Sunday, August 19th, 2018 by Bill Federer -- Three hundred thousand miles on horseback, from the Atlantic to the Appalachians, from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico, for 45 years, he spread the Gospel. This was more…

Friday, August 17th, 2018 by Bill Federer -- "A conservative among liberals, and a liberal among conservatives," he was not consistently conservative enough for Republican President Warren G. Harding and he was not consistently liberal enough more…

Thursday, August 16th, 2018 by Bill Federer -- After having the Declaration of Independence read to his troops, General George Washington issued the order, July 9, 1776: "Commanding officers of each regiment are directed to procure more…

Wednesday, August 15th, 2018 by Bill Federer -- Sir William Blackstone's "Commentaries on the Laws of England," published 1765-1769 by Oxford's Clarendon Press, had an immense influence on America's founders, being considered the definitive pre-Revolutionary source more…

Tuesday, August 14th, 2018 by Bill Federer -- Napoleon was born Aug. 15, 1769. After his education, he was commissioned in the French military in 1785, and quickly advanced. When the French Revolution began, he was more…

Monday, August 13th, 2018 by Bill Federer -- V-J Day, Aug. 14, 1945, President Harry S. Truman stated at a news conference announcing the end of World War II: "I have received this afternoon a message more…

Sunday, August 12th, 2018 by Bill Federer -- "New Jersey is being invaded by Martians!" exclaimed actor Orson Welles. He was reading the script of a 1938 radio drama based on the novel "The War of more…

Saturday, August 11th, 2018 by Bill Federer -- "O Beautiful, For Spacious Skies, For Amber Waves of Grain ..." Almost chosen as the national anthem in 1926, "America the Beautiful" was written by Katherine Lee Bates, more…

Friday, August 10th, 2018 by Bill Federer -- In an attempted to warn the nation, the Democrat Congressman from Florida, Albert S. Herlong, Jr., read into the U.S Congressional Record, Jan. 10, 1963, the list of more…