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1924—Indian Citizenship Act:
Not 'Indians,' Many Tribes: Native American Diversity (LP)
Native American Cultures (LP)
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From the White House of Yesterday to the White House of Today (LP)
1954 Senator Joseph McCarthy charges Communists in CIA
The Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy (LP)
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1861 Senator Stephen A. Douglas dies
Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 (LP)
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1942 Battle of Midway begins
Turning the Tide in the Pacific, 1941-1943 (LP)
Congress Passes the 19th Amendment
Voting Rights for Women: Pro and Anti Suffrage (LP)
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1851—Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, appears in serial form
Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture (W)
Slave Narratives:
Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources (LP)
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1944—Anniversary of "D-Day," invasion of Normandy.
Victory in Europe, 1944-1945 (LP)
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1917—Poet Gwendolyn Brooks born
Enjambment and Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool” (LP)
Academy of American Poets (W)
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*This Month's Feature
1789—James Madison proposed the Bill of Rights
Regulating Freedom of Speech (LP)
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Picturing America
Picturing America (W)
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1752 Benjamin Franklin flies kit during thunderstorm
300 Years of Benjamin Franklin (LP)
Benjamin Franklin
Picturing America (PA)
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1776 Congress appoints Committee of Five to draft Declaration of Independence
(LP)
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1898—Revolutionary leader Emilio Aguinaldo declared the independence of the Philippine islands from US
AskAsia (W)
1929—Anne Frank born
Anne Frank: Writer (LP)
Anne Frank: One of Hundreds of Thousands (LP)
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1900—China's Boxer Rebellion
Asia Source (W)
Animals of the Chinese Zodiac (LP)
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Oh Say, Can You See
What the Star-Spangled Banner Means? (LP)
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1215—King John puts his seal to Magna Carta
Magna Carta:Cornerstone of the U.S. Constitution (LP)
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1858 Abraham Lincoln's delivers "House Divided" speech
Abraham Lincoln, the 1860 Election, and the Future of the American Union and Slavery (LP)
Alexander Gardner/Abraham Lincoln (PA)
Picturing America
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1885 Statue of Liberty arrives in New York City harbor
The Statute of Liberty: Bringing the 'New Colossus' to America (LP)
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1964—Civil Rights Act passed
Competing Voices of the Civil Rights Movement (LP)
James Karales (PA)
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Picturing America
Picturing America (W)
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1936—Jesse Owens of the US sets 100 meter record at 10.2
Live From Ancient Olympia! (LP)
The Berlin Olympics (W)
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1731—Martha Washington born on this day
National First Ladies Library (W)
Remember the Ladies: First Ladies (LP)
Women in the White House (LP)
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1944—G.I. Bill of Rights signed into law
(Link to forthcoming CCNY lesson on postwar America)
American Studies at the University of Virginia (W)
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Picturing America
Educators Resources
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1842—Ambrose Bierce born
Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce and the Unreliable Narrator (LP)
1675 King Philip's War begins
Mapping Colonial New England (LP)
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Battle of Little Big Horn, 1876
Black Hawk, “Sans Arc Lakota” Ledger Book, 1880–1881 (PA)
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1945—UN Charter Day
The United Nations (W)
1950—President Truman Orders Military into Korean War
“Police Action”: The Korean War, 1950-1963 (LP)
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1880 Born—Helen Keller
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1914—Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria at Sarajevo; WWI begins
The Great War: Evaluating the Treaty of Versailles (LP)
Great War Primary Documents Archive (W)
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Yosemite Valley Act, 1864
Albert Bierstadt, Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California, 1865 (PA)
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