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Reflections on Daniel Boone, American Frontiersman, and John Filson, his First Biographer
John Filson, in his 1784 portrait of “The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon” appended to The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke, declared that “curiosity is natural to the soul of man.” With these words Filson sparked the beginning … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Biography, books, Natural History
Tagged american-frontier, book-review, books, daniel-boone, frontier, frontiersmen, history, travel
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Tecumseh: A Reflection
When I wish to find out about a person from the past, the first thing I look for, to wrap my mind around so that I feel like I might know this person, is an image, a portrait or photograph. … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Biography
Tagged brock-university, history, issac-brock, ontario, tecumseh
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Who Discovered America? If it wasn’t Columbus, if it wasn’t the Vikings, then who was it?
A historical investigator par excellence, Jeremy Belknap, who lived in late eighteenth-century New Hampshire, posed this question to his many readers in a two-volume work, the first of its kind in American publishing history, The American Biography. He began his … Continue reading
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Tagged Baal, Discoverers of America, Explorers, Fiction, history, Jeremy Belknap, Phoenicians
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Captain John Smith was an Anglican Missionary—-WHAT?!
Captain John Smith was arguably the greatest of the English explorers, discoverers, and colonists of America. He was as well the first American historian. His human and natural histories include: A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Noate … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Biography, books, Christianity, Great Commission
Tagged anglicanism, Christianity, Great Commission, history, John Smith, Missionaries
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Donald Trump and American Politics
For two hundred and thirty-seven years, American politics has been vitriolic, even more so in the twenty-first century, where anybody anytime anywhere can post or speak their mind in online media, television, the news, &c, making nonsensical accusations of misogyny, … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Biography, Government
Tagged donald-trump, history, news, political-parties, Politics, social-media, vitriol
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Christian Missionaries–Books to Read
I am a historian, and one of my favorite topics to write on is the Christian missionary experience in America.I have just reissued on Amazon a book about Baptist missionaries in America, particularly in Oklahoma: “Marking the Jesus Road: Bacone … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Biography, books, Christianity, Great Commission
Tagged Bacone College, bible, books, catholics, Christianity, faith, history, Jesus, Missionaries, Protestants
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Patrick Hurley, Secretary of War under Hoover, and the Jesus Road
Patrick Hurley was soldier during World War, Secretary of War during the Hoover administration, a lawyer for the Choctaw people, a diplomat for Franklin Roosevelt during World War II, and a philanthropist. One of the special objects of his philanthropy … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Biography, books, Christianity, Great Commission
Tagged American Indians, Bacone College, books, Higher Education, history, Missionaries
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Pious Scientists in the Late Middle Ages
Piety, the awe and respect for God and His Creation, drove philosophers and scientists throughout the Christian era beginning during the Roman Empire and continuing through the European Middle Ages—and beyond. Christian philosopher-scientists relied heavily on their Greek and Roman … Continue reading
Posted in books, Christianity, European history, History of Science
Tagged anselm, Christianity, god, history, philosophy, Piety, Religion, Science, thomas-aquinas
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Early Medieval Pious Scientists
The Fall of Rome had a profound effect on learning and knowledge. After the fifth century A.D. those who were concerned with philosophy, which at this time included science, scrambled to keep track of the great books of the Greco-Roman … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, European history, History of Science
Tagged aristotle, boetius, Christianity, history, isidore-of-seville, john-scotus-eriugena, middle-ages, philosophy, Piety, plato, Science
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Philo Judaeus the Pious Scientist
Ancient thinkers–philosophers and scientists–of the Mediterranean world knew that wisdom is a universal that transcends individual knowing, an awareness of truth that transcends the individual existence of each person. The Old Testament and New Testament imply that the Creation has … Continue reading
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Tagged aristotle, Christianity, history, philosophy, Piety, Religion
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The American Plutarch 