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September 2002

 
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LEGEND:  (W) = Website Feature  (LP) = Lesson Plan (PA) = Picturing America (WTP) = We the People Bookshelf
M TU W TH F SA/SU
           

1
1939—Germany invades Poland, starting WWII
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (W)

Holocaust and Resistance (LP)

Images at War (LP)

2
LABOR DAY


3

La Familia (LP)


Where I Come From (LP)


City/La Ciudad (W)

4


Born 1908— Richard Wright, author
Internet Public Library/Literary Criticism: Richard Wright (W)

5
1774—First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia
The Constitutional Convention: What the Founding Fathers Said (LP)

6


Born 1860—Jane Addams
What Makes a hero?(LP)

Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1820-1940 (W)

7

What Masks Reveal (LP)

8

What Was Columbus Thinking? (LP)

9

Couriers in the Inca Empire: Getting Your Message Across (LP)


A Collector's Vision of Puerto Rico (W)

10
1608—John Smith assumes the Presidency of Jamestown Colony
Virtual Jamestown (W)
Jamestown Changes (LP)

11
Born 1862—O.Henry
Internet Public Library/Literary Criticism: O. Henry (W)

12
1953—Jacqueline Bouvier marries John F. Kennedy
The American President (W)

Remembering the Ladies: The First Ladies (LP)

Women in the White House (LP)

13
Died 1321—Dante Alighieri
A Storybook Romance:
Dante's Paolo and Francesca
(LP)

Digital Dante (W)

14


Died 1901—President William McKinley, of gun shot wounds inflicted by an assassin
The American President (W)

15

16
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
 (W)

INDEPENDENCE DAY FOR MEXICO

Casa De Joanna (W)

17

CITIZENSHIP DAY


1787—Final Draft of the Constitution signed by the Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention: Four Founding Fathers You May Never Have Met (P)

Digital Classroom: Constitution Day (W)

18

INDEPENDENCE DAY FOR CHILE


1793—Washington lays the cornerstone of the Capitol Building
A Landmark Lesson(LP)

American Studies
(W)
Building Big (W)

1895—Booker T. Washington delivers his "Atlanta Compromise" address
Great American Speeches (W)

19
1796—George Washington gives his farewell address as President
Papers of George Washington (W)

20
Born 1885—Ferdinand "Jellyroll" Morton, jazz musician
Jazz (W)

21
1981—Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first female Supreme Court Justice
Oyez, Oyez, Oyez (W)

22

AUTUMN BEGINS

23

What They Left Behind: Early Multi-National Influences in the United States (LP)


Conquistadors (W)

24
1957—Eisenhower orders US Troops to desegregate Little Rock, Arkansas schools
We Shall Overcome (W)

Born 1896—F.Scott Fitzgerald
F.Scott Fitzgerald Centenary (W)

25
1788—Congress proposes the Bill of Rights

The Preamble to the Constitution:
How Do You Make a More Perfect Union?
 (LP)

26
Born 1888—T.S. Eliot
Academy of American Poets (W)

27
1979—Congress creates the Department of Education
The History of Education and Childhood (W)

Born 1840—Thomas Nast
Harpweek (W)

28

AMERICAN
INDIAN DAY

Not 'Indians,' Many Tribes: Native American Diversity
(LP)
Native American Cultures Across the U.S. (LP)

1912—William Christopher Handy publishes "Memphis Blues"
Learning The Blues (LP)

29

Other Worlds: The Voyage of Columbus (LP)


Columbus and the Age of Discovery (W)

30

In My Other Life (LP)


The Language Bank (LP)