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September 2008 |
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LEGEND: (W) = Website Feature (LP) = Lesson Plan |
National Hispanic Heritage Heritage Month
| 1 | Monday1939— Germany invades Poland, starting WWIITurning the Tide in Europe, 1942-1944 (LP) Holocaust and Resistance (LP) |
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| 2 | Tuesday1945—Japan SurrendersVictory in the Pacific, 1943-1945 (LP) |
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| 3 | Wednesday1783—Treaty of Paris signedThe American War for Independence: Ending the War, 1783 Voices of the American Revolution (LP) 1919—Wilson embarks on tour to promote League of Nations Debate in the U.S. over League of Nations (LP) 1777—Stars and Stripes flies for the first time Stars and Stripes Forever: Flag Facts for Flag Day (LP) |
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| 4 | Thursday |
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| 5 | Friday1774—First Continental Congress meets in PhiladelphiaConstitutional Convention of 1787 (LP) The Constitutional Convention: What the Founding Fathers Said (LP) |
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| 6 | SaturdayBorn 1860—Jane AddamsScripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film (LP) Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1820-1940 (W) |
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| 7 | Sunday |
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| 8 | Monday1883—Northern Pacific Railroad completedI Hear the Locomotives: The Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad (LP) |
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| 9 | Tuesday1776—Continental Congress changes name of United Colonies to United StatesLost Hero: The “To Do List” of the Continental Congress (LP) |
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| 10 | Wednesday1608—John Smith becomes President of the Jamestown ColonyJamestown at 400 Jamestown Changes (LP) |
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| 11 | ThursdayFederalist Debates (LP) |
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| 12 | Friday1940—Lascaux Cave Paintings discoveredCave Art:Discovering Prehistoric Humans Through Pictures (LP) The Caves of Lascaux (W) |
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| 13 | Saturday |
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| 14 | Sunday1814—Francis Scott Key writes words to Star-Spangled BannerOh, Say, Can You See What the Star-Spangled Banner Means? (LP) |
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| 15 | MondayBorn 1857—US President and Chief Justice William Howard TaftI Do Solemnly Swear: Presidential Inaugurations (LP) |
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| 16 | Tuesday1620—Mayflower departs England for Plymouth, MassachussetsPlymouth Colony: Archive Project (W) |
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| 17 | WednesdayThe Constitutional Convention of 1787 (LP) 1787—Final Draft of the Constitution signed. The Constitutional Convention (LP) The Preamble to the Constitution (LP) |
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| 18 | Thursday1793—Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol BuildingA Landmark Lesson (LP) 1895—Booker T. Washington delivers "Atlanta Compromise" address "The Rise of Jim Crow": Booker T. Washington (W) |
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| 19 | Friday1796—George Washington gives his farewell address as PresidentGeorge Washington: The Precedent President (LP) |
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| 20 | SaturdayBorn 1885—Ferdinand "Jellyroll" Morton, jazz musicianJazz and World War II (LP) Jazz (W) |
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| 21 | Sunday1784—The nation's first daily newspaper, the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser, began publication.Regulating Freedom of Speech (LP) |
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| 22 | Monday1862—Prelimary Emancipation Proclamation issued by LincolnEmancipation Proclamation: Freedom’s First Steps (LP) |
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| 23 | Tuesday1806—Lewis and Clark return from first trip to US Pacific CoastOn This Day With Lewis and Clark (LP) Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (W) |
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| 24 | Wednesday1957—Eisenhowever desegregates Little Rock schoolsOrdinary People, Ordinary Places (LP) Born 1896—F. Scott Fizgerald The "Secret Society" and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (LP) F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary (W) |
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| 25 | ThursdayBorn 1897—Novelist William FaulknerFaulkner’s As I Lay Dying: Form of a Funeral (LP) |
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| 26 | Friday1776—British troops occupy PhiladelphiaThe American War for Independence: The War in the North, 1775-1778 (LP) Born 1888 —Poet T.S. Eliot The Academy of American Poets (W) |
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| 27 | SaturdayBorn 1722— Samuel Adams, who helped plan Boston Tea PartyThe Boston Tea Party: Costume Optional? (LP) |
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| 28 | SundayNative American Cultures Across the U.S. (LP) |
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| 29 | Monday1789—United States military createdLost Hero: Starting a Government from Scratch (LP) |
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| 30 | Tuesday1965—The National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities are established by Lyndon JohnsonThe National Endowment for the Humanities (W) The National Endowment for the Arts (ALA) |
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