The American Minute

A descendant of Protestant Reformer John Knox, Witherspoon was educated at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and afterwards served as a Presbyterian pastor. His writings brought him to the attention...

"FREEDOM IS NOT FREE" is the inscription on the Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C. The Korean War started June 25, 1950. Communist North Korea invaded South Korea, killing thousands. Outnumbered South Korean and American troops, as...

Memorial Day in America, as an annual observance, can be traced back to the end of the Civil War, a war in which over a half-million died.  Southern...

When Clara Barton was ten-years-old, her older brother, David, fell off the roof of a barn during barn-raising in Massachusetts. The doctors had given up hope on him, but Clara helped...

"Christian persecution 'at near genocide levels'" reported the BBC, (5/3/19): "A report ordered by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt ... Christians were the most persecuted religious group ... Mr...

After the Civil War, abolitionist Julia Ward Howe, writer of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic, led a Mother's Day for Peace in New York on June 2,...

Among the many U.S. Navy and Marine heroes confronting Tripoli's Muslim Barbary pirates was Captain James Lawrence. In 1804, Captain Lawrence was second-in-command, under Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, of an expedition...

Do you know America’s tradition of Days of Prayer? In Alexander Young’s Chronicles of the Pilgrims, (Boston, 1841), Edward Winslow recounted: “Drought and the like … moved...

There is a controversial new label the mainstream media is using, Christian nationalism? What is it? To answer that, there are three points to consider: The first...

The sun never set on the British Empire. It was the largest empire in world history. Out of nearly 200 countries in the world, only 22 were...