Week of December 9
Almost two years into the war that President Lincoln declared upon his own people in order to constrain the southern states to remain in the union…
Week of November 25
“I will sing of the Lord’s great love forever” declared the psalmist, “with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known through all generations.” It is a duty to give thanks to the Lord…
Week of November 18
At the height of America’s Gilded Age, Hiram Bingham III—American paragon of self-made academic prowess and explorational accomplishment…
Week of November 11
Also known as Remembrance Day, and observed as such by countries across the globe, the eleventh of November marks the anniversary of the ceasing of hostilities between the Allied and…
Week of November 18
A mere sixteen years after the Mayflower deposited her few intrepid passengers on the wild and barren shores of Plymouth Harbor, the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay…
Week of October 21
Due in part to our rich heritage of blended cultures and our abundance of exceptional characters, along with the distinctly public method of our electoral process, America…
Week of September 23
In the late 1500s, Reformation was sweeping across Europe and the grand colonizing nations of the old world were at odds with each other over matters religious and…
Week of September 16
The clash of Union and Confederate armies at the small Appalachian town of Chickamauga was one of the costliest engagements of the American Civil War with 125,000…
Week of September 9
A little over a century ago, Polish novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz (pronounced sane-KAY-vitch) stood apart as an international literary phenomenon when he accepted his…
Week of September 2
On this day, while on holiday in Scotland with her family, aspiring naturalist Beatrix Potter penned a note to cheer the son of a friend, a little lad who had been confined…
