July 2004

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Summertime Reading and Learning

1863—The Battle of Gettysburg starts.
Images at War  (LP)

1944—Bretton Woods Conference establishes IMF & World Bank
Avalon Project (W)

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1890—President Harrison signs Sherman Antitrust Act
Before and Beyond the Constitution: What Should a President do? (LP)

Born 1908—Thurgood Marshall, first African-American Supreme Court Justice
Oyez Project at Northwestern University (W)

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Born 1883—Franz Kafka
Goethe Institute (W)

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1U.S. Independence Day!
Declare the Causes: The Declaration of Independence (LP)

1776—Congress approves Declaration of Independence
The Constitutional Convention: Four Founding Fathers You May Never Have Met (LP)

1804: born—Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hawthorne: Author and Narrator (LP)

Died 1826—Both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams
The Constitutional Convention: What the Founding Fathers Said (LP)

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1811 Venezuela, 1st South American country to gain independence from Spain
The Monroe Doctrine: Origin and Early American Foreign Policy (LP)

Conquistadors (W)

1962—Algeria declared its independence from France
Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal! (LP)

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Born 1946—George W. Bush
Like Father Like Son: Presidential Families (LP)

The President's Roles and Responsibilities: Communicating with the President (LP)

The President's Roles and Responsibilities: Understanding the President's Job (LP)

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1981—Sandra Day O'Connor nominated to be the first female Supreme Court justice
Eyewitness to History (LP)

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1932—Stock Market falls to lowest point during the Depression
Worth a Thousand Words: Depression Era Photographs (LP)

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Born 1821—Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire: The Poet of Sickness and Evil (LP)

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Died 1941—Jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton Jazz and World War II (LP)

JAM: Jazz Appreciation Month

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1804—Hamilton and Burr duel Chief Executives Compared: The Federalist Papers (LP)

The Constitutional Convention: Four Founding Fathers You May Have Never Met (LP)

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Born 1817—Henry David Thoreau More Amazing Americans: A Web Quest (LP)

What Makes a Hero? (LP)

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Born 100 B.C.—Julius Caesar
In Old Pompeii (LP)
VROMA (W)

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Born 1912—Woody Guthrie, folk singer
Music from Across America (LP)

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1918—the Second Battle of the Marne began during World War I
A Documentary Chronology of World War I (LP)

The Great War Primary Archive (W)

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1790—Congress declared Washington, DC, the permanent capital of the U.S.
A Landmark Lesson:The U.S. Capitol Building (LP)

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

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1959—Paleontologist Mary Leakey discovered one of the oldest hominid skulls in Tanzania
Cave Art: Discovering Prehistoric Humans through Pictures (LP)

La Vie en Cave! (LP)

Kennewick Man (LP)

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Died 1792—John Paul Jones, in Paris
Portrait of a Hero (LP)

Voices of the American Revolution (LP)

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1848—First Women's Right's Convention, Seneca Falls, NY
Who Were the Foremothers of Women’s Equality? (LP)

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1969—Astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon
Eyewitness to History (LP)

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Died 1885—Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States
American President (W)

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Born 1886—Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese author
Can You Haiku? (LP)

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

Teaching (and Learning) About Japan (W)

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1952—Puerto Rico became a commonwealth of the United States
A Collector’s Vision of Puerto Rico (W)

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1965—The National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities are established by Lyndon Johnson
The National Endowment for the Humanities (W)

The National Endowment for the Arts

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Died 1946—Gertrude Stein
Academy of American Poets (W)

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Born 1929—Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Remember the Ladies: The First Ladies (LP)

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Born 1818—Emily Brontë
The Victorian Web—
Emily Brontë: An Overview (W)

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Born 1919—Primo Levi, author of Survival in Aushchwitz
Holocaust and Resistance (LP)

Anne Frank: One of Hundreds of Thousands
(LP)

Anne Frank: Writer (LP)