EDSITEment Calendar



EDSITEment Calendar for January 2002 Historical Beginnings Around the World A collection of peer-reviewed websites and EDSITEment lesson plans covering holidays and special events.

LEGEND: (W) = Website Feature (LP) = Lesson Plan (ALA) = Additional Learning Activity * = This Month's Feature

M	TU	W	TH	F	SA/SU
	1 New Year's Day Born 1753- Phillis Wheatley, first Black woman poet What Makes a Hero (LP) The Academy of American Poets (W) 1863- Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation Attitudes Toward Emancipation (LP) National Archives and Records Administration (W)	2 1831- William Lloyd Garrison founds abolitionist newspaper The Liberator Perspectives on the Slave Narrative (LP) Harpweek: Towards Racial Equality - Slavery Timeline (W)	3 Born 106 BC- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman & author Latin Literature: Famous Romans (W)	4 Born 1785- Jakob Grimm, German collector of fairy tales Fairy Tales Around the World (W) Born 1809- Louis Braille History of Education: History of Reading Codes for the Blind (W)	5
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7 1610- Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites Galileo and the Inevitability of Ideas (LP) The Galileo Project (W) Born 1891- Zora Neale Hurston, African-American novelist Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community (W) 2002- Eastern Orthodox Christmas	8 1918- President Wilson outlines 14 points for peace after WWI The American President (W) Archive of American Public Address (W)	9 1789- Treaty with Six Indian Nations Avalon Project (W) Died 1906- Paul Laurence Dunbar, African-American poet & novelist ExploreDC.org: Paul Laurence Dunbar (W)	10 1845- Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning begin corresponding Victorian Web: The Relationship of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning (W)	11 1879- Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins Art and Life in Africa Online: Zulu Information (W) 1972- East-Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh AskAsia: History of India Timeline (W)	12 1912- Bread & Roses Strike begins Women and Social Movements in the United States , 1775-1940 (W) History Matters: Camella Teoli Testifies about the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike (W)
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14 1784- Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris American Memory Project: Treaty of Paris (W) 1953- Yugoslavia elects its 1st president (Marshal Tito) Internet Public Library: Yugoslavia (W)	15 Born 1929- ML King Jr, activist & civil rights leader Let Freedom Ring: The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King (LP) Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Power of Nonviolence (LP) 1975- Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence African Voices: History (W)	16 1913- British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule for Ireland Avalon Project: The Bull of Pope Adrian IV Empowering Henry II to Conquer Ireland (W) Conversations With History: ConorCruise O'Brien, Irish statesman & writer (W)	17 Born 1706- Benjamin Franklin, US statesman & philosopher Portrait of a Hero (LP) 1945 - Liberation of Warsaw by Soviet troops - end of Nazi occupation Holocaust and Resistance (LP) U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (W)	18 1966- Robert C Weaver, confirmed as 1st black cabinet member (HUD)	19 Born 570- Mohammed Islamic prophet Exploring Ancient World Cultures: Early Islam (W) Born 1809- Edgar Allen Poe, story writer and poet Tales of the Supernatural (LP)
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21 1824- Ashantees defeat British in West Africa Art and Life in Africa Online: Asante (W) 2002- Martin Luther King Day (USA) Dr. King's Dream (LP) Martin Luther King, Jr. (W)	22 Born 1788- Lord Byron, English Romantic poet Romantic Circles (W)	23 1962- Libya, Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia plan to form United Arab Maghreb American Association of Teachers of French: Pays Francophones- Guide Pedagogique (W)	24 Born 1862- Edith Wharton, US novelist American Collection (W) Born 1874- Arthur Schomburg, bibliophile, writer NYPL Digital Schomburg Images of 19th Century African-Americans (W)	25 1851- Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention Portrait of a Hero (LP) Born 1882- Virginia Woolf, British writer Internet Public Library (W)	26
					27 Born 1832- Lewis Carroll A Trip to Wonderland (LP) Childhood Through the Looking Glass (LP) 1973- Vietnam peace treaty signed in Paris
28 1961- Republic of Rwanda proclaimed African Studies WWW: Rwanda (W) Conversations With History: Alice Karakezi (W)	29 Born 1737- Thomas Paine political essayist Died 1963- Robert Frost, US poet Writing Poetry Like the Pros (LP)	30 Born 1882- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President Reading, Writing, & 'Rithmatic in the One-Room Schoolhouse (LP) Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs (LP)	31 1865- Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in US Freedmen and Southern Society Project (W) Families in Bondage (LP)