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The Black Robe Regiment: How a Group of Patriots Founded America

By Rick Chromey | November 10, 2022 |

TweetShareShareThey were called the “Black Robe Regiment.” A group of patriots who served in Congress, presided over influential American schools, led troops in the Revolutionary War, signed the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights and other important founding documents. Their names? JOHN WITHERSPOON (President of Princeton) JOHN P. MUHLENBERG (Revolutionary War General) FREDERICK A. MUHLENBERG…

Rev. Timothy Dwight: How the President of Yale Indicted the French Revolution

By Rick Chromey | October 28, 2022 |

TweetShareShareOn July 4, 1798, TIMOTHY DWIGHT, the President of Yale College gave an address titled “The Duty of Americans at the Present Crisis.” It was a stinging indictment upon the French Revolution and their enlightened, secular culture. Dwight particularly noted how the infidel Voltaire had orchestrated the plan to convert Christian France into a secular…