November 2003

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LEGEND:  (W) = Website Feature  (LP) = Lesson Plan

  
1

Saturday

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

Sunday
3

Monday

1783—Washington orders the Continental Army disbanded
George Washington: The Living Symbol (LP)
4

Tuesday

1922—Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt
Egyptian Symbols and Figures: Hieroglyphs (LP)

Egyptian Symbols and Figures: Scroll Paintings (LP)
5

Wednesday

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

Thursday

1813—Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain
Conquistadors (W)
7

Friday

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

Saturday
9

Sunday

1938—"Kristallnacht" (Crystal Night): Nazi Stormtroopers attack Jews
The US Holocaust Museum (W)

Holocaust and Resistance (LP)
10

Monday

1808—Osage Treaty signed
New Perspectives on the West—Events (W)
11

Tuesday

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

Wednesday

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

Thursday

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

Friday


Anishinabe - Ojibwe - Chippewa: Culture of an Indian Nation (LP)
15

Saturday
16

Sunday

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

Monday
18

Tuesday

1865—Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
Mark Twain and American Humor (LP)
19

Wednesday

1863—Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address
We Must Not Be Enemies: Lincoln's First Inaugural Address  (LP)
20

Thursday

1789—New Jersey becomes 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights
The Constitutional Convention: Four Founding Fathers You May Never Have Met (LP)
21

Friday

1789—North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state
The Constitutional Convention: What the Founding Fathers Said (LP)
22

Saturday

1963—President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, TX
The American President (W)

Born 1819—George Eliot, English novelist
Victorian Web (W)
23

Sunday
24

Monday

1958—Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community
Trekking to Timbuktu (LP)

Learner.org: Mali and Songhai (W)
25

Tuesday
26

Wednesday

1865—Alice in Wonderland published
Childhood Through the Looking-Glass (LP)

A Trip to Wonderland (LP)
27

Thursday

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

Friday

Born 1757—William Blake, English poet and painter
William Blake Archive (W)
29

Saturday

1864—Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne Indians, Colorado
New Perspectives on the West (W)
30

Sunday

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)