EDSITEment Calendar for November:
Native American History Month


  A collection of peer-reviewed websites and EDSITEment lesson plans covering holidays and special events.
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 LEGEND:  (W) = Website Feature (LP) = Lesson Plan (ALA) = Additional Learning Activity   * = This Month's Feature
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79—Mt. Vesuvius buries Pompeii

In Old Pompeii (LP)

1986—First National War Monument for Native Americans dedicated

Native Americans From the Land Teacher Serve (W)

Not 'Indians,' Many Tribes: Native American Diversity (LP)

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1972—500 Native Americans conclude the
"Trail of Broken Treaties" march to Washington, DC

Native Americans From the Land from Teacher Serve (W)

Mexico and Portugal celebrate Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead

Casa de Joanna: Dia de los Muertos (W)

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1922—Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt

Exploring Ancient World Cultures (W)
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1813—Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain

Conquistadors (W)
7
1917—Bolshevik Revolution in Russia

Bucknell Russian Studies Department (W)

1811—Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen. William Henry Harrison routes Indians
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1938—"Kristallnacht" (Crystal Night): Nazi Stormtroopers attack Jews

The US Holocaust Museum: Kristallnacht, The 1938 Pogroms (W)

Holocaust and Resistance (LP)
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1918—World War I Armistice (Veterans Day)

Great War Primary Documents Archive: The Armistice Demands (W)
12
Born 1815—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, suffragist

Cultural Change (LP)

US Women's History Workshop: A Narrative Guide to the Women's Rights Movement (W)

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
(W)
13
1839—1st US antislavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY

Exploring the Amistad: The Election of 1840 (W)
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1969—250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Washington, DC against the Vietnam War

AskAsia: Vietnam History (W)

Conversations with History: Recalling the Vietnam War (W)
16
Born 1930—Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer

The New Americans - Teacher Guide - Nigeria 101 (W)

1864—Union General William T. Sherman sets fire to Atlanta, begins March to the Sea

Valley of the Shadow
(W)
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1863—Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Adderss

Library of Congress: America's Story from America's Library (W)

National Park Service, Links to the Past: Battle of Gettysburg (W)

Lincoln Goes to War (LP)

We Must Not Be Enemies: Lincoln's First Inaugural Address (LP)

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1789—New Jersey becoms 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights
21
1620—Mayflower Compact signed

Plymouth Colony Archive Project (W)
22
Born 1819—George Eliot, English novelist

Victorian Web (W)

1963—President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, TX

The American President: The Charismatic President—Death of a President (W)
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1958—Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community

Art and Life in Africa Online (W)

Learner.org: Mali and Songhai
(W)
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1865—Alice in Wonderland published

Childhood Through the Looking-Glass (LP)

A Trip to Wonderland (LP)
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1095—Pope Urban II proclaims First Crusade at Council of Clermont

The End of Europe's Middle Ages: The Crusades (W)
28
Born 1757—William Blake, English poet and painter

William Blake Archive
(W)

1863—Thanksgiving observed as an U.S. holiday

Plymouth Colony Archive (W)

Thanksgiving in American Memory: Founders Give Thanks (W)
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1864—Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne Indians, Colorado

New Perspectives on the West: Black Kettle (W)

New Prespectives on the West: John M. Chivington (W)
30
Born 1667—Jonathon Swift, author

Gulliver's Travels (W)

Born 1835—Mark Twain, author

Mark Twain and American Humor (LP)

Mark Twain and His Times (W)