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Christian Calendar (Holidays), Christian Living, Devotional Literature, February Articles

ListenThe importance of Christian education for the perpetuation of the American Republican cannot be overstated! Following the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers sought to perpetuate the life of young America by ensuring that it rested upon a Christian foundation in the ensuing generations. The Ivy League arose well in advance of the Revolution and was one of the first formal attempts to enshrine the principles of Scripture in public life. In the mid-1820s, the American Sunday School Union arose as an additional means of guaranteeing that the Christian principles of the American...Read more... Read more... -->

American History, Christian Calendar (Holidays), Christian History, February Articles, Signers of Declaration of Independence

Listen February 28, 1781 Death of Signer, Richard Stockton Richard Stockton (October 1, 1730 – February 28, 1781) was an American lawyer, jurist, legislator, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Stockton was the brother-in-law of well known Founding Father, Dr. Benjamin...Read more... Read more... -->

American History, Christian Calendar (Holidays), Christian History, February Articles, Signers of Declaration of Independence

Listen February 26, 1813 Death of Signer, Robert Livingston Robert R(obert) Livingston (November 27, 1746 – February 26, 1813) was an American lawyer, politician, diplomat from New York, and a Founding Father of the United States. He was known as "The Chancellor", after the office he held for 25 years. He was a member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, although he was recalled by his state before he could sign the final version of the...Read more... Read more... -->

American History, Christian Calendar (Holidays), Christian History, February Articles, Signers of Declaration of Independence

Listen February 23, 1781 Death of Signer, George Taylor George Taylor (c. 1716 – February 23, 1781) was a Colonial ironmaster and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of...Read more... Read more... -->

American History, February Articles

Listen February Black History Month William C. Nell William Cooper Nell (December 16, 1816 – May 25, 1874) was an African-American author, abolitionist, civil servant, and publisher of Boston, Massachusetts. As a prodigious writer and publisher, Nell penned important works concerning the contributions of black soldiers in the War of Independence and War of 1812. Those works include, Services of Colored Americans in the Wars of 1776 and 1812 (1851) and The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution (1855), which were the first works of their kind concerning African Americans. George...Read more... Read more... -->