December 2009

1
1955—Rosa Parks arrested; initiated the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement (LP)

We the People Bookshelf:
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (WTP)

(19b) Selma to Montgomery march (PA)


The History of Jim Crow (W)

2
1823—President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine"
The President's Roles and Responsibilities: Understanding the President's Job (LP)

3
1755—Born, Gilbert Stuart, American painter
An Introduction to the Relationship Between Composition and Content in the Visual Arts (LP)
(3b) George Washington, The Landsdowne Portrait, Picturing America (W)

Portraits, Pears, and Perfect Landscapes: Investigating Genre in the Visual Arts (LP)

1847—Frederick Douglass and Martin R Delaney begin anti-slavery paper The North Star
From Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography (LP)

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1842—Born, Sioux chief Ta-sunko-witko (Crazy Horse)
We the People Bookshelf (WTP)

Life on the Great Plains (LP)
Native American History (W)

1942—FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration
Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs (LP)


18b Migrant Mother, 1936 (PA) (W)

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1791—Died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer Mozart Forum (W)

New York Philharmonic for Kids Zone (W)

1848—President Polk confirms California gold discovery 8a Looking Down Yosemite, California, 1865 (PA)
Gold Rush! California's Untold Stories (W)

1933—End of Prohibition
U.S. History: The Great Depression (LP)

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1877—Thomas Edison made the first sound recording into his newly invented phonograph
Thomas Edison’s Inventions in the 1900’s and today: From “New” to You! (LP)
Thomas A. Edison Papers (W)

1926, died—Claude Monet, impressionist painter.
Realistic Impressions: Investigating Movements in the Visual Arts (LP)

12b, Portrait of a Boy, 1890 (PA)

An Introduction to the Relationship Between Composition and Content in the Visual Arts (LP)

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1928—Born, Willa Cather, American author
We the People Bookshelf
O Pioneers! (WTP)


Pioneer Values in Willa Cather’s My Antonia (LP)

1941—Japan attacks Pearl Harbor; U.S. declares war on Japan
The Road to Pearl Harbor

Turning the Tide in the Pacific, 1941-1943 (LP)

Victory in the Pacific, 1943-1945 (LP)

8
1765—Born, Eli Whitney inventor (Cotton Gin)
Factory vs. Plantation in the North and South (LP)

9
Born 1608—John Milton, poet/puritan
“World enough, and time”—Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress (LP)

10
1830—Born, Emily Dickinson, American poet
“Leap, plashless”: Emily Dickinson and Poetic Imagination (LP)
Letters from Emily Dickinson: ‘Will you be my preceptor?’ (LP)


Animating Poetry: Reading Poems About the Natural World (LP) (LP)

1898—Spanish- American War ends.
Great American Speeches (W)

11
1803—Born, Hector Berlioz, French composer
New York Philharmonic KidZone (W)


French Connections (LP)

12
1800—Washington, DC established as U.S. capital.
From the White House of Yesterday to the White House of Today (LP)

13
The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Courage (LP)

We the People Bookshelf (WTP):
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane

1862—Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg
The American Civil War: “A Terrible Swift Sword” (LP)

14
1799—George Washington died in his Mt. Vernon home
George Washington: The Living Symbol (LP)
3b, George Washington, by Gilbert Stuart, 1796 (PA)

15
1791—The new United States confirmed the fundamental rights of its citizens by adopting the Bill of Rights
Freedom by the Fireside: The Legacy of FDR’s “Four Freedoms” Speech (LP)
19a Rockwell, 19b Selma March (PA)

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1770—Born, Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer
DSO Kids, Dallas Symphony Orchestra (W)

1773—Boston Tea Party
Revolutionary Tea Parties and the Reasons for Revolution (LP)
The Boston Tea Party: Costume Optional? (LP)

1775—Born, Jane Austen, English novelist
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: The Novel as a Historical Source (LP)

17
1903—Wright Brothers 1st flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
“Fly Girls”: Women Aviators in World War II (LP)

The U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission (W)

18
1865—13th Amendment to U.S. Constitution ratified, abolishing slavery
Attitudes Toward Emancipation (LP)

19
15a American Landscape, 1930, Charles Scheeler (PA)
Picturing America

1732—Benjamin Franklin began publishing “Poor Richard’s Almanac”
Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Library (W)
4b Hiram Powers, Benjamin Franklin, 1862 (PA)

1849— Born, Henry Clay Frick—built world's largest coke & steel operation
The Industrial Age in America: Sweatshops, Steel Mills, and Factories (LP)

Born 1790—Sir William Parry, Arctic explorer
Kennewick Man: Science and Sacred Rights (LP)

20
The Captain’s Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe—Ronald Smith (WTP)
We the People Bookshelf

1803—Louisiana Purchase formalized
On This Day With Lewis and Clark (LP)
Lewis & Clark, The Journal of the Corps of Discovery (W)

Exploring the West from Monticello (W)

21
1375—Died, Giovanni Boccaccio Italian poet
The Path of the Black Death (LP)

1940—Died, F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer
The “Secret Society” and Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (LP)

Student Interactive
Interactive Map of the Path of the Black Death

22
Born 1744—Abigail Adams, 2nd first lady (1797-1801)
Remember the Ladies: The First Ladies (LP)

23
Across America on an Emigrant Train—Jim Murphy (WTP)
We the People Bookshelf

1907—1st all-steel passenger railroad coach completed, Altoona PA
I Hear the Locomotives: The Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad (LP)

24
1814—Treaty of Ghent (end of the War of 1812) signed
President Madison's 1812 War Message (LP)

25
Christmas
Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus
The Gift of Holiday Traditions: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas

1776—George Washington's army crosses the Delaware and defeats Hessians at Trenton
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? (LP)

4a Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851 (PA)
Picturing America

26
1492—1st Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus
Other Worlds: The Voyage of Columbus (LP)

Picturing America
1b Mission Nuestra Señora de la Concepción (PA)


Mission Nuestra Señora de la Concepción and the Spanish Mission in the New World (PA) (LP)

27
1571—Born, Johannes Kepler, German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer
Galileo and the Inevitability of Ideas (LP)

28
1856—Born, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States
Woodrow Wilson and Foreign Policy (LP)

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2006—New Year's Eve
1879—Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp
Thomas Edison’s Inventions in the 1900s and Today: From “New” to You! (LP)