Paul Revere’s Ride, 1775
Week of April 16
There are several famous horseback rides in American history, not counting at racetracks. Delegate Caesar Rodney made a midnight ride from...
The Battle of Ft. Sumter Begins, 1861
Week of April 9
April 12, 1861 the United States Navy tried to resupply Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. The State of South Carolina claimed...
The Battle of Shiloh, 1862
Week of April 2
The month of April being Confederate History Month, at least in Shenandoah County, Virginia, we would do well to remember the battle that shattered the preconceptions of...
American Army Abandons Saigon, March 29, 1973
Week of March 26
In 1887 France added Vietnam to its imperial properties and put its own unique stamp on what became known as ...
Robert the Bruce Crowned King of Scotland, 1306
Week of March 19
For more than two hundred years, the House of Canmore, eight kings in succession, had ruled Scotland. In 1285, King Alexander III wed a...
The Birth of Georg Philipp Telemann, 1681
Week of March 12
The Protestant Reformation produced two different approaches to worship among those who left the Roman Church. The “Calvinistic” Reformation sought a return...
The “Spanish Flu” Outbreak Declared, 1918
Week of March 5
When discussing the providence of God in history, one must take into account natural phenomena as well as the lives of people. Great men and intellectual or ideological...
The Birth of Alexander Graham Bell, 1847
Week of February 26
At the beginning of the 21st Century, American historian Arthur Herman published a book entitled How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western...
James Renwick, Last Covenanter Martyr, 1668
Week of February 12
Upon the “Restoration” of King Charles II to the English monarchy in 1660, after the Commonwealth period of Oliver Cromwell, the persecution of...
The Birth of Charles Dickens, February 7, 1812
Week of February 5
For more than a century, the literary world proclaimed Charles Dickens the greatest novelist in the English language. With the deconstruction of literary standards and the moral turpitude that...