Category: American History/ Heritage
Little Known Founder From South Carolina
Stephen Hopkins
A founding father with whom I was unfamiliar:
Did You Know These Things About Thomas Jefferson?
JD On Gratitude
He hit several home runs with this speech: VANCE: "You cannot swap 10 million people from anywhere in the world and expect America to remain unchanged. You cannot export the Constitution to some random country and expect the same kind of government. Our citizens are not interchangeable cogs in the […]
The Four References To God In The Declaration of Independence
America’s Christian Identity
Jon Harris gives a great talk (Session #6) in which he discusses America’s Christian identity at the founding, and argues we should restore that: Christianity & the Founding Session 6: A Protestant Federation – @jonharris1989 pic.twitter.com/gAGx0VoyWF — Truthscript (@Truth_Script) May 19, 2025
The Baptists In America’s Founding
This is a great talk. Watch it. I won’t attempt to summarize; but a couple of interesting points have regional significance. He speaks of the intense persecution faced by early Virginia Baptists that helped lead to religious liberty being incorporated into the Constitution; and to the eventual phasing out of […]
The Beginnings of Religious Liberty
This is lecture #4 in the series, and gets down in the weeds a bit. But I found interesting the discussion of Samuel Davies that began around the 15:45 mark. He was most active in Hanover County, Virginia which sits in the northeastern part of the Richmond metro area. He […]
The Presbyterians’ Role In America’s Founding
The series continues with a discussion of the Presbyterians around the time of America’s founding. The discussion emphasizes educational efforts and institutions; and relates how these produced many of America’s early statesmen and leaders. Of most interest to those of us in the South, a discussion begins around the 20:00 […]