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LEGEND: (W) = Website Feature (LP) = Lesson Plan |
1 | Thursday1863- Lincoln's Emancipation ProclamationThe Lincoln Institute: Studies of Abraham Lincoln (W) Lincoln/Net (W) Attitudes Toward Emancipation (LP) Born 1753- Phillis Wheatley, first Black woman poet What Makes a Hero (LP) The Academy of American Poets (W) 1892—Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York officially opened Emigration and Immigration to the United States 1789-1930 (W) |
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2 | Friday1831- William Lloyd Garrison founds abolitionist newspaper The LiberatorPerspectives on the Slave Narrative (LP) Harpweek: Towards Racial Equality - Slavery Timeline (W) |
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3 | SaturdayBorn 106 BC- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman & authorIn Old Pompeii (LP) Latin Literature: Famous Romans (W) |
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4 | SundayBorn 1785- Jakob Grimm, German collector of fairy talesFairy Tales Around the World (LP) Helpful Animals and Compassionate Humans in Folklore (LP) |
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6 | Tuesday |
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7 | Wednesday1610- Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellitesGalileo and the Inevitability of Ideas (LP) The Galileo Project (W) Born 1891- Zora Neale Hurston, African-American novelist Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (LP) |
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9 | Friday1789- Treaty with Six Indian NationsNot 'Indians,' Many Tribes: Native American Diversity (LP) Avalon Project (W) Died 1906- Paul Laurence Dunbar, African-American poet & novelist ExploreDC.org: Paul Laurence Dunbar (W) |
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10 | Saturday1845- Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning begin correspondingBrowning’s “My Last Duchess” and Dramatic Monologue (LP) Victorian Web: The Relationship of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning (W) |
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11 | Sunday1879- Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa beginsChinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: Oral and Literary Strategies (LP) Art and Life in Africa Online: Zulu Information (W) |
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12 | Monday1912- Bread & Roses Strike beginsThe Industrial Age in America: Sweatshops, Steel Mills, and Factories (LP) History Matters: Camella Teoli Testifies about the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike (W) |
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13 | Tuesday |
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14 | Wednesday1784- Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies the Treaty of ParisLost Hero: Who Was Really Our First President? (LP) Avalon Project: Treaty of Paris (W) |
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15 | ThursdayBorn 1929- ML King Jr, activist & civil rights leaderLet Freedom Ring: The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King (LP) Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Power of Nonviolence (LP) |
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16 | Friday1913- British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule for IrelandAvalon Project: The Bull of Pope Adrian IV Empowering Henry II to Conquer Ireland (W) Conversations With History: ConorCruise O'Brien, Irish statesman & writer (W) 2004- Martin Luther King Day (USA) Dr. King's Dream (LP) |
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17 | SaturdayBorn 1706- Benjamin Franklin, US statesman & philosopherJefferson vs. Franklin: Renaissance Men (LP) Jefferson vs. Franklin: Revolutionary Philosophers (LP) |
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18 | SundayThe Constitutional Convention:What the Founding Fathers Said (LP) |
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19 | MondayBorn 1809- Edgar Allen Poe, story writer and poetEdgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Narrator (LP) Born 570- Mohammed Islamic prophet Exploring Ancient World Cultures: Early Islam (W) |
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20 | TuesdayU.S. Presidential InaugurationPresidential Inaugurations: A Capital Parade on a Cold Winter’s Day (LP) |
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21 | Wednesday1824- Ashantees defeat British in West AfricaArt and Life in Africa Online: Asante (W) |
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22 | ThursdayBorn 1788- Lord Byron, English Romantic poetRomantic Circles (W) |
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23 | Friday1962- Libya, Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia plan to form United Arab MaghrebAfrican Studies WWW (W) |
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24 | SaturdayBorn 1862- Edith Wharton, US novelistAmerican Collection (W) Scribbling Women (W) |
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25 | Sunday1851- Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights ConventionPortrait of a Hero (LP) Born 1882- Virginia Woolf, British writer Internet Public Library (W) |
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26 | Monday |
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27 | TuesdayBorn 1832- Lewis CarrollA Trip to Wonderland (LP) Childhood Through the Looking Glass (LP) |
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28 | Wednesday1961- Republic of Rwanda proclaimedAfrican Studies WWW: Rwanda (W) Conversations With History: Alice Karakezi (W) |
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29 | ThursdayBorn 1737—'Thomas PaineCommon Sense: The Rhetoric of Popular Democracy (LP) Background on the Patriot Attitude Toward the Monarchy (LP) Died 1963- Robert Frost, US poet Poems That Tell a Story: Narrative and Persona in the Poetry of Robert Frost (LP) |
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30 | FridayBorn 1882- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President“The Proper Application of Overwhelming Force”: The United States in World War II (LP) Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs (LP) |
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31 | Saturday1865- Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in USAttitudes Toward Emancipation (LP) Families in Bondage (LP) |
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