250 Seconds

     For more than a hundred fifty years, school children have been introduced to birth of the United States by the thrilling verses penned by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “Listen my children and you shall here of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.  On the eighteenth of...

        Meeting in the Pennsylvania State House on June 14, 1775, just two months after the battles of Lexington and Concord, the Second Continental Congress voted to create a Continental Army to coordinate the military response of thirteen British colonies to...

      George Washington is often called the “Father of our country.” James Madison earned the title of “Father of the Constitution.” But is there such a person as the “First Founder?”  Is there someone who could actually deserve to be called the “First Founder”...

   One of our social media posts and 250 Seconds highlighted the incredible historic parallels between the Barons revolt against King John in 1215 which resulted in the Magna Carta and the rebellion against King George III in 1776 which culminated in the Declaration...

      If you were to type “probabilities of coincidences” in your search engine on your computer and sift through more than twenty pages of links to stories about “coincidences,” you won’t find a quick and clear definition.  The subject lines included titles such as...

Would it surprise you to know the origin of one of our most sacred national holidays is uncertain, including its birthplace and founder? For more than one hundred fifty years, Americans have set aside a day to remember our country’s fallen, those men and women who...

        In early September 1774, the First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia to consider a collective response to the British government’s coercive actions. A little more than a year and a half later, the Second Continental Congress would declare independence...

    The story is familiar to anyone who has studied history at even its most elementary level.  Its heroes and villains, struggles, strife, and victory over oppression are the stuff of which legends have been made, as well as innumerable books, films, artistic works...

In 1803, a young man ran away from his home in Salem, Massachusetts. He was only thirteen, but even at that young age the sea called to him as the mythical Sirens had lured the ancient mariners. Like other young men of his age, his life as a sailor began as a cabin...

If one vote made the Declaration of Independence possible, could a series of “one votes” have made statehood possible for California? Consider this. In 1842, Henry Shoemaker was a simple, hired farm worker who suddenly realized it was election day and he had promised...