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1926—Carter Woodson initiates "Negro History Week"
Explore DC (W)
2003 Chinese New Year—Year of the Ram
Animals of the Chinese Zodiac (LP)
Lions, Dragons, and Nian: Animals of the Chinese New Year (LP)
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
Attitudes Toward Emancipation (LP)
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1822—Free American Blacks Settle Liberia
Art & Life inAfrica Online (W)
1914 US congress approves Burnett anti-immigration law
Where I Come From (LP)
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1917—Mexican Constitution adopted
LANIC (W)
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1936 4th Winter Olympics open in Germany
US Holocaust Memorial Museum: Winter Games (W)
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1812 Born—British novelist Charles Dickens
Victorian Web (W)
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1887 Dawes Act passed—Indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship
Native Web (W)
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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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1945—FDR, Stalin, Churchill, sign Yalta Agreement
Avalon Project (W)
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1809 Born—Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president
The American President (W)
2003 Mardi Gras
The Meaning Behind the Mask (LP)
What Masks Reveal (LP)
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1689 British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights
The Constitutional Convention: What the Founding Fathers Said (LP)
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
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)
1898 Battleship Maine blows up; US begins Spanish-Cuban-American War
LANIC (W)
1483 Born—Babur, founder of Mughal dynasty, India
SARAI (W)
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2002 President's Day, US
I Do Solemnly Swear (LP)
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1688 Quakers, Mennonites first whites to protest slavery
Avalon Project (W)
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)
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1674 Peace of Westminster- NYC becomes English
What They Left Behind (LP)
1861 Russian Tzar Alexander II abolishes serfdom
Bucknell Russian Studies (W)
1919 WEB DuBois organizes first Pan-African Congress, Paris
Harlem 1900-1940 (W)
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1805 Born- Angelina Grimké, abolitionist & lawyer
Women and Social Movements in the US, 1775-1940 (W)
1962 John Glenn first American to orbit Earth
What Makes a Hero? (LP)
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1795 Freedom of worship was established in France under the constitution that came out of the French Revolution of 1789
American Association of Teachers of French (W)
1885 Washington Monument dedicated
Explore DC (W)
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1732 Born- George Washington, 1st US President
George Washington: The Living Symbol (LP)
George Washington Papers (W)
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Slave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources (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
Art & Life in Africa Online: Issues in African History (W)
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1807 Born—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet
American Verse Project (W)
Why Do We Remember Revere? Paul Revere's Ride in History and Literature (LP)
1902 Born—John Steinbeck, writer
Dust Bowl Days (LP)
1933 Nazis burn Reichstag
Holocaust and Resistance (LP)
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1879 "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation
New Perspectives on the West (W)
1940 Richard Wright's Native Son published
Modern American Poetry (W)
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