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Profiles of 1776 | Arthur Middleton
Week of August 31
South Carolina produced many glittering names in the founding generation, but few embodied the colony’s contradictions as completely as Arthur Middleton. Heir to one of the...
Profiles of 1776 | William Moultrie
Week of August 24
South Carolina—that most glamorous, contradictory, diverse of American colonies—was considered to be the emotional leader of the southern colonies during the founding years. Not…
Profiles of 1776 | Thomas Paine
Week of August 17
A consummate “atrocity propagandist,” no single individual influenced American perceptions to a greater degree in the year 1776 than English-born essayist Thomas Paine. In January of that…
Profiles of 1776 | Elizabeth Annesley Lewis
Week of August 10
In the course of Providence, when Elizabeth Lewis’ husband, Francis, put his name to the Declaration of Independence, he signed away not only his own life but—most tangibly—hers as well. He…
Profiles of 1776 | John Hancock
Week of August 3
While reduced in national memory to little more than his unapologetically large signature at the bottom of the Declaration of Independence, the life and contributions of John Hancock to our…
Profiles of 1776 | Richard Henry Lee
Week of June 29
In an era that expected its statesmen not only to hold defensible positions but to articulate them with eloquence worthy of the stage, Richard Henry Lee earned the moniker “The Cicero of Virginia.”
Profiles of 1776 | The Wolcott Family
Week of June 15
Few anecdotes from America’s pivotal year of 1776 are as delightful as the one involving Founding Father, soldier, and Connecticut representative Oliver Wolcott and his remarkable little family…
John Dunlap | Profiles of 1776
Week of June 1
The distribution of truth has been labeled a treasonous act many times throughout the ages. Publishers have often been persecuted—whether for printing Bibles, tracts, or treatises—and have…
Caesar Rodney | Profiles of 1776
Week of May 25
Perilous times produce heroes of all types, and it was God’s particular grace on America during her founding era to possess men whose courage matched their vast intellect. Each delegate who…
John Glover & His Marblehead Sailors | Profiles of 1776
Week of May 11
In the good old colony days, all along New England’s great north shore, a certain breed of American had sprung up. They were rugged…
Joseph Reed | Profiles of 1776
Week of May 4
Joseph Reed was a charming and proficient London-trained attorney residing in Philadelphia when George Washington accepted command of the American Army in 1775. With the Continental…
Nathanael Greene | Profiles of 1776
Week of April 27
The American Revolution was a “young man’s cause,” as historian David McCullough observed, noting that the average patriot was under the age of forty-five—with the commander-in-chief of the…
John Winthrop’s Model of Christian Charity: A Vision for America, April 25, 1630
Week of April 20
The spring of 1630 found England restless under a king seemingly bent on stamping out the pure, gospel-based worship so many devout souls…
The Other Side of the Night: RMS Carpathia, April 14-15, 1912
Week of April 13
The tragedy and heroism that marked the sinking of the RMS Titanic amidst the vast ice fields of the North Atlantic has rightly kept our…
Death of Britain’s Wartime Queen, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, March 30, 2002
Week of March 30
When young debutante Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon declined Prince Albert’s first proposal to her in 1921, it was not for lack of affection for him…
The Continental Congress Resolves Upon a National Day of Prayer, March 16, 1776
Week of March 16
Amidst grave alarm over the protracted siege of Boston, threats to the safety of New York, and the crushing response from King George in…
Letters of ’76: Mercy Otis Warren to John Adams, March 10, 1776
Week of March 9
Mercy Otis Warren came from distinguished Massachusetts stock that could trace their lineage as far back as the Mayflower. While not “formally”…
Tragedy Aboard the USS Princeton: President Tyler’s Cabinet Decimated, 1844
Week of February 23
The single deadliest tragedy to claim multiple top government officials happened on February 28, 1844, during a Potomac River pleasure cruise…
Corporal Thomas William Bennett, Awarded the Medal of Honor, 1969
Week of February 9
Few conflicts in the course of American history have stirred such profound division and soul-searching as the Vietnam War. This era was marked by new…
The Aftermath of Knox’s Noble Train
Week of January 26
Following Henry Knox’s prodigious feat in January 1776 of moving 60 plus abandoned cannon for the patriot cause over 400 miles of treacherous terrain for the relief of Boston, several notable…
Henry Knox and the Guns of Fort Ticonderoga, 1776
Week of January 19
It is not hyperbole to say that America has produced some of the most singularly audacious individuals in the history of the world. And they, in turn, were…
Robert F. Scott’s Expedition Reaches the South Pole, 1912
Week of January 12
The continent of Antarctica lived in our imaginations long before any report of her was made in recorded history. The Greeks of the ancient world, knowing…
The Martyrdom of St. Polyeuctus, AD 259
Week of January 5
Throughout the history of the Roman Empire, devout Christians can be found among the ranks of its elite military. They served despite tensions of conscience arising from the army’s integral…