| LEGEND: (W) = Website Feature (LP) = Lesson Plan (PA) = Picturing America (WTP) = We the People Bookshelf |
| M |
TU |
W |
TH |
F |
SA/SU |
| |
|
|
|
|
1
1986—First National War Monument for Native Americans dedicated
Not 'Indians,' Many Tribes: Native American Diversity (LP)
79—Mt. Vesuvius buries Pompeii
In Old Pompeii (LP)
|
2
|
3
1783—Washington orders the Continental Army disbanded
George Washington: The Living Symbol (LP)
|
4
1922—Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt
Egyptian Symbols and Figures: Hieroglyphs (LP)
Egyptian Symbols and Figures: Scroll Paintings (LP)
|
5
1492—Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from the Indians of Cuba
What Was Columbus Thinking? (LP)
Native American Cultures Across the U.S. (LP)
|
6
1813—Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain
Conquistadors (W)
|
7
1811—Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen. William Henry Harrison routs Indians
Map of Tippecanoe Battle (from American Memory Collection) (W)
1917—Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
Bucknell Russian Studies Department (W)
|
8
|
9
1938—"Kristallnacht" (Crystal Night): Nazi Stormtroopers attack Jews
The US Holocaust Museum (W)
Holocaust and Resistance (LP)
|
10
1808—Osage Treaty signed
New Perspectives on the West—Events (W)
|
11
1918—World War I Armistice (Veterans Day)
The Great War: Evaluating the Treaty of Versailles (LP)
United States Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology (LP)
|
12
Born 1815—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, suffragist
Who Were the Foremothers of Women’s Equality? (LP)
Women’s Equality: Changing Attitudes and Beliefs (LP)
Cultural Change (LP)
|
13
1839—1st US antislavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY
Slave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources (LP)
African-American Communities in the North Before the Civil War (LP)
|
14
Anishinabe - Ojibwe - Chippewa: Culture of an Indian Nation (LP)
|
15
|
16
1864—Union General William T. Sherman sets fire to Atlanta, begins March to the Sea
Before Brother Fought Brother: Life in the North and South 1847-1861 (LP)
Born 1930—Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Teaching Through the Novel (LP)
|
17
|
18
1865—Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
Mark Twain and American Humor (LP)
|
19
1863—Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address
We Must Not Be Enemies: Lincoln's First Inaugural Address (LP)
|
20
1789—New Jersey becomes 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights
The Constitutional Convention: Four Founding Fathers You May Never Have Met (LP)
|
21
1789—North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state
The Constitutional Convention: What the Founding Fathers Said (LP)
|
22
1963—President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, TX
The American President (W)
Born 1819—George Eliot, English novelist
Victorian Web (W)
|
23
|
24
1958—Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community
Trekking to Timbuktu (LP)
Learner.org: Mali and Songhai (W)
|
25
|
26
1865—Alice in Wonderland published
Childhood Through the Looking-Glass (LP)
A Trip to Wonderland (LP)
|
27
1095—Pope Urban II proclaims First Crusade at Council of Clermont
The End of Europe's Middle Ages: The Crusades (W)
Not Everyone Lived in Castles During the Middle Ages (LP)
Thanksgiving observed as U.S. Holiday
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project (W)
|
28
Born 1757—William Blake, English poet and painter
William Blake Archive (W)
|
29
1864—Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne Indians, Colorado
New Perspectives on the West (W)
|
30
Born 1667—Jonathan Swift, author
Gulliver's Travels (W)
Born 1835—Mark Twain, author
Critical Ways of Seeing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Context (LP)
|
