July 6: Ashbel Green
We could talk about the usual biographical information, like the fact that Ashbel Green was born on July 6, 1762, in Hanover, Morris county, New Jersey. Or that Green, at…
July 5: Arthur J. Dieffenbacher
A Casualty of D-Day The following account comes from THE INDEPENDENT BOARD BULLETIN, Vol. 10, no. 10 (October 1944): 4-7. This was (and is) the newsletter of the Independent Board for…
July 4: John Breckinridge
Lord, Give Us Giants! He was one of those men whom you wish had written more. His son, R. J. Breckinridge, was a prolific writer, but John only left us…
July 3: Bolters Reply to Presbytery
Today's post provides a good example of press coverage of the modernist controversy during the 1930s. On July 3d, 1936, the following news item appeared in the Wilmington, Delaware newspaper.…
July 2: An Important Lecture
It was on this day, July 2d, in 1824, that the Rev. Dr. Samuel Miller delivered what was termed an Introductory Lecture, at the opening summer session of the Princeton…