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1955—Rosa Parks arrested; initiated the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement (LP)
We the People Bookshelf:
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (WTP)
(19b) Selma to Montgomery march (PA)
The History of Jim Crow (W)
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1823—President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine"
The President's Roles and Responsibilities: Understanding the President's Job (LP)
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1847—Frederick Douglass and Martin R Delaney begin anti-slavery paper The North Star
From Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography (LP)
1755—Born, Gilbert Stuart, American painter
An Introduction to the Relationship Between Composition and Content in the Visual Arts (LP)
(3b) George Washington, The Landsdowne Portrait, Picturing America (W)
Portraits, Pears, and Perfect Landscapes: Investigating Genre in the Visual Arts (LP)
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1942—FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration
Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs (LP)
18b Migrant Mother, 1936 (PA) (W)
1842—Born, Sioux chief Ta-sunko-witko (Crazy Horse)
We the People Bookshelf (WTP)
Life on the Great Plains (LP)
Native American History (W)
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1848—President Polk confirms California gold discovery
8a Looking Down Yosemite, California, 1865 (PA)
Gold Rush! California's Untold Stories (W)
1791—Died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer
Mozart Forum (W)
New York Philharmonic for Kids Zone (W)
1933—End of Prohibition
U.S. History: The Great Depression (LP)
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1926, died—Claude Monet, impressionist painter.
Realistic Impressions: Investigating Movements in the Visual Arts (LP)
12b, Portrait of a Boy, 1890 (PA)
An Introduction to the Relationship Between Composition and Content in the Visual Arts (LP)
1877—Thomas Edison made the first sound recording into his newly invented phonograph
Thomas Edison’s Inventions in the 1900’s and today: From “New” to You! (LP)
Thomas A. Edison Papers (W)
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1941—Japan attacks Pearl Harbor; U.S. declares war on Japan
The Road to Pearl Harbor
Turning the Tide in the Pacific, 1941-1943 (LP)
Victory in the Pacific, 1943-1945 (LP)
1928—Born, Willa Cather, American author
We the People Bookshelf
O Pioneers! (WTP)
Pioneer Values in Willa Cather’s My Antonia (LP)
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1765—Born, Eli Whitney inventor (Cotton Gin)
Factory vs. Plantation in the North and South (LP)
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Born 1608—John Milton, poet/puritan
“World enough, and time”—Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress (LP)
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1898—Spanish- American War ends.
Great American Speeches (W)
1830—Born, Emily Dickinson, American poet
“Leap, plashless”: Emily Dickinson and Poetic Imagination (LP)
Letters from Emily Dickinson: ‘Will you be my preceptor?’ (LP)
Animating Poetry: Reading Poems About the Natural World (LP) (LP)
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1803—Born, Hector Berlioz, French composer
New York Philharmonic KidZone (W)
French Connections (LP)
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1800—Washington, DC established as U.S. capital.
From the White House of Yesterday to the White House of Today (LP)
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1862—Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg
The American Civil War: “A Terrible Swift Sword” (LP)
The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Courage (LP)
We the People Bookshelf (WTP):
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
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1799—George Washington died in his Mt. Vernon home
George Washington: The Living Symbol (LP)
3b, George Washington, by Gilbert Stuart, 1796 (PA)
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1791—The new United States confirmed the fundamental rights of its citizens by adopting the Bill of Rights
Freedom by the Fireside: The Legacy of FDR’s “Four Freedoms” Speech (LP)
19a Rockwell, 19b Selma March (PA)
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1773—Boston Tea Party
Revolutionary Tea Parties and the Reasons for Revolution (LP)
The Boston Tea Party: Costume Optional? (LP)
1770—Born, Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer
DSO Kids, Dallas Symphony Orchestra (W)
1775—Born, Jane Austen, English novelist
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: The Novel as a Historical Source (LP)
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1903—Wright Brothers 1st flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
“Fly Girls”: Women Aviators in World War II (LP)
The U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission (W)
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1865—13th Amendment to U.S. Constitution ratified, abolishing slavery
Attitudes Toward Emancipation (LP)
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1849— Born, Henry Clay Frick—built world's largest coke & steel operation
The Industrial Age in America: Sweatshops, Steel Mills, and Factories (LP)
15a American Landscape, 1930, Charles Scheeler (PA)
Picturing America
Born 1790—Sir William Parry, Arctic explorer
Kennewick Man: Science and Sacred Rights (LP)
1732—Benjamin Franklin began publishing “Poor Richard’s Almanac”
Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Library (W)
4b Hiram Powers, Benjamin Franklin, 1862 (PA)
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1803—Louisiana Purchase formalized
On This Day With Lewis and Clark (LP)
Lewis & Clark, The Journal of the Corps of Discovery (W)
Exploring the West from Monticello (W)
The Captain’s Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe—Ronald Smith (WTP)
We the People Bookshelf
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1375—Died, Giovanni Boccaccio Italian poet
The Path of the Black Death (LP)
Student Interactive
Interactive Map of the Path of the Black Death
1940—Died, F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer
The “Secret Society” and Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (LP)
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Born 1744—Abigail Adams, 2nd first lady (1797-1801)
Remember the Ladies: The First Ladies (LP)
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1907—1st all-steel passenger railroad coach completed, Altoona PA
I Hear the Locomotives: The Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad (LP)
Across America on an Emigrant Train—Jim Murphy (WTP)
We the People Bookshelf
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1814—Treaty of Ghent (end of the War of 1812) signed
President Madison's 1812 War Message (LP)
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Christmas
Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus
The Gift of Holiday Traditions: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas
1776—George Washington's army crosses the Delaware and defeats Hessians at Trenton
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? (LP)
4a Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851 (PA)
Picturing America
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1492—1st Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus
Other Worlds: The Voyage of Columbus (LP)
Picturing America
1b Mission Nuestra Señora de la Concepción (PA)
Mission Nuestra Señora de la Concepción and the Spanish Mission in the New World (PA) (LP)
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1571—Born, Johannes Kepler, German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer
Galileo and the Inevitability of Ideas (LP)
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1856—Born, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States
Woodrow Wilson and Foreign Policy (LP)
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2006—New Year's Eve
1879—Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp
Thomas Edison’s Inventions in the 1900s and Today: From “New” to You! (LP)
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