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May 2003

 
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LEGEND:  (W) = Website Feature  (LP) = Lesson Plan (PA) = Picturing America (WTP) = We the People Bookshelf
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1
International Labor Day


Was There an Industrial Revolution? New Workplace, New Technology, New Consumers (LP)

2

Can You Haiku? (LP)

3
1947—Japan forms a constitutional democracy
Teaching (and Learning) about Japan (W)

4

5
Children's Day—S. Korea & Japan

Common Visions, Common Voices (LP)

6

Where I Come From (LP)

7
1812—Born—British poet Robert Browning
Victorian Web (W)

1913—Britain rejects woman's right to vote
Cultural Change (LP)

8

Jazz and World War II: A Rally to Resistance, A Catalyst for Victory (LP)

1945—V-E Day: WWII ends in Europe

Images at War (LP)

9

Unicorns, Dragons, and Other Magical Creatures (LP)

10
1968—Vietnam peace talks began between US & North Vietnam
Asia Source (W)

11
Mother's Day
Family and Friendship in Quilts (LP)

12

13
1607—104 male colonists arrive in Virginia, establish 1st permanent English settlement in New World

Jamestown Change (LP)

14
1804—Lewis & Clark set out for Pacific Coast

On This Day with Lewis and Clark (LP)

1935—The Philippines ratifies independence agreement
AskAsia: Phillipines (W)

15
1856 Born—L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Internet Public Library (W)

16
1868—President Andrew Johnson acquitted during Senate impeachment
American Memory: The Johnson Impeachment (W)

17
1954—Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Education - segregation in public schools is unconstitutional
National Park Service (W)

18

Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement (LP)

19

20

Aesop and Ananse: Animal Fables and Trickster Tales (LP)

21

22
1885—The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor from France

The Statue of Liberty: The Meaning and Use of a National Symbol (LP)

The Statue of Liberty: Bringing the 'New Colossus' to America (LP)

23

In My Other Life (LP)


Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: Oral and Literary Strategies (LP)

24

25
1803 Born—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Romantic Circles (W)

26
2003—Memorial Day observed
American Memory (W)

27

28
1851—Ohio Woman's Rights Convention met in Akron, OH
Women and Social Movements in the United States (W)

29
1453—Constantinople falls to Turks, ends Middle Ages
Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies (W)

30
1431—Joan of Arc burned at the stake
Internet Medieval Sourcebook: International Joan of Arc Society (W)

31
1819 Born—Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: the Sweep of the Universe (LP)