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1914World War I erupts in Europe Poetry of the Great War: From Darkness to Light (LP)
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1776—The Declaration of Independence is formally signed
“An Expression of the American Mind”: Understanding the Declaration of Independence(LP)
Declare the Causes: The Declaration of Independence (LP)
Hiram Powers/Benjamin Franklin Picturing America (PA)
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1492—Christopher Columbus begins his voyage
Other Worlds:
The Voyage of Columbus (LP) What Was Columbus Thinking? (LP)
N.C. Wyeth/The Last of the Mohicans Picturing America (PA)
N.C. Wyeth/The Last of the Mohicans Picturing America (PA)
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1901Louis Armstrong born Learning the Blues (LP)
1914United States declares neutrality in WWI United States Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology (LP)
1944—Anne Frank captured Anne Frank: One of Hundreds of Thousands (LP)
Childe Hassam/Allies Day, May 1917 Picturing America (PA)
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1850Writers Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville meet Hawthorne: Author and Narrator (LP)
1884Cornerstone laid for Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty:
Bringing the 'New Colossus' to America
(LP)
The Statue of Liberty: The Meaning and Use of a National Symbol (LP)
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1787First draft of the Constitution debated The Constitutional Convention: What the Founding Fathers Said (LP)
1945—The first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan “The Proper Application of Overwhelming Force”: The United States in World War II (LP)
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1782George Washington creates the Order of the Purple Heart What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? (LP)
1964Gulf of Tonkin resolution passes Recalling the Vietnam War (W)
Gilbert Stuart/George Washington (Landsdowne Portrait) Picturing America (PA)
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1945United Nations charter signed. The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations (LP)
1974—President Richard Nixon resigns Constitutional Issues: Watergate and the Constitution (W)
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1936—African-American track star Jesse Owens wins unprecedented fourth gold medal at Olympic games Live from Ancient Olympia! (LP)
1945—Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan Victory in the Pacific, 1943-1945 (LP)
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1846Congress establishes the Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian National Museum of American History (W)
1862For the first time, Emily Dickinson sends her poems to her editor, T.W. Higginson, for review Letters from Emily Dickinson: 'Will you be my preceptor?' (LP)
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1919Andrew Carnegie dies
The Industrial Age in America: Robber Barons and Captains of Industry (LP)
The Industrial Age in America: Sweatshops, Steel Mills, and Factories (LP)
Charles Sheeler/American Landscape Picturing America (PA)
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1877Thomas A. Edison said to complete model of first phonograph Thomas Edison’s Inventions in the 1900s and Today: From “New” to You! (LP)
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1521—Aztec capital falls to Cortez
The Aztecs — Mighty Warriors of Mexico (LP)
Conquistadors (W)
1818Women’s rights pioneer Lucy Stone is born
Who Were the Foremothers of Women’s Equality? (LP)
Women’s Equality: Changing Attitudes and Beliefs (LP)
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1848Congress creates Oregon territory
Go West: Imagining the Oregon Trail (LP)
If You Were a Pioneer on the Oregon Trail (LP)
1935—Social Security Act passes
Worth a Thousand Words:
Depression-Era Photographs
(LP)
New Deal Network (W)
Albert Bierstadt/Looking Down Yosemite Valley Picturing America (PA)
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1057King Macbeth of Scotland is slain by son of King Duncan
Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and the “Dagger of the Mind” (LP)
Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and the Motives of Evil (LP)
1769Napoleon Bonaparte is born Napoleon (W)
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1863Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation Attitudes Toward Emancipation (LP)
1896—First major discovery of gold in Alaska, sparking the Klondike Gold Rush.
Metaphorical Gold: Mining the Gold Rush for Stories (LP)
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1786Davy Crockett is born Born on a Mountaintop?: Davy Crocket, Tall Tales, and History (LP)
1786Davy Crockett is born Born on a Mountaintop?: Davy Crocket, Tall Tales, and History (LP)
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1774—Explorer Meriwether Lewis is born On This Day With Lewis and Clark (LP)
1894—Congress creates Bureau of Immigration
Where I Come From (LP)
Pearl S. Buck: “On Discovering America” (LP)
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1958NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City lunch counters
Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement (LP)
We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement (W)
James Karales/ Selma-to-Montgomery March for Voting Rights in 1965 Picturing America (PA)
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1858—Famed Lincoln-Douglas debates begin The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854: Popular Sovereignty and the Political Polarization over Slavery (LP)
1866—Newly formed National Labor Union calls on Congress to mandate eight-hour workday Was There an Industrial Revolution? New Workplace, New Technology, New Consumers (LP)
1964—President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement (LP)
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1831Nat Turner leads rebellion of slaves in Virginia Slave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources (LP)
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1864International Red Cross founded. Images at War (LP)
Winslow Homer/The Veteran in a New Field Picturing America (PA)
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1904Author Kate Chopin dies. Kate Chopin's The Awakening: No Choice but Under? (LP)
1939—Hitler-Stalin Pact How Grand Was the Grand Alliance? (LP)
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1814—British capture and burn Washington after Battle of Bladensburg President Madison's 1812 War Message (LP)
1954Congress passes Communist Control Act The Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy (LP)
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1892Stephen Crane is fired from his job as reporter for New York Tribune The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Realism (LP)
Born 1819Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton Detective agency The Industrial Age in America: Sweatshops, Steel Mills, and Factories (LP)
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1920 – The Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women’s suffrage, is adopted
Voting Rights for Women: Pro- and Anti-Suffrage (LP)
Women’s Suffrage: Why the West First? (LP)
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1789—The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen is signed in France
French Connections (LP)
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution (W)
1941—Prince Fumimaro Konoye, Prime Minister of Japan, invites President Roosevelt to meet with him.
Turning the Tide in the Pacific, 1941-1943 (LP) Victory in the Pacific, 1943-1945 (LP)
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Martin Luther King and NonViolent Resistance (LP)
Martin Luther King and NonViolent Resistance (LP)
1963—Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers “I have a dream” speech on steps of Lincoln memorial
Dr. King's Dream
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Let Freedom Ring:
The Life & Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
(LP)
Martin Luther King, Jr., (LP)
James Karales/Selma-to-Montgomery March for Voting Rights in 1965 Picturing America (PA)
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1533Pizarro executes last Incan Emperor Couriers in the Inca Empire: Getting Your Message Across (LP)
1758First U.S. Indian reservation established Not 'Indians,' Many Tribes: Native American Diversity (LP)
1786Shay’s rebellion begins Before and Beyond the Constitution: The President Under the Articles of Confederation (LP)
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1862Second Battle of Manassas ends Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: the Sweep of the Universe (LP)
1967Thurgood Marshall confirmed as first African-American Supreme Court Justice Oyez Project: A Supreme Court Multimedia Database (W)
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1862The Congressional Medal of Honor is established
What Makes a Hero? (LP)
Portrait of a Hero (LP)
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