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A Story of Epic Proportions: What makes a Poem an Epic? (LP)
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)
1948 President Harry S. Truman signed into law the European Recovery Program (known as the Marshall Plan)
Origins of the Cold War Unit (LP)
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1928 Born—Maya Angelou
Introducing Metaphors Through Poetry (LP)
Academy of American Poets (W)
1968—Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. King's Dream (LP)
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1614 John Rolfe and Pocahontas married in the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia
Images of the New World (LP)
1856 Born—Booker T. Washington
African-American Soldiers After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed? (LP)
American Studies at University of Virginia (W)
Children's Day—S. Korea & Japan
Common Visions, Common Voices (LP)
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1806 Born—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Victorian Web (W)
1917 US declares war on Germany, enters World War I
Introduction to Modernist Poetry (LP)
Poetry of The Great War: 'From Darkness to Light'? (LP)
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1770 Born—William Wordsworth
Romantic Circles (W)
1917 Born—Billie Holiday
Jazz and World War II: A Rally to Resistance, A Catalyst for Victory (LP)
Learning the Blues (LP)
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1935—Works Progress Administration approved by Congress
Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs (LP)
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1812 Born—Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire: The Poet of Sickness and Evil (LP)
Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes:
Poems for a Democracy (LP)
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1925—F Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby
The “Secret Society” and FitzGerald's The Great Gatsby (LP)
1933 - Civilian Conservation Corp established by FDR
African-Americans and the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps
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1968—Civil Rights Act of 1968
We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement (W)
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1633 Galileo Galilei was put on trial by the Inquisition
Galileo and the Inevitability of Ideas (LP)
1861—Civil War begins at Fort Sumter in Charleston, SC
Before Brother Fought Brother: Life in the North and South 1847-1861 (LP)
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1743 Born—Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson vs. Franklin: Renaissance Men (LP)
Jefferson vs. Franklin: Revolutionary Philosophers (LP)
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President Lincoln is shot.
HarpWeek (W)
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1843 Born—Henry James
American Collection: An Educator's Site (W)
Born 1452—Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci: Creative Genius (LP)
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The Poet's Voice:
Langston Hughes and You (LP)
1947 The term "Cold War" is coined by Bernard Baruch
The Origins of the Cold War (LP)
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1790—Benjamin Franklin, dies at 84
Jefferson vs. Franklin: Renaissance Men (LP)
1897 Thornton Wilder born
Thorton Wilder's Our Town: the Reader as Writer
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1775—Paul Revere & William Dawes warn "the British are coming!"
Not Only Paul Revere: Other Riders of the American Revolution (LP)
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1775—Battle of Lexington & Concord—American Revolution
Colonial Broadsides and the American Revolution (LP)
1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Holocaust and Resistance (LP)
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1841 First detective story published by Edgar Allen Poe "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
Lesson: Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce and the Unreliable Narrator (LP)
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1816 Born—Charlotte Bronte
Victorian Web (W)
753 B.C. Rome Founded
Virtual Rome (W)
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1370—Bastille begins being built in Paris France
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution (W)
1451 Born—Isabella I of Castile, Queen of Spain (1479-1504), patron of Columbus
Other Worlds: The Voyages of Columbus (LP)
1873 Writer Ellen Glasgow is born
Documenting the American South
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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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1800 Library of Congress established
Library of Congress(W)
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1925 Born—Flannery O'Connor
“Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find': Who's the Real Misfit?” (LP)
Documenting the American South (W)
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1607—Jamestown colonists land at Cape Henry VA
Virtual Jamestown (W)
Jamestown Changes (LP)
1918 Born—Ella Fitzgerald, "first lady of song"
Jazz and World War II: A Rally to Resistance, A Catalyst for Victory (LP)
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1791 Born—Samuel Morse, inventor of the first operational telegraph system.
The National Gallery of Art (W)
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1926 Born—Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird author
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (LP)
1758 James Monroe born
The Monroe Doctrine: Origins & Early American Foreign Policy (L)
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1899 Born—Duke Ellington
JAM: Jazz Appreciation Month (W)
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1975—End of Vietnam War
Eyewitness to History (LP)
1789 George Washington was sworn in as the first President of the United States of America
George Washington: The Precedent President (LP)
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