History Matters

Listen to this article:Your browser does not support the audio element.0:000:00Who organized the first women’s political demonstration before the American Revolution started? The demonstration was called the “Edenton Tea Party”, and her name was Penelope Barker. She was a tough, hard-working Patriot living in North Carolina. She was born on […]

Listen to this article:Your browser does not support the audio element.0:000:00The British marched into Concord, Massachusetts, with Fifes and Drums playing martial tunes. The red-coated soldiers marching in step were prepared and determined to do their duty. They had fired their muskets in Lexington, killing 8 and wounding 9 of […]

Listen to this article:Your browser does not support the audio element.0:000:00 Last week, we left Paul Revere and William Dawes standing in Lexington, Massachusetts, watching the British Redcoats march toward the town. Dr. Samuel Prescott had continued the ride to Concord to warn the patriots of the British approach to […]

Listen to this article:Your browser does not support the audio element.0:000:00 Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive who remembers that famous day and year. “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry […]

On Being Brought from Africa to America ‘Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there’s a God, that there’s a Savior too: Once I redemption neither sought nor knew. Some view our sable race with scornful eye, “Their colour is a diabolic […]

Listen to this article:Your browser does not support the audio element.0:000:00A little after midnight on February 27, 1776, about 800 Loyalist men wearing their Scottish Tartans came through the swampy woods clutching their weapons. The Bagpipes were playing highlander music to encourage the men as they moved forward toward the […]