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Born 1902—Langston Hughes, African-American poet
The Poet's Voice: Langston Hughes and You (LP)
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2003 Groundhog Day
Helpful Animals and Compassionate Humans in Folklore (LP)
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1870 15th Amendment Black suffrage ratified
The Emancipation Proclamation: First Steps Toward Freedom (LP)
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1822 Free American Blacks Settle Liberia
Art & Life inAfrica Online (W)
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1917 Mexican Constitution adopted
LANIC (W)
2008 Mardi Gras
The Meaning Behind the Mask (LP)
What Masks Reveal (LP)
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1778 France recognizes the United States as a sovereign nation
“An Expression of the American Mind: Understanding the Declaration of Independence (LP)
1936 4th Winter Olympics open in Germany
US Holocaust Memorial Museum: Winter Games (W)
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1867 Birth of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sodbusters! (LP)
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1887 Dawes Act passed—Indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship
Native Web (W)
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1824 The House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes
The Election is In the House: Presidential Election of 1824 (LP)
1995 Bernard Harris first Black astronaut to take spacewalk, dedicates event to achievements of all African Americans
Dr. King's Dream (LP)
What Makes a Hero? (LP)
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1949 Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman opens on Broadway
Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's The Crucible (LP)
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1945 FDR, Stalin, Churchill, sign Yalta Agreement
Origins of the Cold War (LP)
1990—Nelson Mandela was released from jail after 27 years in prison
Martin Luther King and the Power of Non-Violence (LP)
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1809 Born—Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president
“A Word Fitly Spoken”: Abraham Lincoln on the American Union (LP)
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1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans
Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement (LP)
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1817 Born—Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist
From Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography (LP)
Perspectives on the Slave Narrative (LP)
Valentine's Day
A Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca (LP)
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1564 Born-Galileo Galilei, astronomer
Galileo and the Inevitability of Ideas (LP)
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1801—The House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, electing Jefferson President and Burr Vice President.
The Duel (W)
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1885 Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published
Mark Twain & American Humor (LP)
Critical Ways of Seeing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Context (LP)
2008 President's Day, US
Presidential Timeline of the 20th Century (W)
Presidential
Speeches (W)
The American
President (W)
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1674 Peace of Westminster- NYC becomes English
What They Left Behind (LP)
1919 WEB DuBois organizes first Pan-African Congress, Paris
Harlem 1900-1940 (LP)
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1805 Born—Angelina Grimké, abolitionist & lawyer
Before Brother Fought Brother: Women's Lives Before the Civil War (LP)
Women and Social Movements in the US, 1775-1940 (W)
1962 John Glenn first American to orbit Earth
What Makes a Hero?
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1965 Malcolm X was shot to death in New York City
Black Separatism or the Beloved Community? Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. (LP)
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1732 Born—George Washington, 1st US President
George Washington: The Living Symbol (LP)
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? (LP)
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1848 Died—John Quincy Adams 6th US President (1825-1829)
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Expansion of the Voting Base (LP)
1868 Born—WEB Du Bois, civil rights writer
African-American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd Divisions (LP)
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1803 Marbury v. Madison is decided
The Supreme Court: The Judicial Power of the United States (LP)
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1868 Andrew Johnson impeached for vioating Tenure of Office Act
Harpweek (W)
1987 US Supreme Court upholds affirmative action
Oyex, Oyez, Oyez: US vs. Paradise (W)
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1885 Berlin Act—European powers partition Africa
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Teaching Through the Novel (LP)
Art & Life in Africa Online: Issues in African History (W)
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1807 Born—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet
Why Do We Remember Revere? Paul Revere's Ride in History and Literature (LP)
Picturing America (W)
1902 Born—John Steinbeck, writer
Dust Bowl Days (LP)
1933 Nazis burn Reichstag
Holocaust and Resistance (LP)
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