The name Harriet Beecher Stowe brings to mind an influential book in American history, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Whether President Lincoln’s comment when meeting the author is true or apocryphal, “You are the little lady...
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A Year in Greenville, South Carolina, 1893
Several years ago I read John C. Waugh’s The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox, 1994, and then at the time of the Y2K event—the change of millennium from 1999 to 2000 A.D.—I read two historical books making...
Resource for Old Church Photographs
The Internet provides an abundance of information and materials for use, but some sites are more reliable for information than others. One of the sources for dependable, primary source information is the Library of...
John Gloucester, Freedom for Ministry
Philadelphia was a hub of activity when Archibald Alexander arrived in May 1807. He was relocating from his home state of Virginia to accept a call to the Third Presbyterian Church (Old Pine Street) from which after a...
Joseph Clark, The Carpenter’s Carpenter
In 1800, Philadelphia was the seat of the U. S. Government, but that was about to change. On May 15, President John Adams sent a brief letter to federal department heads instructing them to commence relocation of their...
Thanksgiving, Presbyterians, George Washington, & Constitutions
Four-hundred years after the Pilgrims celebrated God’s preservation of their lives through a difficult winter and his gracious gift of an abundant harvest in the spring of 1621, the United States will have its annual...