June 2007

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1924—Indian Citizenship Act:
Not 'Indians,' Many Tribes: Native American Diversity (LP)

Native American Cultures (LP)

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From the White House of Yesterday to the White House of Today (LP)

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The American President (W)

1800—First Family in the White House: John & Abigail Adams
Picturing First Families (LP)

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1851—Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, appears in serial form
Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture (W)

Slave Narratives:
Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources (LP)

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1944—Anniversary of "D-Day," invasion of Normandy.
Victory in Europe, 1944-1945 (LP)

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1917—Poet Gwendolyn Brooks born
Enjambment and Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool” (LP)

Academy of American Poets (W)

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*This Month's Feature

1789—James Madison proposed the Bill of Rights
Regulating Freedom of Speech (LP)

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1898—Revolutionary leader Emilio Aguinaldo declared the independence of the Philippine islands from US
AskAsia (W)

1929—Anne Frank born
Anne Frank: Writer (LP)

Anne Frank: One of Hundreds of Thousands (LP)

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1900—China's Boxer Rebellion
Asia Source (W)

Animals of the Chinese Zodiac (LP)

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1777—Continental Congress adopts design of American Flag
Flag Day: on American Memory (W)

Oh Say, Can You See
What the Star-Spangled Banner Means? (LP)

Stars and Stripes Forever:
Flag Facts for Flag Day (LP)

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1215—King John puts his seal to Magna Carta
(Lesson on Magna Carta forthcoming)
Magna Carta and Its American Legacy (W)

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1933—FDR opens his New Deal Program
Freedom by the Fireside: Legacy of FDR’s “Four Freedoms” Speech (LP)

Worth A Thousand Words:
Depression-Era Photographs (LP)

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1964—Civil Rights Act passed
Competing Voices of the Civil Rights Movement (LP)

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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)

Bringing the 'New Colossus' to America (LP)

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1936—Jesse Owens of the US sets 100 meter record at 10.2 Live From Ancient Olympia! (LP)

The Berlin Olympics (W)

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1731—Martha Washington born on this day
National First Ladies Library (W)

Remember the Ladies: First Ladies (LP)

Women in the White House (LP)

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1944—G.I. Bill of Rights signed into law
(Link to forthcoming CCNY lesson on postwar America)
American Studies at the University of Virginia (W)

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1842—Ambrose Bierce born
Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce and the Unreliable Narrator (LP)

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1950—President Truman Orders Military into Korean War
“Police Action”: The Korean War, 1950-1963 (LP)

1945—UN Charter Day
The United Nations (W)

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1880 Born—Helen Keller
 (W)

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1914—Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria at Sarajevo; WWI begins
The Great War: Evaluating the Treaty of Versailles (LP)

Great War Primary Documents Archive (W)

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