How much do you know about Christmas—about its origins and its many beloved traditions? Do you know where the idea of stocking-stuffers comes from? Or how…

After traitor Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point was thwarted, the Continental Congress proclaimed a Day of Thanksgiving, October 18, 1780: "In the late remarkable interposition of His wat

President Franklin Roosevelt stated JUNE 6, 1944: "My fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our alli

George Washington's tomb is engraved with the Scripture, John 11:25, where Jesus told Martha: "I am the Resurrection and the Life; sayeth the Lord. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead yet sh

Ronald Reagan stated 1961: "In this country of ours took place THE GREATEST REVOLUTION that has ever taken place IN THE WORLD'S HISTORY -- Every other revolution simply exchanged one set of rulers

Ronald Reagan stated 1961: "In this country of ours took place THE GREATEST REVOLUTION that has ever taken place IN THE WORLD'S HISTORY -- Every other revolution simply exchanged one set of rulers

Newton stated (Isaaci Newtoni Opera quae exstant omina, London: Joannes Nichols, 1782): "So then gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the Divine Power it could never put them into s

Governor Bradford wrote: "Squanto was a native of these parts, and had been one of the few survivors of the plague hereabouts. He was carried away with others by one Hunt, a captain of a ship, wh

Robert Cottrol, professor of law at George Washington University, stated: “Some of the earliest gun control legislation was in fact being aimed directly at black people ... After the Civil War the so

John Quincy Adams wrote in an Executive Order, July 11, 1826: "A coincidence ... so wonderful gives confidence ... that the patriotic efforts of these ... men were Heaven directed, and furnishes a

Presidents' Day is actually Washington's birthday, recognized by an Act of Congress for government offices in Washington, D.C., in 1879, and for all federal offices in 1885. 

Reagan warned of socialism being instituted through a medical healthcare crisis: "One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism is medicine. It is easy to disguise a medical program

Tocqueville: "Thus, the ruling power, having taken each citizen one by one into its powerful grasp ... spreads its arms over the whole of ... social life with a network of petty, complicated, detaile

Eric Metaxas wrote further: "So it was ... on July 26, 1833, that the Emancipation Act passed its third reading in the House of Commons, ensuring the end of slavery in the British Empire, some t

Historians Plutarch and Beloch purport that Pericles deliberately let Athens be pulled into a needless Peloponnesian War with Sparta in order to divert criticism away from himself.

Beginning in 1740, George Whitefield preached seven times in America. He spread the Great Awakening Revival, which helped unite the Colonies prior to the Revolutionary War.

Irving Berlin's inspiring verse: "God Bless America, Land that I Love, Stand Beside Her, and Guide Her, Through the Night, with the Light From Above."

After traitor Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point was thwarted, the Continental Congress proclaimed a Day of Thanksgiving, October 18, 1780: "In the late remarkable interposition of His wat

The Essex Journal stated of Nathan Hale, February 13, 1777: "At the gallows, he made a sensible and spirited speech; among other things, told them they were shedding the blood of the innocent, and

Joseph Story was Harvard's first Dane Professor of Law. He stated in a speech at Harvard in 1829: "There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as l

Addressing the Daughters of the American Revolution, April 19, 1926, President Calvin Coolidge stated: "The importance of women in the working out the destiny of mankind ... As there were fathers

To celebrate this victory of Republican abolition policies over the Democrat pro-slavery policies is "Juneteenth," the day Union Major General Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3 from his he

On CHRISTMAS, DECEMBER 24, 1946, President Truman stated: "Our ... hopes of future years turn to a little town in the hills of Judea where on a winter's night two thousand years ago the prophecy of

Kennedy stated January 17, 1963: "Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased - not

When P.T. Barnum's show began traveling, D.L. Moody, with help from banker J.P. Morgan and railroad industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt, transformed the Great Roman Hippodrome into a revival tabernacle

Webster's original 1828 American Dictionary utilized King James Bible verses within the definitions. In fact, it contained the greatest number of Biblical definitions given of any reference volume.

In his thirty years of ministry, Saint Patrick is credited with baptizing 120,000 people and founding 300 churches.

NASA Goddard programmer Ernest T. Wright mapped the paths of every total solar eclipse for the past 5,000 years, 11,898 of them, and found that for a total solar eclipse to cross the same place twice

As Rome exhibited weakness, it experienced terrorist attacks. Attila the Hun, "The Scourge of God," attacked with an unstoppable army of a half-million warriors.

In 17th century England, John Bunyan was in a farm house near Bedford, England, when it was raided by the police. He was bound, arrested, and dragged away, all because he was having an unauthorized r

Fifteen percent of the world’s maritime traffic travels this route, but as the Yemen Houthis attack oil tankers, the only alternative route is to sail around South Africa’s Cape of Good Hope adding an

"When the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate ... they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people

Coolidge exposed the deep-state bureaucracy: "No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline."

"As at no other time in history, the 'culture of death' has assumed a social and institutional form of legality to justify the most horrible crimes against humanity"

Bradford described individual capitalism: "I answer, seeing that all men have this failing in them, that God in His wisdom saw that another plan of life was fitter for them ... So they began to consid

Pilgrim Edward Winslow recorded in Mourt's Relation that in the Fall of 1621: "God be praised we had a good increase ... Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so w

On the Jewish Feast of Passover, the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan, around 30-33 AD, Jesus was crucified as the "Lamb of God." The Apostle Paul wrote: "For even Christ our passover is sacr