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After fighting a revolution, America thought it was finished contending with Britain, until the war of 1812 once again placed the patriots in peril. With the capitol in ashes, the arm of God was once again needed to save the infant nation from ruin. Learn the events that produced the words, "The land of the free and the home of the brave."

Resources:

What So Proudly We Hailed: Francis Scott Key, A Life by Marc Leepson

Gods Courageous Composer Francis Scott Key by David Collins

https://afb.org/HelenKellerArchive?a=p&p=helenkellerdocumentdisplay&d=A-HK01-07-B140-F01-016&

https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/fort-mchenry-and-the-war-of-1812

https://maryland1812.com/francis-scott-keys-tells-a-story-of-september-1814/

https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/artwork/dolley-madison-comes-to-the-rescue

https://constitutioncenter.org/amp/blog/on-this-day-the-british-set-fire-to-washington-d-c

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zDKfw8nysLA&pp=ygUbd2FsbCBidWlsZGVycyBzdGFyIHNwYW5nbGVk

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qn-Lgq1Btw&t=275s&pp=ygUbd2FsbCBidWlsZGVycyBzdGFyIHNwYW5nbGVk

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In a time when faith is largely ridiculed and seen as foolish, we often forget that some of the most brilliant people in history had a firm belief in a Divine Creator. This episode discusses a contemporary of Charles Darwin whose name has been lost to the world because he stayed true to his beliefs. The great natural scientist’s life holds a much needed lesson for our day.

Resources:

Agassiz’s thoughts on the origin of species:

https://wwnorton.com/college/history/archive/resources/documents/ch21_04.htm#:~:text=The%20foremost%20critic%20of%20Darwinism,challenge%20to%20Darwin's%20new%20thesis


https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6078/pg6078-images.html

https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/poems-of-places-an-anthology-in-31-volumes/the-prayer-of-agassiz-3/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/18118

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_40/April_1892/Agassiz_at_Penikese

http://kids.ochristian.com/Biographies-for-Children/Louis-Agassiz.shtml

https://www.biblestudytools.com/hebrews/11-3-compare.html#google_vignette

The Other Eminent Men of Wilford Woodruff by: Vicki Jo Anderson

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This episode explores the Christian roots of America's universities and introduces you to an early educator, who crossed the ocean to play a critical role in the American Revolution. In a time when truth is subjective and morality is outdated, we need more than ever to look to the past to discover how education shapes a society.

Resources:

John Witherspoon and the issue of slavery:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00405736231207548


John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic, by Jeffery H. Morrison

John Witherspoon by Jr. David Walker Woods

http://eada.lib.umd.edu/text-entries/a-poem-on-the-rising-glory-of-america/

https://www.dsdi1776.com/signer/john-witherspoon/

https://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/1776-witherspoon-dominion-of-providence-over-the-passions-of-men-sermon#

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00405736231207548

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevin-deyoung/the-dominion-of-providence/?amp

https://rodmartin.org/dominion-providence-passions-men/

https://www.acton.org/religion-liberty/volume-34-number-1/john-witherspoon-educating-liberty

https://paw.princeton.edu/article/continental-congress-nassau-hall

http://www.rampantscotland.com/famous/blfamwitherspoon.htm

https://jwc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Founding-Father-John-Witherspoon.pdf

https://blog.historicenvironment.scot/2024/02/john-witherspoon/

https://www.maggiecraig.co.uk/2015/04/23/escape-from-the-jacobites-at-doune-cast

https://christianheritagefellowship.com/the-christian-founding-of-harvard/

https://www.liberty.edu/journal/article/christianity-and-the-american-university/#:~:text=American%20higher%20education%20rests%20upon,Christ%2C%20and%20a%20biblical%20worldview.

https://www.ulpanor.com/2021/02/26/the-yale-connection/

https://newcriterion.com/article/the-forgotten-founder-john-witherspoon/#:~:text=Under%20With