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National Poetry Month
Writing Poetry Like the Pros (LP)
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1834 Born—Frederic-Auguste Bertholdi, Statue of Liberty sculptor
The Statue of Liberty: The Meaning and Use of a National Symbol (LP)
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1783 Born—Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (LP)
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1968—Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. King's Dream (LP)
1928 Born—Maya Angelou
Academy of American Poets (W)
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1856 Born—Booker T. Washington
American Studies at University of Virginia (W)
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1770 Born—William Wordsworth
Romantic Circles (W)
1917 Born—Billie Holiday
Jazz and World War II: A Rally to Resistance, A Catalyst for Victory (LP)
Learning the Blues (LP)
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1935—Works Progress Administration approved by Congress
Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs (LP)
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Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes:
Poems for a Democracy (LP)
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1925—F Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby
The “Secret Society” and FitzGerald's The Great Gatsby (LP)
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1968—Civil Rights Act of 1968
We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement (W)
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1861—Civil War begins at Fort Sumter in Charleston, SC
Before Brother Fought Brother: Life in the North and South 1847-1861 (LP)
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1743 Born—Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson vs. Franklin: Renaissance Men (LP)
Jefferson vs. Franklin: Revolutionary Philosophers (LP)
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1843 Born—Henry James
American Collection: An Educator's Site (W)
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1862 Slavery abolished in District of Columbia
Attitudes Toward Emancipation (LP)
The Poet's Voice:
Langston Hughes and You (LP)
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1790—Benjamin Franklin, dies at 84
Jefferson vs. Franklin: Renaissance Men (LP)
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1775—Paul Revere & William Dawes warn "the British are coming!"
Not Only Paul Revere: Other Riders of the American Revolution (LP)
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1775—Battle of Lexington & Concord-American Revolution
Colonial Broadsides and the American Revolution (LP)
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1816 Born—Charlotte Bronte
Victorian Web (W)
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1370—Bastille begins being built in Paris France
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution (W)
1451 Born—Isabella I of Castile, Queen of Spain (1479-1504), patron of Columbus
Other Worlds: The Voyages of Columbus (LP)
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1564 Born—William Shakespeare
1616 Died—William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and the (LP)
Shakespeare's Macbeth:
Fear and the Motives of Evil (LP)
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1905 Born—Robert Penn Warren
Modern American Poetry (W)
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1925 Born—Flannery O'Connor
Documenting the American South (W)
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1607—Jamestown colonists land at Cape Henry VA
Virtual Jamestown (W)
Jamestown Changes (LP)
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1926 Born—Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird author
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (LP)
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1899 Born—Duke Ellington
JAM: Jazz Appreciation Month (W)
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1975—End of Vietnam War
Eyewitness to History (LP)
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