100 Bible Verses That Made America

In 1534, explorer Jacques Cartier sails from France with two ships and 61 sailors on a mission.

John Winthrop, a noted English lawyer, joins 700 Puritans who leave the Isle of Wight aboard a fleet of four ships to sail to the New World.

The Rev. William Tennent Sr. leaves Ireland for America in 1716 and settles in Bucks County, Pa.

Bostonians learn that a French fleet plans to attack their city and ravage New England.

Strife between France and England triggers the Colonial French and Indian War in the mid-1700s.

Robert Morgan explains the story of Patrick Henry, who was a natural orator.

The story of John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1746 and became a Lutheran pastor in Virginia in 1772.

The story of Samuel Webster, who was a minister for nearly 55 years until dying at age 78 in 1796.

How Elizabethtown, Tenn., played a part in winning the Revolutionary War.

Exploring the genesis of the Second Great Awakening in America.

At the height of the Revolutionary War, Jedidiah Morse enrolls at Yale and soon feels a sense of his need for Christ.

Founding father Alexander Hamilton is mortally wounded by Vice President Aaron Burr in a duel in 1804.

The Cane Ridge Revival is started by Presbyterian Barton Stone, but its combustion fires up Methodists, whose circuit riders tackles the frontier -- Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois and points beyond.

The life of Dr. William Holmes McGuffey, who was born in 1800 in Pennsylvania, grew up in Ohio and had a remarkable ability to memorize scripture.

Robert Morgan asserts that no one in American history can match the résumé of John Quincy Adams, who served in the government of George Washington and in Congress with Abraham Lincoln.

The story of former slave Harriet Tubman and how she guided others to freedom.

President Abraham Lincoln's staff brings him a draft of the Emancipation Proclamation on New Year's Day in 1863.

Born in Kentucky, Abraham Lincoln rejects frontier religion and the faith of his parents.

Examining the famous Christmas Eve truce during World War I, when German and Allied soldiers paused on the Western Front to sing carols and exchange greetings in 1914.

Adolescent John Wanamaker, who became a notable merchant and U.S. postmaster general, makes a list of all the things he wants to be.

Circuit-riding evangelists of the 1800s give way to the itinerant evangelists of the 1900s.

Allied forces invade German-occupied French Normandy on D-Day June 6, 1944, during World War II.

The story of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his preacher Billy Graham.

A story about the "conscience of an honest woman" and abortion.

President George H. W. Bush dies at age 94 in 2018.