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1863—The Battle of Gettysburg starts.
Images at War (LP)
Alexander Gardner/Abraham Lincoln
Picturing America (PA)
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1890—President Harrison signs Sherman Antitrust Act
Before and Beyond the Constitution: What Should a President do? (LP)
Born 1908—Thurgood Marshall, first African-American Supreme Court Justice
Oyez Project at Northwestern University (W)
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1863—Last day of Battle of Gettysburg. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia repulsed.
Lincoln Goes To War (LP)
Winslow Homer/Veteran in a New Field
Picturing America (PA)
Born 1883—Franz Kafka
Goethe Institute (W)
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1776—Congress approves Declaration of Independence
U.S. Independence Day!
Declare the Causes: The Declaration of Independence (LP)
Emanuel Leutze/Washington Crossing the Delaware
Picturing America (PA)
1804: born—Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hawthorne: Author and Narrator (LP)
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1811 Venezuela, 1st South American country to gain independence from Spain
The Monroe Doctrine: Origin and Early American Foreign Policy (LP)
Born 1923—Japanese-American poet Mitsuye Yamada.
Can You Haiku? (LP)
Tanka? You're Welcome! (LP)
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1981—Sandra Day O'Connor nominated to be the first female Supreme Court justice
Eyewitness to History (LP)
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1932—Stock Market falls to lowest point during the Depression
Worth a Thousand Words: Depression Era Photographs (LP)
Dorothea Lange/Migrant Mother
Picturing America (PA)
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Born 1821—Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire: The Poet of Sickness and Evil (LP)
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1925- In Dayton, Tennessee, a high school science teacher, John T.Scopes, is accused of teaching evolution in violation of a state law against it.
The Scopes Trial began today in 1925 (LP)
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Born 1767—John Quincy Adams, son of John Adams and sixth president of the United States
Like Father, Like Son: Presidential Families (LP)
1804—Hamilton and Burr duel
American Experience: The Duel (W)
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Born 1817—Henry David Thoreau
More Amazing Americans: A Web Quest (LP)
What Makes a Hero? (LP)
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Born 100 B.C.—Julius Caesar
In Old Pompeii (LP)
VROMA (W)
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Born 1912—Woody Guthrie, folk singer
Music from Across America (LP)
Thomas Hart Benton/The Sources of Country Music
Picturing America (PA)
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1918—the Second Battle of the Marne began during World War I
A Documentary Chronology of World War I (LP)
The Great War Primary Archive (W)
Childe Hassam/Allies Day, May 1917
Picturing America (PA)
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1790—Congress declared Washington, DC, the permanent capital of the U.S.
A Landmark Lesson:The U.S. Capitol Building (LP)
From the White House of Yesterday to the White House of Today (LP)
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1453—Hundred Years War ends
Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years War (LP)
1959—Paleontologist Mary Leakey discovered one of the oldest hominid skulls in Tanzania
Cave Art: Discovering Prehistoric Humans through Pictures (LP)
La Vie en Cave! (LP)
Kennewick Man (LP)
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Died 1792—John Paul Jones, in Paris
Portrait of a Hero (LP)
Voices of the American Revolution (LP)
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1848—First Women's Right's Convention, Seneca Falls, NY
Who Were the Foremothers of Women’s Equality? (LP)
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1969—Astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon
Eyewitness to History (LP)
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1899: The American poet Hart Crane is born in Garrettsville, Ohio
Hart Crane at the Academy of American Poets (W)
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1849-Emma Lazarus, the American-Jewish poet whose words are inscribed at the Statue of Liberty, is born.
The Statue of Liberty: Bringing the 'New Colossus' to America (LP)
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Died 1885—Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States
American President (W)
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1911—Hiram Bingham discovers Machu Picchu, the ancient Incan ruin
Couriers in the Inca Empire: Getting Your Message Across (LP)
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1952—Puerto Rico became a commonwealth of the United States
A Collector’s Vision of Puerto Rico (W)
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1856-Playwright George Bernard Shaw is born in Dublin, Ireland.
Irish Literature, Mythology, Folklore and Drama (W)
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Died 1946—Gertrude Stein
Academy of American Poets (W)
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Born 1929—Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Remember the Ladies: The First Ladies (LP)
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Today in 1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust (W)
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Born 1818—Emily Brontë
Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine (LP)
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Born 1919—Primo Levi, author of Survival in Aushchwitz
Holocaust and Resistance (LP)
Anne Frank: One of Hundreds of Thousands
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Anne Frank: Writer (LP)
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