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October 2008 |
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LEGEND: (W) = Website Feature (LP) = Lesson Plan |
| 1 | Wednesday1908—Henry Ford introduces Model T into the marketWas There An Industrial Revolution? New Workplace, New Technology, New Consumers (LP) |
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| 2 | ThursdayBorn 1869—Mahatma GandhiMartin 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) Born 1879—Poet Wallace Stevens Thirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem (LP) |
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| 3 | Friday1895— The Red Badge of Courage publishedThe Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Courage (LP) The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Realism (LP) |
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| 4 | Saturday1636—First North American legal code instituted in Plymouth ColonyPlymouth Colony: Archive Project (W) |
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| 5 | Sunday1877—Chief Joseph surrenders to U.S. soldiersPortrait of a Hero (LP) |
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| 6 | Monday 1889—Thomas Edison shows first motion picture Thomas Edison's Inventions in the 1900s and Today (LP) 1930—William Faulkner As I Lay Dying published Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying: Form of a Funeral (LP) |
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| 7 | TuesdayDied 1849— Edgar Allan PoeEdgar 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) |
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| 8 | Wednesday1871—Great Fire destroys much of ChicagoEvaluating Eyewitness Reports (LP) Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory (W) |
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| 9 | Thursday1002—Leif Ericson lands in North AmericaArctic Studies Center (Vikings: The North American Saga) (W) 1776—Spanish missionaries settle in present-day San Francisco Web de Anza (W) |
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| 10 | Friday1951—Harry Truman signs Mutual Security Act“Police Action”: The Korean War, 1950-1953 (LP) |
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| 11 | SaturdayBorn 1884—Eleanor RooseveltRemember the Ladies: The First Ladies (LP) Died 1965—Depression-era photographer Dorothea Lange Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs (LP) |
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| 12 | SundayWhat Was Columbus Thinking? (LP) Other Worlds: The Voyage of Columbus (LP) |
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| 13 | Monday1792—Cornerstone of White House laidA President's Home and the President's House (LP) How Was the White House Designed? (LP) |
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| 14 | TuesdayBorn 1890—President Dwight D. EisenhowerThe American President (W) Born 1894—e e cummings Recognizing Similes: Fast as a Whip (LP) Modern American Poetry (W) |
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| 15 | Wednesday Born 70 B.C.—Virgil VRoma (W) Perseus Project (W) Latin Literature (W) Born 1844—Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (W) |
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| 16 | Thursday1854—Abraham Lincoln speaks out against repeal of Kansas -Nebraska ActThe Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854: Popular Sovereignty and the Political Polarization over Slavery (LP) 1859— John Brown leads raid on Harper's Ferry Attitudes Toward Emancipation (LP) |
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| 17 | Friday1777—Patriot victory at SaratogaBackground on the Patriot Attitude Toward the Monarchy(LP) The War in the North, 1775-1778 (LP) Born 1915— Arthur Miller Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's The Crucible (LP) |
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| 18 | Saturday1898— U.S. troops take over Puerto RicoLa Familia(LP) A Collector's Vision of Puerto Rico (LP) Dies 1931—Thomas Alva Edison Thomas Edison’s Inventions in the 1900s and Today: From “New” to You! (LP) |
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| 19 | Sunday1781—End of Revolutionary WarAmerican Colonial Life in the Late 1700s: Distant Cousins (LP) |
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| 20 | Monday1803—Senate ratifies Louisiana PurchaseOn This Day With Lewis and Clark(LP) Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (W) |
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| 21 | Tuesday1879—Thomas Edison unveils working light bulbThomas A. Edison Papers(W) 1960—Final round of televised debates between JFK and Nixon The President's Roles & Responsibilities (LP) Born 1772—Samuel Coleridge http://www.rc.umd.edu/ (W) |
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| 22 | Wednesday1962—John F. Kennedy announces blockade of CubaWhat Happens in the White House? (LP) |
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| 23 | Thursday1915—25,000 women march in New York demanding right to voteVoting Rights for Women: Pro- and Anti-Suffrage (LP) |
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| 24 | Friday1861—First transcontinental telegraph system was completed, making it possible to transmit messages rapidly.Was There an Industrial Revolution? New Workplace, New Technology, New Consumers (LP) |
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| 25 | Saturday1415—Battle of AgincourtWitnesses to Joan of Arc and The Hundred Years' War (LP) Not Everyone Lived in Castles During the Middle Ages(LP) Died 1400—Geoffrey Chaucer Chaucer's Wife of Bath (LP) Born 1881—Pablo Picasso Color Me Happy: Color, Mood and Tone (LP) |
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| 26 | Sunday1776—Benjamin Franklin goes to France on diplomatic missionThree Hundred Years of Benjamin Franklin (W) |
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| 27 | Monday1787—First of the Federalist Papers publishedBefore and Beyond the Constitution: Chief Executives Compared: The Federalist Papers (LP) Born 1932—Sylvia Plath The Academy of American Poets (W) |
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| 28 | Tuesday1886—Statue of Liberty dedicatedThe Statue of Liberty: Meaning and Use of a National Symbol(LP) The Statue of Liberty: Bringing the 'New Colossus' to America (LP) |
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| 29 | WednesdayBorn 1837—Quilt artist Harriet PowersStories in Quilts(LP) 1929—"Black Tuesday"; Great Depression begins Dust Bowl Days (LP) |
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| 30 | ThursdayBorn 1735— John Adams, second President of the United StatesLike Father, Like Son: Presidential Families (LP) |
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| 31 | FridayThis 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 Romantic Circles (W) |
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