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April 2009 |
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1 | WednesdayA Story of Epic Proportions: What makes a Poem an Epic? (LP)Writing Poetry Like the Pros (LP) 1873 Born - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian pianist and composer New York Philaharmonic Kid Zone (W) |
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2 | Thursday1834 Born—Frederic-Auguste Bertholdi, Statue of Liberty sculptorThe Statue of Liberty: The Meaning and Use of a National Symbol (LP) 1805 Born - Hans Christian Anderson, fairy tale author Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales (LP) |
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3 | Friday1783 Born—Washington IrvingThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow (LP) 1948 President Harry S. Truman signed into law the European Recovery Program (known as the Marshall Plan) Origins of the Cold War Unit (LP) |
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4 | Saturday1928 Born—Maya AngelouIntroducing Metaphors Through Poetry (LP) Academy of American Poets (W) 1968—Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King's Dream (LP) |
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5 | Sunday1614 John Rolfe and Pocahontas married in the English colony of Jamestown, VirginiaImages of the New World (LP) Children's Day—S. Korea & Japan Common Visions, Common Voices (LP) Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington (LP) 1856 Born—Booker T. Washington African-American Soldiers After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed? (LP) American Studies at University of Virginia (W) |
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6 | Monday1806 Born—Elizabeth Barrett BrowningVictorian Web (W) 1917 US declares war on Germany, enters World War I Introduction to Modernist Poetry (LP) Poetry of The Great War: 'From Darkness to Light'? (LP) |
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7 | Tuesday1770 Born—William WordsworthRomantic 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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8 | Wednesday1935—Works Progress Administration approved by CongressWorth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs (LP) |
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9 | Thursday1812 Born—Charles BaudelaireCharles Baudelaire: The Poet of Sickness and Evil (LP) Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy (LP) |
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10 | Friday1925—F Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great GatsbyThe “Secret Society” and FitzGerald's The Great Gatsby (LP) 1933 - Civilian Conservation Corp established by FDR African-Americans and the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps (ALA) |
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11 | Saturday1968—Civil Rights Act of 1968We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement (W) |
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12 | Sunday1633 Galileo Galilei was put on trial by the InquisitionGalileo and the Inevitability of Ideas (LP) 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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13 | Monday1743 Born—Thomas JeffersonJefferson vs. Franklin: Renaissance Men (LP) Jefferson vs. Franklin: Revolutionary Philosophers (LP) 1939 Born - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet (ALA) |
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14 | TuesdayPicture Lincoln (LP) Picturing America (PA) (ALA) President Lincoln is shot. HarpWeek (W) |
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15 | Wednesday1843 Born—Henry JamesAmerican Collection: An Educator's Site (W) Born 1452—Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci: Creative Genius (LP) |
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16 | Thursday1947 The term "Cold War" is coined by Bernard BaruchThe Origins of the Cold War (LP) (ALA) The Poet's Voice: Langston Hughes and You (LP) |
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17 | Friday1790—Benjamin Franklin, dies at 84Jefferson vs. Franklin: Renaissance Men (LP) 1897 Thornton Wilder born Thorton Wilder's Our Town: the Reader as Writer (ALA) |
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18 | Saturday1775—Paul Revere & William Dawes warn "the British are coming!"Not Only Paul Revere: Other Riders of the American Revolution (LP) Midnight Ride of Paul Revere: Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License (LP) Picturing America (PA) (ALA) |
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19 | Sunday1775—Battle of Lexington & Concord—American RevolutionColonial Broadsides and the American Revolution (LP) 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Holocaust and Resistance (LP) |
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20 | Monday1841 First detective story published by Edgar Allen Poe "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"Lesson: Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce and the Unreliable Narrator (LP) |
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21 | Tuesday1816 Born—Charlotte BronteVictorian Web (W) Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine (LP) 753 B.C. Rome Founded Virtual Rome (W) (ALA) |
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22 | Wednesday1370—Bastille begins being built in Paris FranceLiberty, 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) 1873 Writer Ellen Glasgow is born Documenting the American South (ALA) |
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23 | Thursday1564 Born—William Shakespeare1616 Died—William Shakespeare Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and the "Dagger of the Mind" (LP) Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and the Motives of Evil (LP) William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: Conflict Resolution and Happy Endings (LP) |
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24 | Friday1800 Library of Congress establishedLibrary of Congress(W) (ALA) 1947 Willa Cather dies Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's My Antonia (LP) |
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25 | Saturday1925 Born—Flannery O'Connor“Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find': Who's the Real Misfit?” (LP) Documenting the American South (W) 1918 Born—Ella Fitzgerald, "first lady of song" Jazz and World War II: A Rally to Resistance, A Catalyst for Victory (LP) |
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26 | Sunday1607—Jamestown colonists land at Cape Henry VAVirtual Jamestown (W) Jamestown Changes (LP) 121 A.D. Born - Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and author of philosophical work Meditations (ALA) |
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27 | Monday1791 Born—Samuel Morse, inventor of the first operational telegraph system.The National Gallery of Art (W) |
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28 | Tuesday1758 James Monroe bornThe Monroe Doctrine: Origins & Early American Foreign Policy (L) (ALA) 1926 Born—Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird author Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (LP) |
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29 | Wednesday1899 Born—Duke EllingtonJAM: Jazz Appreciation Month (W) |
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30 | Thursday1789 George Washington was sworn in as the first President of the United States of AmericaGeorge Washington: The Precedent President (LP) 1975—End of Vietnam War Eyewitness to History (LP) |
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