April 2003

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Writing Poetry Like the Pros (LP)

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1834 Born—Frederic-Auguste Bertholdi, Statue of Liberty sculptor
The Statue of Liberty: The Meaning and Use of a National Symbol (LP)

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1783 Born—Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (LP)

Chaucer's
Wife of Bath (LP)

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1968—Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. King's Dream (LP)

Let Freedom Ring: The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (LP)

1928 Born—Maya Angelou
Academy of American Poets (W)

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1856 Born—Booker T. Washington
American Studies at University of Virginia (W)

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1770 Born—William Wordsworth
Romantic Circles (W)

1917 Born—Billie Holiday
Learning the Blues (LP)

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1935—Works Progress Administration approved by Congress
Slave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources (LP)

Poems That Tell a Story:
Robert Frost (LP)

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Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes:
Poems for a Democracy (LP)

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1925—F Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary (W)

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1814 1st abdication of Napoleon— exiled to Elba
Napoleon (W)

1968—Civil Rights Act of 1968
We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement (W)

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1861—Civil War begins at Fort Sumter in Charleston, SC
Crisis at Fort Sumter (W)

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1743 Born—Thomas Jefferson
Declare the Causes: The Declaration of Independence (LP)

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1843 Born—Henry James
American Collection: An Educator's Site (W)

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The Poet's Voice:
Langston Hughes and You (LP)

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Japanese Poetry:
Tanka? You're Welcome! (LP)

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Charles Baudelaire:
The Poet of Sickness and Evil (LP)

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The World of Haiku (LP)

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1816 Born—Charlotte Bronte
Victorian Web (W)

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Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet (LP)

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1564 Born—William Shakespeare

1616 Died—William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and the "Dagger of the Mind" (LP)

Shakespeare's Macbeth:
Fear and the Motives of Evil (LP)

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1905 Born—Robert Penn Warren
Modern American Poetry (W)

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1925 Born—Flannery O'Connor
Documenting the American South (W)

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Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal (LP)

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1926—Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird author
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (LP)

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1899 Born—Duke Ellington
Jazz: A Ken Burns Film (W)

Harlem: 1910-1940 (W)

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1975—End of Vietnam War
Eyewitness to History  (LP)