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1863- Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
The Lincoln Institute: Studies of Abraham Lincoln (W)
Lincoln/Net (W)
Attitudes Toward Emancipation (LP)
Born 1753- Phillis Wheatley, first Black woman poet
What Makes a Hero (LP)
The Academy of American Poets (W)
1892—Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York officially opened Emigration and Immigration to the United States 1789-1930 (W)
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1831- William Lloyd Garrison founds abolitionist newspaper The Liberator
Perspectives on the Slave Narrative (LP)
Harpweek: Towards Racial Equality - Slavery Timeline (W)
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Born 106 BC- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman & author
In Old Pompeii (LP)
Latin Literature: Famous Romans (W)
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Born 1785- Jakob Grimm, German collector of fairy tales
Fairy Tales Around the World (LP)
Helpful Animals and Compassionate Humans in Folklore (LP)
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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
Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (LP)
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1789- Treaty with Six Indian Nations
Not 'Indians,' Many Tribes: Native American Diversity (LP)
Avalon Project (W)
Died 1906- Paul Laurence Dunbar, African-American poet & novelist
ExploreDC.org: Paul Laurence Dunbar (W)
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1845- Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning begin corresponding
Browning’s “My Last Duchess” and Dramatic Monologue (LP)
Victorian Web: The Relationship of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning (W)
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1879- Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: Oral and Literary Strategies (LP)
Art and Life in Africa Online: Zulu Information (W)
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1912- Bread & Roses Strike begins
The Industrial Age in America: Sweatshops, Steel Mills, and Factories (LP)
History Matters: Camella Teoli Testifies about the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike (W)
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1784- Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris
Lost Hero: Who Was Really Our First President? (LP)
Avalon Project: Treaty of Paris (W)
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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)
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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)
2004- Martin Luther King Day (USA)
Dr. King's Dream (LP)
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Born 1706- Benjamin Franklin, US statesman & philosopher
Jefferson vs. Franklin: Renaissance Men (LP)
Jefferson vs. Franklin: Revolutionary Philosophers (LP)
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The Constitutional Convention:
What the Founding Fathers Said (LP)
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Born 1809- Edgar Allen Poe, story writer and poet
Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Narrator (LP)
Born 570- Mohammed Islamic prophet
Exploring Ancient World Cultures: Early Islam (W)
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U.S. Presidential Inauguration Presidential Inaugurations: A Capital Parade on a Cold Winter’s Day (LP)
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1824- Ashantees defeat British in West Africa
Art and Life in Africa Online: Asante (W)
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Born 1788- Lord Byron, English Romantic poet
Romantic Circles (W)
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1962- Libya, Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia plan to form United Arab Maghreb
African Studies WWW (W)
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Born 1862- Edith Wharton, US novelist
American Collection (W)
Scribbling Women (W)
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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)
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Born 1832- Lewis Carroll
A Trip to Wonderland (LP)
Childhood Through the Looking Glass (LP)
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1961- Republic of Rwanda proclaimed
African Studies WWW: Rwanda (W)
Conversations With History: Alice Karakezi (W)
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Born 1737—'Thomas Paine
Common Sense: The Rhetoric of Popular Democracy (LP)
Background on the Patriot Attitude Toward the Monarchy (LP)
Died 1963- Robert Frost, US poet
Poems That Tell a Story: Narrative and Persona in the Poetry of Robert Frost (LP)
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Born 1882- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President
“The Proper Application of Overwhelming Force”: The United States in World War II (LP)
Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs (LP)
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1865- Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in US
Attitudes Toward Emancipation (LP)
Families in Bondage (LP)
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