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LEGEND: (W) = Website Feature (LP) = Lesson Plan |
1 | SundayBorn 1902—Langston Hughes, African-American poetThe Poet's Voice: Langston Hughes and You (LP) |
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2 | Monday2003 Groundhog DayHelpful Animals and Compassionate Humans in Folklore (LP) |
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3 | Tuesday1870 15th Amendment Black suffrage ratifiedThe Emancipation Proclamation: First Steps Toward Freedom (LP) |
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4 | Wednesday1822 Free American Blacks Settle LiberiaArt & Life inAfrica Online (W) |
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5 | Thursday1917 Mexican Constitution adoptedLANIC (W) 2008 Mardi Gras The Meaning Behind the Mask (LP) What Masks Reveal (LP) |
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6 | Friday1778 France recognizes the United States as a sovereign nation“An Expression of the American Mind: Understanding the Declaration of Independence (LP) 1936 4th Winter Olympics open in Germany US Holocaust Memorial Museum: Winter Games (W) |
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7 | Saturday1867 Birth of Laura Ingalls WilderSodbusters! (LP) |
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8 | Sunday1887 Dawes Act passed—Indians living apart from tribe granted citizenshipNative Web (W) |
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9 | Monday1824 The House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votesThe Election is In the House: Presidential Election of 1824 (LP) 1995 Bernard Harris first Black astronaut to take spacewalk, dedicates event to achievements of all African Americans Dr. King's Dream (LP) What Makes a Hero? (LP) |
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10 | Tuesday1949 Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman opens on BroadwayDramatizing History in Arthur Miller's The Crucible (LP) |
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11 | Wednesday1945 FDR, Stalin, Churchill, sign Yalta AgreementOrigins of the Cold War (LP) 1990Nelson Mandela was released from jail after 27 years in prison Martin Luther King and the Power of Non-Violence (LP) |
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12 | Thursday1809 Born—Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president“A Word Fitly Spoken”: Abraham Lincoln on the American Union (LP) |
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13 | Friday1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New OrleansOrdinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement (LP) |
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14 | Saturday1817 Born—Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionistFrom Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography (LP) Perspectives on the Slave Narrative (LP) Valentine's Day A Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca (LP) |
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15 | Sunday1564 Born-Galileo Galilei, astronomerGalileo and the Inevitability of Ideas (LP) |
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16 | Monday |
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17 | Tuesday1801The House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, electing Jefferson President and Burr Vice President.The Duel (W) |
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18 | Wednesday1885 Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn publishedMark Twain & American Humor (LP) Critical Ways of Seeing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Context (LP) 2008 President's Day, US Presidential Timeline of the 20th Century (W) Presidential Speeches (W) The American President (W) |
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19 | Thursday1674 Peace of Westminster- NYC becomes EnglishWhat They Left Behind (LP) 1919 WEB DuBois organizes first Pan-African Congress, Paris Harlem 1900-1940 (LP) |
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20 | Friday1805 BornAngelina Grimké, abolitionist & lawyerBefore Brother Fought Brother: Women's Lives Before the Civil War (LP) Women and Social Movements in the US, 1775-1940 (W) 1962 John Glenn first American to orbit Earth What Makes a Hero? (ALA) |
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21 | Saturday1965 Malcolm X was shot to death in New York CityBlack Separatism or the Beloved Community? Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. (LP) |
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22 | Sunday1732 BornGeorge Washington, 1st US PresidentGeorge Washington: The Living Symbol (LP) What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? (LP) |
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23 | Monday1848 Died—John Quincy Adams 6th US President (1825-1829)The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Expansion of the Voting Base (LP) 1868 Born—WEB Du Bois, civil rights writer African-American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd Divisions (LP) |
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24 | Tuesday1803 Marbury v. Madison is decidedThe Supreme Court: The Judicial Power of the United States (LP) |
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25 | Wednesday1868 Andrew Johnson impeached for vioating Tenure of Office ActHarpweek (W) 1987 US Supreme Court upholds affirmative action Oyex, Oyez, Oyez: US vs. Paradise (W) |
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26 | Thursday1885 Berlin ActEuropean powers partition AfricaChinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Teaching Through the Novel (LP) Art & Life in Africa Online: Issues in African History (W) |
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27 | Friday1807 Born—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poetWhy Do We Remember Revere? Paul Revere's Ride in History and Literature (LP) Picturing America (W) 1902 Born—John Steinbeck, writer Dust Bowl Days (LP) 1933 Nazis burn Reichstag Holocaust and Resistance (LP) |
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28 | Saturday |
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