Sir Robert Baden Powell and the Boy Scouts – American Minute with Bill Federer
Bill FedererLISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... The Boy Scout movement was begun in England in 1908 by by Sir Robert Baden-Powell. Two years later, February 8,…
Smallpox during the Revolution and Dr. Benjamin Rush – American Minute with Bill Federer
LISTEN (text to speech Download as PDF ... "Disease has destroyed ten men for us, where the sword of the enemy has killed one" -wrote John Adams to…
Women of the Revolutionary War: “As there were Fathers in our Republic so there were Mothers”-Coolidge – American Minute with Bill Federer
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... Courageous women have always played a vital role in American history. Addressing the Daughters of the American Revolution, April 19,…
Robert Frost, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet “Two Roads Diverge in the Woods …” – American Minute with Bill Federer
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And…
Panama Canal – cost over 100 American lives per mile of 50 mile wide Isthmus – American Minute with Bill Federer
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... Canal construction has spanned history: Mesopotamia and India had the oldest canals for irrigation, circa 3,000 B.C.; China's Grand Canal, begun in…
New England Grant (February 12, 1629)
New England Grant (February 12, 1629) to Thomas Lewis and Richard Bonighton by the Council for New England: <To all Christian people to whom these present writing indented shall come, the…
John Bunyan (November 1628-August 31, 1688)
John Bunyan (November 1628-August 31, 1688) was an English author who wrote the classic work, The Pilgrim's Progress, 1678. Born in Bedford, England, he was a poor, unskilled tinker by trade.…
Dutch Reformed Church Letter (August 11, 1628)
Dutch Reformed Church Letter (August 11, 1628) addressed to Rev. Adrianus Smoutius, Member of the Consistory of the Dutch Reformed Church, Amsterdam: <At the first administration of the Lord's Supper which…
John Ray (November 29, 1627-January 17, 1705)
John Ray (November 29, 1627-January 17, 1705) was a British biologist and natural theologian who founded of the Royal Society. Considered the father of English natural history, he was a respected…
Company of a Hundred Associates (April 29, 1627)
Company of a Hundred Associates (April 29, 1627) (COMPAGNIE DES CENT-ASSOCIÉS): <King Henry the Great, our father of glorious memory, did seek and discover the lands and countries of New France,…