October 2004

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

  
1

Friday

1908—Henry Ford introduces Model T into the market
Was There An Industrial Revolution? New Workplace, New Technology, New Consumers (LP)
2

Saturday

Born 1869—Mahatma Gandhi
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Power of Nonviolence (LP)

Born 1800—Nat Turner
Documenting the American South (North American Slave Narratives) (W)

Eye of the Civil War: People and Places (LP)
3

Sunday

1895— The Red Badge of Courage published
The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Courage (LP)

The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Realism (LP)
4

Monday

1636—First North American legal code instituted in Plymouth Colony
Plymouth Colony: Archive Project (W)
5

Tuesday

1877—Chief Joseph surrenders to U.S. soldiers
Portrait of a Hero (LP)
6

Wednesday


1889—Thomas Edison shows first motion picture

Thomas Edison's Inventions in the 1900s and Today (LP)
7

Thursday

Died 1849— Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Narrator (LP)
Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers(LP)

1765—Stamp Act Congress convenes in New York
Colonial Broadsides and the American Revolution (LP)
8

Friday

1871—Great Fire destroys much of Chicago
Evaluating Eyewitness Reports (LP)

Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory (W)
9

Saturday

1002—Leif Ericson lands in North America
Arctic Studies Center (Vikings: The North American Saga) (W)

1776—Spanish missionaries settle in present-day San Francisco
Web de Anza (W)
10

Sunday
11

Monday

Died 1965—Depression-era photographer Dorothea Lange
Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs (LP)
12

Tuesday

COLUMBUS DAY
What Was Columbus Thinking? (LP)

Other Worlds: The Voyage of Columbus (LP)
13

Wednesday

1792—Cornerstone of White House laid
A President's Home and the President's House (LP)
How Was the White House Designed? (LP)
14

Thursday

Born 1894—e e cummings
Writing Poetry Like Pros (LP)

Modern American Poetry (W)
15

Friday


Born 70 B.C.—Virgil
VRoma (W)
Perseus Project (W)
Latin Literature (W)
16

Saturday

1859— John Brown leads raid on Harper's Ferry
Attitudes Toward Emancipation (LP)
17

Sunday

1777—Patriot victory at Saratoga
Background on the Patriot Attitude Toward the Monarchy(LP)

Born 1915— Arthur Miller
Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's The Crucible  (LP)
18

Monday

1898— U.S. troops take over Puerto Rico
La Familia(LP)

A Collector's Vision of Puerto Rico (LP)
19

Tuesday

1781—End of Revolutionary War
American Colonial Life in the Late 1700s: Distant Cousins (LP)
20

Wednesday

1803—Senate ratifies Louisiana Purchase
On This Day With Lewis and Clark(LP)

Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (W)
21

Thursday

1879—Thomas Edison unveils working light bulb
Thomas A. Edison Papers(W)

1960—Final round of televised debates between JFK and Nixon
The President's Roles & Responsibilities (LP)
22

Friday

1962—John F. Kennedy announces blockade of Cuba
What Happens in the White House? (LP)
23

Saturday

1915—25,000 women march in New York demanding right to vote
Voting Rights for Women: Pro- and Anti-Suffrage (LP)
24

Sunday
25

Monday

1415—Battle of Agincourt
Not Everyone Lived in Castles During the Middle Ages(LP)

Died 1400—Geoffrey Chaucer
Chaucer's Wife of Bath(LP)
Chaucer's Wife of Bath (LP)
26

Tuesday
27

Wednesday

1787—First of the Federalist Papers published
Before and Beyond the Constitution: Chief Executives Compared: The Federalist Papers (LP)

Born 1932—Sylvia Plath
The Academy of American Poets (W)
28

Thursday

1886—Statue of Liberty dedicated
The Statue of Liberty: Meaning and Use of a National Symbol(LP)


The Statue of Liberty: Bringing the 'New Colossus' to America (LP)
29

Friday

Born 1837—Quilt artist Harriet Powers
Stories in Quilts(LP)

1929—"Black Tuesday"; Great Depression begins
Dust Bowl Days (LP)
30

Saturday

Born 1735— John Adams
Like Father, Like Son: Presidential Families (LP)
31

Sunday

HALLOWEEN

This month's feature: Not Just Halloween: Festivals of the Dead from around the World

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow(LP)

Born 1795—John Keats
Listening to Poetry: Sou
Romantic Circles (W)