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign...

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,...

Columbus was looking for a SEA route to India and China because nearly 40 years earlier Muslim Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453 cutting off the...

"Society ... must repose on principles that do not change" -- wrote Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, 1748, Book 24.   Montesquieu was a French political philosopher whose books...

"Old Man Eloquent" John Quincy Adams suffered a stroke at his desk in the House chamber. He had just given an impassioned speech against the Democrat plan to expand...

Slavery did not start in 1619. It began with kings. Wherever there was the first king on top there were slaves on the bottom. From the beginning of recorded history, Kings fought battles. When kings were victorious, they considered...