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December 2007

 
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LEGEND:  (W) = Website Feature  (LP) = Lesson Plan (PA) = Picturing America (WTP) = We the People Bookshelf
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1
1955—Rosa Parks arrested; initiated the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement (LP)

2
1823—President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine"
The President's Roles and Responsibilities: Understanding the President's Job (LP)

3
1847—Frederick Douglass and Martin R Delaney begin anti-slavery paper The North Star
From Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography (LP)

4
1942—FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration
Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs (LP)

5
1848—President Polk confirms California gold discovery
Gold Rush! California's Untold Stories (W)

6
1926, died—Claude Monet, impressionist painter.
An Introduction to the Relationship Between Composition and Content in the Visual Arts (LP)

7
1941—Japan attacks Pearl Harbor; U.S. declares war on Japan
The Road to Pearl Harbor

Turning the Tide in the Pacific, 1941-1943 (LP)

Victory in the Pacific, 1943-1945 (LP)

8
1765—Born, Eli Whitney inventor (Cotton Gin)
Factory vs. Plantation in the North and South (LP)

9
Born 1608—John Milton, poet/puritan
“World enough, and time”—Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress (LP)

10
1898—Spanish- American War ends.
Great American Speeches (W)

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1800—Washington, DC established as U.S. capital.
From the White House of Yesterday to the White House of Today (LP)

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1773—Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party: Costume Optional? (LP)

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1865—13th Amendment to U.S. Constitution ratified, abolishing slavery
Attitudes Toward Emancipation (LP)

19
1849— Born, Henry Clay Frick—built world's largest coke & steel operation
The Industrial Age in America: Sweatshops, Steel Mills, and Factories (LP)

Born 1790—Sir William Parry, Arctic explorer
Kennewick Man: Science and Sacred Rights (LP)

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1375—Died, Giovanni Boccaccio Italian poet
The Path of the Black Death (LP)

22
Born 1744—Abigail Adams, 2nd first lady (1797-1801)
Remember the Ladies: The First Ladies (LP)

23
1907—1st all-steel passenger railroad coach completed, Altoona PA
I Hear the Locomotives: The Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad (LP)

24
1814—Treaty of Ghent (end of the War of 1812) signed
President Madison's 1812 War Message (LP)

25
2006—Christmas
Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus
 (W)

1776—George Washington's army crosses the Delaware and defeats Hessians at Trenton
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? (LP)

26
1492—1st Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus
Other Worlds: The Voyage of Columbus (LP)

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2006—New Year's Eve
1879—Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp
Thomas Edison’s Inventions in the 1900s and Today: From “New” to You! (LP)