EDSITEment Calendar for February
 African American History Month


  A collection of peer-reviewed websites and EDSITEment lesson plans covering holidays and special events.
   Calendar Archive  
 LEGEND:  (W) = Website Feature (LP) = Lesson Plan (ALA) = Additional Learning Activity   * = This Month's Activity
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Africans in America (W)

Spirituals (LP)
2
Groundhog Day
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Families in Bondage (LP)

Perspectives on the Slave Narrative (LP)
6
Joseph Cinque

Exploring Amistad (W)

Who Was Cinque? (LP)
7
Elizabeth Johnson Harris

Documents of African American Women (W)

Documenting the American South (W
8
Emancipation Day Celebration

Freedmen and Southern Society Project (W)
9
Attittudes Toward Emancipation (LP)
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Lincoln's Birthday
Lincoln Goes to War (LP)

We Must Not Be Enemies: Lincoln's First Inaugural Address (LP)
13
Studio portrait of Canzonetta

NYPL Digital Schomburg Images of 19th Century African-Americans (W)
14
Valentines Day
"You Kiss by the Book":Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (LP)

A Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca (LP)
15
Three Women in Harlem

Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community
(W)
16
Civil Rights March

We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement (W)
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Presidents Day
American President (W)

Presidential Speeches (W)
20
George Washington

Papers of George Washington (W)
21
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project (W)
22
Washington's Birthday
The Living Symbol (LP)

Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion (LP)
23
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Power of Nonviolence (LP)

Let Freedom Ring: The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (LP)
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Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras Mask

The Meaning Behind the Mask (LP)
27
Mardi Gras
What Masks Reveal (LP)
28
Musician with an Accordian

River of Song (W)