August 2006

1
1794—Whiskey Rebellion begins
Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion (LP)

2
1776—The Declaration of Independence is formally signed
Declare the Causes: The Declaration of Independence (LP)

3
1492—Christopher Columbus begins his voyage
Other Worlds: The Voyage of Columbus (LP)

What Was Columbus Thinking? (LP)

1923—Calvin Coolidge inaugurated as 30th President
I Do Solemnly Swear: Presidential Inaugurations (LP)

4
1901—Louis Armstrong born
Learning the Blues (LP)

1914—United States declares neutrality in WWI
United States Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology (LP)

1944—Anne Frank captured
Anne Frank: One of Hundreds of Thousands (LP)

5
1850—Writers Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville meet
Hawthorne: Author and Narrator (LP)

1884—Cornerstone laid for Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty: Bringing the 'New Colossus' to America (LP)

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

6
1787—First draft of the Constitution debated
The Constitutional Convention: What the Founding Fathers Said (LP)

1945—The first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan
Teaching (and Learning) about Japan (W)

7
1782—George Washington creates the Order of the Purple Heart
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? (LP)

1964—Gulf of Tonkin resolution passes
Recalling the Vietnam War (W)

8
1945—United Nations charter signed.
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations (LP)

1974—President Richard Nixon resigns
Constitutional Issues: Watergate and the Constitution (W)

9
1845—Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden
Walden Hypertext from the University of Virginia (W)

1936—African-American track star Jesse Owens wins unprecedented fourth gold medal at Olympic games
Live from Ancient Olympia! (LP)

10
1846—Congress establishes the Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian National Museum of American History (W)

1862—For the first time, Emily Dickinson sends her poems to her editor, T.W. Higginson, for review
Letters from Emily Dickinson: 'Will you be my preceptor?' (LP)

11
1919—Andrew Carnegie dies
The Industrial Age in America: Robber Barons and Captains of Industry (LP)

The Industrial Age in America: Sweatshops, Steel Mills, and Factories (LP)

12
1877—Thomas A. Edison said to complete model of first phonograph
Thomas Edison’s Inventions in the 1900s and Today: From “New” to You! (LP)

13
1521—Aztec capital falls to Cortez
The Aztecs — Mighty Warriors of Mexico (LP)

Conquistadors (W)

1818—Women’s rights pioneer Lucy Stone is born
Who Were the Foremothers of Women’s Equality? (LP)

Women’s Equality: Changing Attitudes and Beliefs (LP)

14
1848—Congress creates Oregon territory
Go West: Imagining the Oregon Trail (LP)

If You Were a Pioneer on the Oregon Trail (LP)

1935—Social Security Act passes
Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs (LP)

New Deal Network (W)

15
1057—King Macbeth of Scotland is slain by son of King Duncan
Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and the “Dagger of the Mind” (LP)

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

1769—Napoleon Bonaparte is born
Napoleon (W)

16
1863—Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation
Attitudes Toward Emancipation (LP)

1896—First major discovery of gold in Alaska, sparking the Klondike Gold Rush.
Metaphorical Gold: Mining the Gold Rush for Stories (LP)

17
1786—Davy Crockett is born
Born on a Mountaintop?: Davy Crocket, Tall Tales, and History (LP)

18
1774—Explorer Meriwether Lewis is born
On This Day With Lewis and Clark (LP)

1894—Congress creates Bureau of Immigration
Where I Come From (LP)

New Americans (W)

19
1958—NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City lunch counters
Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement (LP)

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

20
1858—Famed Lincoln-Douglas debates begin
Before Brother Fought Brother: A Debate Against Slavery (LP)

1866—Newly formed National Labor Union calls on Congress to mandate eight-hour workday
Was There an Industrial Revolution? New Workplace, New Technology, New Consumers (LP)

1964—President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure
Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement (LP)

21
1831—Nat Turner leads rebellion of slaves in Virginia
Slave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources  (LP)

22
1864—International Red Cross founded.
Images at War (LP)

23
1904—Author Kate Chopin dies.
Kate Chopin's The Awakening: No Choice but Under? (LP)

24
1814—British capture and burn Washington after Battle of Bladensburg
President Madison's 1812 War Message (LP)

79—Mt. Vesuvius erupts
In Old Pompeii (LP)

25
1892—Stephen Crane is fired from his job as reporter for New York Tribune
The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Realism (LP)

Born 1819—Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton Detective agency
The Industrial Age in America: Sweatshops, Steel Mills, and Factories (LP)

26
1920— – The Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women’s suffrage, is adopted
Voting Rights for Women: Pro- and Anti-Suffrage (LP)

Women’s Suffrage: Why the West First? (LP)

27
1789—The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen is signed in France
French Connections (LP)

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution (W)

1941—Prince Fumimaro Konoye, Prime Minister of Japan, invites President Roosevelt to meet with him.

Turning the Tide in the Pacific, 1941-1943 (LP)
Victory in the Pacific, 1943-1945 (LP)

28
1963—Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers “I have a dream” speech on steps of Lincoln memorial
Dr. King's Dream (LP)

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

Martin Luther King, Jr., (LP)

29
1533—Pizarro executes last Incan Emperor
Couriers in the Inca Empire: Getting Your Message Across (LP)

1758—First U.S. Indian reservation established
Not 'Indians,' Many Tribes: Native American Diversity (LP)

1786—Shay’s rebellion begins
Before and Beyond the Constitution: The President Under the Articles of Confederation (LP)

30
1862—Second Battle of Manassas ends
Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: the Sweep of the Universe (LP)

1967—Thurgood Marshall confirmed as first African-American Supreme Court Justice
Oyez Project: A Supreme Court Multimedia Database (W)

31
1862—The Congressional Medal of Honor is established
What Makes a Hero? (LP)

Portrait of a Hero (LP)