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1986—First National War Monument for Native Americans dedicated
Not 'Indians,' Many Tribes: Native American Diversity (LP)
Born 1871—Stephen Crane
The Open Boat (LP)
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1948—Harry Truman elected President
“Police Action:” The Korean War (LP)
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1783—Washington orders the Continental Army disbanded
The American War for Independence (LP)
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? (LP)
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Election Day
George Caleb Bingham's The County Election (PA)
1922—Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt
Egyptian Symbols and Figures: Hieroglyphs (LP)
Egypt’s Pyramids: Monuments with a Message (LP)
Egyptian Symbols and Figures: Scroll Paintings (LP)
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1492—Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from the Indians of Cuba
What Was Columbus Thinking? (LP)
Native American Cultures Across the U.S. (LP)
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1813—Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain
Mission Nuestra Señora de la Concepción and the Spanish Mission in the New World (PA) (LP)
Conquistadors (W)
1860—Abraham Lincoln elected
Abraham Lincoln, the 1860 Election, and the Future of the American Union and Slavery (LP)
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1811—Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen. William Henry Harrison defeats a Shawnee-led confederation of Ohio Valley tribes.
The Campaign of 1840: William Henry Harrison and Tyler, Too (LP)
George Caleb Bingham's The County Election (PA)
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1864—Abraham Lincoln elected to second term
Abraham Lincoln and Wartime Politics (LP)
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1938—"Kristallnacht" (Crystal Night): Nazi Stormtroopers attack Jews
The US Holocaust Museum (W)
Holocaust and Resistance (LP)
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1808—Osage Treaty signed
New Perspectives on the West—Events (W)
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1918—World War I Armistice (Veterans Day)
The Great War: Evaluating the Treaty of Versailles (LP)
Childe Hassam Allies Day, May 1917(PA)
United States Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology (LP)
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Born 1815—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, suffragist
Who Were the Foremothers of Women’s Equality? (LP)
Women’s Equality: Changing Attitudes and Beliefs (LP)
Cultural Change (LP)
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1839—1st US antislavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY
Slave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources (LP)
African-American Communities in the North Before the Civil War (LP)
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1851—Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville published
Academy of American Poets (W)
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1777—The American colonies, in the midst of a war for Independence, approve a final version of the Articles of Confederation
The President under the Articles of Confederation (LP)
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1864—Union General William T. Sherman sets fire to Atlanta, begins March to the Sea
Before Brother Fought Brother: Life in the North and South 1847-1861 (LP)
Born 1930—Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Teaching Through the Novel (LP)
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1865—Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
Mark Twain and American Humor (LP)
Born 1789— Louis Daguerre, the man who helped invent the art of photography
Making Sense in Photographs and Poems (LP)
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1863—Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address
We Must Not Be Enemies: Lincoln's First Inaugural Address (LP)
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1789—New Jersey becomes 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights
The Constitutional Convention: Four Founding Fathers You May Never Have Met (LP)
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1789—North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state
The Constitutional Convention: What the Founding Fathers Said (LP)
1877— Thomas Edison announces he has invented a new device for recording and playing back sound, which he calls the phonograph
Thomas Edison’s Inventions in the 1900s and Today: From “New” to You! (LP)
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1963—President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, TX
The American President (W)
Born 1819—George Eliot, English novelist
Victorian Web (W)
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1958—Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community
Trekking to Timbuktu (LP)
Learner.org: Mali and Songhai (W)
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Born 1835— Andrew Carnegie, in Dunfermline, Scotland
The Industrial Age in America: Robber Barons and Captains of Industry (LP)
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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)
Not Everyone Lived in Castles During the Middle Ages (LP)
Died 8 B.C.—The Roman poet Horace
Academy of American Poets (W)
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Born 1757—William Blake, English poet and painter
William Blake Archive (W)
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1864—Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne Indians, Colorado
New Perspectives on the West (W)
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Born 1667—Jonathan Swift, author
Gulliver's Travels (W)
Born 1835—Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), author
Mark Twain and American Humor
Critical Ways of Seeing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Context (LP)
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