Mark Wolf

Red Skelton – What the Pledge means to ME Minute

Script:
In 1969, Red Skelton gave his personal view of the Pledge of Allegiance.
The statement he made at the end, I […]

Articles of Confederation : March 1, 1781
To all to whom these Presents shall come, we the undersigned Delegates of the States affixed to our Names send greeting.

Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union […]

Upon hearing of England’s rejection of the so-called Olive Branch Petition on this day in 1775, Abigail Adams writes to her husband, “Let us separate, they are unworthy to be our Brethren. Let us renounce them and […]

The below video is an moving history of our National Anthem. There are times in life where the task at hand is bigger that one mans life. And there is no more power or honor in that, than when one see’s the task, […]

On this day, November 11th, in 1778, Patriot Colonel Ichabod Alden refuses to believe intelligence about an approaching hostile force. As a result, a combined force of Loyalists and Native Americans, attacking in […]

On This Day, November 10th, 1775: During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress passes a resolution stating that “two Battalions of Marines be raised” for service as landing forces for the recently for […]

Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)

Of all the songs written during and about the War, perhaps none is as strongly identified with the Union cause today as Julia Ward Howe’s stirring “The Battle […]

At a time when the war on religion seems more open than ever. Where New York’s anti conservative Governor Andrew Cuomo says we should leave the the prayers for Texas shooting victims to Priests and Rabbi’s, East […]

According to Reuters Beijing correspondents – U.S. companies, from chip giant Qualcomm to aircraft maker Boeing, announced a slew of deals on Thursday during U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing. T […]

On this day, November 9th, in 1938, in an event that would foreshadow the Holocaust, German Nazis launch a campaign of terror against Jewish people and their homes and businesses in Germany and Austria. The […]

On this day, November 8th, in 1775, General George Washington seeks to resolve several problems facing the army: how to encourage experienced troops to enlist, how to assemble a capable officer corps and how to […]

On April 27th, 1961, Then President John F. Kennedy gave a speech to newspapers and publishers at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, in New York City

While this speech has been quoted out of context for a variety of […]

President John F. Kennedy
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City
April 27, 1961

Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen:

I appreciate very much your generous invitation to be here tonight.

You bear heavy […]

I first struggled with “under God” in my fourth-grade class in Westport, Connecticut. It was the spring of 1954, and Congress had voted, after some controversy, to insert the phrase into the Pledge of All […]

The Pledge of Allegiance

Thirty-one words which affirm the values and freedom that the American flag represents are recited while facing the flag as a pledge of Americans’ loyalty to their country. Th […]

The Pledge of Allegiance was written in August 1892 by the minister Francis Bellamy (1855-1931). It was originally published in The Youth’s Companion on September 8, 1892. Bellamy had hoped that the pledge would b […]

On this day, November 7th, in 1776, Congress chooses Richard Bache to succeed his father-in-law, Benjamin Franklin, as postmaster general. Franklin had sailed for France on behalf of the Continental Congress the […]

On this day, November 6th, in 1861, Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America. He ran without opposition, and the election simply confirmed the decision that had been made by the […]

NEW YORK POST & BBC REPORT

By Max Jaeger

November 5, 2017 | 2:13pm | Updated
As many as 27 people were killed and two dozen more injured when a gunman opened fire inside a crowded Texas church Sunday morn […]

Catholic dissident Guy Fawkes and 12 co-conspirators spent months planning to blow up King James I of England during the opening of Parliament On This Day, November 5, 1605. But their assassination attempt was […]