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Catholic Textbook Project
Aug 21, 20234 min read
Henry Tudor’s Army Ends the Wars of the Roses: August 22, 1485
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part I. When only an infant, King Henry VI of England had inherited England and...
Catholic Textbook Project
Aug 14, 20233 min read
Hernán Cortés Conquers Mexico: August 13, 1521
This text comes from our book, All Ye Lands. The news of Cortés’s landing at Vera Cruz filled Montezuma with fear—could the Spaniard be...
Catholic Textbook Project
Aug 7, 20233 min read
An English Pirate Steals Silver for Queen Elizabeth I: August 9, 1573
This text comes from our book, From Sea to Shining Sea. It was a warm, muggy night. Guided by the lights of the town, the men quietly...
Catholic Textbook Project
Jul 31, 20234 min read
The First Indian Saint in the Americas Is Canonized: July 31, 2002
This text comes from our book, From Sea to Shining Sea. Meanwhile, Juan Diego had climbed the hill of Tepeyac. “Return here tomorrow,”...
Catholic Textbook Project
Jul 24, 20233 min read
Chief Pontiac Signs Peace Treaty with British at Oswego, New York: July 25, 1766
This text comes from our book, From Sea to Shining Sea. In July 1759, France’s old enemy, the Iroquois Indians, joined the British in...
Catholic Textbook Project
Jul 17, 20233 min read
July 17th, 1918 – Vladimir Lenin Orders the Execution of Tsar Nicolas II and His Family
This text comes from our book, All Ye Lands. To weaken Russia, the Germans urged the soviet revolutionaries to take up arms against the...
Catholic Textbook Project
Jul 10, 20233 min read
The Northwest Ordinance Is Adopted by Congress: July 13, 1787
This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise. The states however did cooperate with the national government in the matter of...
Catholic Textbook Project
Jul 3, 20233 min read
Independence Day in Sonoma: July 4, 1846
This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise. Californio factions could not bury their differences even to face a common foe....
Catholic Textbook Project
Jun 26, 20232 min read
Francisco Pizzaro Is Assassinated: June 26, 1541
This text comes from our book, All Ye Lands. Cortés’s conquest of the mighty Aztec kingdom inspired another Spanish conquistador to find...
Catholic Textbook Project
Jun 19, 20234 min read
Aztecs Attack the Spaniards on La Noche Triste (The Night of Sorrows): June 20, 1520
This text comes from our book, From Sea to Shining Sea. Fear had filled the heart of the Aztec emperor Montezuma when he heard of the...
Catholic Textbook Project
Jun 12, 20232 min read
The First Article of the Virginia Bill of Rights Is Adopted by the Old Dominion: June 12, 1776
This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise. Between mid-May and early June 1776, the southern colonies, from Georgia to...
Catholic Textbook Project
Jun 5, 20233 min read
The 19th Amendment Is Passed by the United States Congress: June 4, 1919
This text comes from our book, The American Venture. Since at least the 1850s, women associated with the Temperance movement had been...
Catholic Textbook Project
May 29, 20232 min read
Major George Washington Attacks the French Fort Duquesne in the Ohio Valley: May 28, 1754
This text comes from our book, From Sea to Shining Sea. English colonists, especially in Virginia, wanted to be able to cross the...
Catholic Textbook Project
May 16, 20233 min read
The Constitutional Convention Opens: May 25, 1787
This text comes from our book, The American Venture. “How are you today, my dear General!” With these words, Gouverneur Morris greeted...
Catholic Textbook Project
May 15, 20232 min read
Segregated Schools Ruled Unconstitutional: May 17, 1954
This text comes from our book, The American Venture. One of the most significant acts of Eisenhower’s presidency was his appointment of...
Catholic Textbook Project
May 8, 20233 min read
German Government Surrenders to the Allies: May 7, 1945
This text comes from our book, The American Venture. Though the Allies had driven the Germans from France, they bogged down along the...
Christopher Zehnder
Apr 14, 20233 min read
A Brave Bishop Leaves Prison: April 29, 1839
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. It was silent night, November 20, 1837. By order...
Christopher Zehnder
Apr 11, 20234 min read
Parliament Emancipates Catholics:April 13, 1829
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. Conditions did not improve when George IV became...
Christopher Zehnder
Apr 1, 20235 min read
Congress Declares War “for Democracy”: April 6, 1917
From our text, Lands of Hope and Promise, A History of North America. By early 1917, the British blockade of Germany was beginning to...
Christopher Zehnder
Mar 24, 20233 min read
Death of a Great Romantic: March 26, 1827
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. … [T]hough Romanticism started as a literary...
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