Saturday, December 8th, 2018 by Bill Federer -- The play "Fiddler on the Roof" recounts the story of Jewish persecution in Eastern Europe and Russia. President Abraham Lincoln, shortly after he signed the Emancipation Proclamation, met more…

Friday, December 7th, 2018 by Bill Federer -- Throughout history, there have been those motivated by greed, who: took land from Indians sold people into slavery hung signs in their shops: "Help Wanted-No Irish Immigrants Need more…

Thursday, December 6th, 2018 by Bill Federer -- "I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars," promised more…

Wednesday, December 5th, 2018 by Bill Federer -- St. Nicholas is the most popular Greek Orthodox saint, equivalent to St. Peter in Roman Catholic tradition. Greek Orthodox traditions tells of Saint Nicholas being born around A.D. more…

Tuesday, December 4th, 2018 by Bill Federer -- When Evangelist George Whitefield began preaching the Great Awakening Revival in Philadelphia in 1739, he inspired the idea that the city should have a school for blacks and more…

Monday, December 3rd, 2018 by Bill Federer -- Indians gnawed off two of his fingers and roughly sawed off his thumb. He escaped and with the help of Dutch traders and made his way back to more…

Sunday, December 2nd, 2018 by Bill Federer -- The Muslim pirate Barbarossa wrecked havoc in the Mediterranean in the early 1500s, raiding the coasts of France, Italy and Spain, carrying away thousands of Europeans into slavery. more…

Friday, November 30th, 2018 by Bill Federer -- During the 1787 Constitutional Convention, the pro-slavery South wanted to count slaves as part of their population so that they could have more representatives in Congress, and more more…