The American Minute

In the decades prior to the Revolutionary War, tensions arose between the two largest global powers: BRITAIN, led by King George II, and FRANCE, led by...

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...

The New Yorker ran the headline, January 4, 2024, “Biden makes saving democracy the center of his campaign.” The first notable democracy was in Athens, Greece....

Both served in the Continental Congress. Both signed the Declaration of Independence. Both served as U.S. Ministers in France. Both were U.S. Presidents, one elected the 2nd President and...

Democrats passed laws called "Black Codes," which included taking guns away from Blacks. The Democrat Legislature of North Carolina passed a Black Code, published in 1825: "No slave shall go armed with gun, sword, club, or other weapon, or...

President Ronald Reagan declared May 9, 1983: "The Founding Fathers understood that only by MAKING GOVERNMENT THE SERVANT, not the master, only by positing SOVEREIGNTY in THE...

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., was born October 27, 1858. As a child, he had debilitating asthma, often waking up at night as if being smothered to death. At 6-years-old, he...

During the Civil War, on March 30, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a National Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer. Lincoln stated: "Whereas, the Senate of the United States devoutly...

U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Center for Disease Control, and other agencies report that children from fatherless homes are: Five times more likely to live...

Albert Schweitzer was born January 14, 1875, in a village in Alsace, Germany. The son of a Lutheran-Evangelical pastor, he won acclaim at playing the organ. He...