2023
The Christmas Truce, 1914
Week of December 24
Entering 2024, we will soon mark the 110th anniversary of the commencement of the First World War—“the war to end all wars”. In 1914 the nations of Europe collectively...
Removal of the Reconciliation Monument at Arlington, 2023
Week of December 17
The year was 1898; war with Spain loomed on the horizon. William McKinley, the last Union Civil War veteran elected to the presidency,...
Attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941
Week of December 3
It was a quiet Sunday morning at Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor, home of America’s U.S. Pacific Fleet. At five minutes before 8:00, many of the 60,000 sailors and other military personnel stationed there were still...
The Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, 1864
Week of November 26
On a late Indian Summer’s day, the crippled Confederacy gave its last valiant gasp when 33,000 brave southern men and boys charged the Union Army’s entrenchments amongst the homes and...
The Knights Templar Destroyed, 1307
Week of November 19
Mohammed, the founder and prophet of Islam, and his successors, spread their new religion across the Middle East, North Africa, and parts of Asia beginning in the 7th Century, through conquest...
Nast Cartoon Debuts the Republican Elephant, 1874
Week of November 5
Particular national images resonate through the years, becoming iconic symbols with great meaning in popular culture...
The Great Lisbon Earthquake, 1755
Week of October 29
Some historians, theologians and insurance companies of the past attributed “natural disasters” to God’s control over His creation, “Acts of God,” but denied Him any role in the supposed life...
Sam Houston Becomes President of the Republic of Texas, 1836
Week of October 22
The colony and state of Virginia was the birthplace of nine Presidents. Seven were Tidewater or Piedmont Planters, one was a...
Birth of Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, October 15, 1844
Week of October 15
According to Christian historian Paul Johnson, the ideas of four men shaped the intellectual world of the 20th, and now 21st, centuries:...
Alexander the Great and the Battle of Guagamela, 331 BC
Week of October 1
God ceased direct and written revelation in the era between the Old Testament and the New Testament, but He did not stop His providential....
The Birth of Chief Justice John Marshall, 1755
Week of September 24
John Marshall was one of the most important men of his age or any age: soldier, lawyer, statesman, diplomat, congressman, secretary of state, and...
The Council of Trent Moved to Bologna, 1549
Week of September 17
The German Augustinian friar and theologian Martin Luther, upset over the sale of indulgences, tacked his 95 complaints against the Catholic Church on...
The Battle of Brandywine, 1777
Week of September 10
The American cause in the War for Independence had gotten a life-saving boost in the victories George Washington scored over the British army in the Christmas surprise at Trenton and the...
The “Munich Massacre” at the Olympics, 1972
Week of September 3
Islamic countries, especially the Arab nations, have never accepted the State of Israel as a legitimate member of the family of nations. Israel has...
Whitman Mission Established, 1846
Week of August 27
Every state is allowed to install two memorial state representative images in Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol. In 1953 the State of Washington set up a beautiful bronze statue of a frontiersman in...
First Africans Brought to Jamestown in Virginia, 1619
Week of August 20
On August 18, 2019, reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times Magazine launched a revolutionary program to rewrite American...
Great Britain Grants India and Pakistan Independence, 1947
Week of August 13
The Mughal Empire ruled most of the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, and modern Pakistan and Bangladesh for about 200 years. In...
Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588
Week of August 6
Adults and children alike complain that history teachers force students to memorize dates and the events therein associated, which “just turn the pupils away from learning history.” They assume...
Chief Stand Watie Surrenders Last CSA Army, 1865
Week of June 18
The Cherokee Nation is the largest Native American tribe. They lived for most of their known history in the Western Carolinas, North Georgia, Alabama,...
Republican Party Holds First Convention, 1856
Week of June 11
The Presidency of Andrew Jackson changed the direction of American history in significant ways, so much so that his ascendancy has been called...
Ted Roosevelt Lands on Utah Beach on D-Day, 1944
Week of June 4
In past centuries, fathers wanted their sons to succeed and prosper. They hoped that their children would exceed their own accomplishments and...
Britain Annexes Orange Free State, 1900
Week of May 28
During the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), England’s control of the world’s land surface equaled between 20-25%, and, by 1919, British soldiers had accumulatively through history...
Captain Christopher Newport Founds Jamestown, Virginia Colony, 1607
Week of May 21
On May 24, 1607, Captain Christopher Newport sailed his ship the Susan Constant and her companion vessels, the Godspeed...
The Death of Henry Flagler, 1913
Week of May 14
One hundred ten years ago Henry Flagler died. Outside of Florida, few Americans recognize his name. In his own day he was often mentioned in the same breath with John D. Rockefeller, Andrew...
A Deal Is Struck for the Louisiana Purchase, 1803
Week of April 30
Two hundred twenty years ago this week the French flag was lowered and replaced by an American flag in New Orleans, the...
ANZACs Land at Gallipoli, 1915
Week of April 23
The military campaign in Gallipoli, in 1915, is little known or remembered in the United States. The U.S. did not join the 1914-1918 War until two years later, and the geographical area of the campaign...
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 Delaware to Philadelphia, arriving just in...
The Battle of Fort 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 that ownership of the fort had defaulted...
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 both North and South...
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 “French Indo-China.”...
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 to apostolic Christianity...
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...
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...
Battle of Buena Vista, February 1847
Week of February 19
Following the successful fight for Texan independence from Mexico, certain U.S. congressmen and senators began lobbying for adding the Republic of Texas to the United...
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, 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...
Execution of Charles I, 1649
Week of January 29
Upon the death of Queen Elizabeth I, the Tudor line of the English monarchy came to an end, and the Stuart family of Scotland inherited the English throne; James VI, Elizabeth’s first cousin...