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November 2009 |
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National Native American Heritage Month
| 1 | Sunday1986—First National War Monument for Native Americans dedicatedNot 'Indians,' Many Tribes: Native American Diversity (LP) Born 1871—Stephen Crane The Open Boat (LP) |
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| 2 | Monday1948—Harry Truman elected President“Police Action:” The Korean War (LP) |
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| 3 | Tuesday1783—Washington orders the Continental Army disbandedThe American War for Independence (LP) What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? (LP) |
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| 4 | WednesdayElection DayGeorge Caleb Bingham's The County Election (PA) (ALA) 1922—Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt Egyptian Symbols and Figures: Hieroglyphs (LP) Egypt’s Pyramids: Monuments with a Message (LP) Egyptian Symbols and Figures: Scroll Paintings (LP) |
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| 5 | Thursday1492—Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from the Indians of CubaWhat Was Columbus Thinking? (LP) Native American Cultures Across the U.S. (LP) |
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| 6 | Friday1813—Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of SpainMission Nuestra Señora de la Concepción and the Spanish Mission in the New World (PA) (LP) Conquistadors (W) 1860—Abraham Lincoln elected Abraham Lincoln, the 1860 Election, and the Future of the American Union and Slavery (LP) |
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| 7 | Saturday1811—Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen. William Henry Harrison defeats a Shawnee-led confederation of Ohio Valley tribes.The Campaign of 1840: William Henry Harrison and Tyler, Too (LP) George Caleb Bingham's The County Election (PA) (ALA) |
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| 8 | Sunday1864—Abraham Lincoln elected to second termAbraham Lincoln and Wartime Politics (LP) |
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| 9 | Monday1989—The Berlin Wall comes down, ushering in the unification of Germany and the end of the Cold War.The Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1949 (LP) The Formation of the Western Alliance, 1948-1949 (LP) 1938—"Kristallnacht" (Crystal Night): Nazi Stormtroopers attack Jews The US Holocaust Museum (W) Holocaust and Resistance (LP) |
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| 10 | Tuesday1808—Osage Treaty signedNew Perspectives on the West—Events (W) |
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| 11 | Wednesday1918—World War I Armistice (Veterans Day)The Great War: Evaluating the Treaty of Versailles (LP) Childe Hassam Allies Day, May 1917(PA) United States Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology (LP) |
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| 12 | ThursdayBorn 1815—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, suffragistWho Were the Foremothers of Women’s Equality? (LP) Women’s Equality: Changing Attitudes and Beliefs (LP) Cultural Change (LP) |
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| 13 | Friday1839—1st US antislavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NYSlave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources (LP) African-American Communities in the North Before the Civil War (LP) |
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| 14 | Saturday1851—Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville publishedAcademy of American Poets (W) |
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| 15 | Sunday1777—The American colonies, in the midst of a war for Independence, approve a final version of the Articles of ConfederationThe President under the Articles of Confederation (LP) |
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| 16 | Monday1864—Union General William T. Sherman sets fire to Atlanta, begins March to the SeaBefore 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) |
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| 18 | Wednesday1865—Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"Mark Twain and American Humor (LP) Born 1789— Louis Daguerre, the man who helped invent the art of photography Making Sense in Photographs and Poems (LP) |
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| 19 | Thursday1863—Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg AddressWe Must Not Be Enemies: Lincoln's First Inaugural Address (LP) |
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| 20 | Friday1789—New Jersey becomes 1st state to ratify Bill of RightsThe Constitutional Convention: Four Founding Fathers You May Never Have Met (LP) |
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| 21 | Saturday1789—North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US stateThe Constitutional Convention: What the Founding Fathers Said (LP) 1877— Thomas Edison announces he has invented a new device for recording and playing back sound, which he calls the phonograph Thomas Edison’s Inventions in the 1900s and Today: From “New” to You! (LP) |
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| 22 | Sunday1963—President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, TXThe American President (W) Born 1819—George Eliot, English novelist Victorian Web (W) |
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| 23 | Monday |
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| 24 | Tuesday1958—Mali becomes an autonomous state within French CommunityTrekking to Timbuktu (LP) Learner.org: Mali and Songhai (W) |
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| 25 | WednesdayBorn 1835— Andrew Carnegie, in Dunfermline, ScotlandThe Industrial Age in America: Robber Barons and Captains of Industry (LP) |
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| 26 | Thursday1865—Alice in Wonderland publishedChildhood Through the Looking-Glass (LP) A Trip to Wonderland (LP) |
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| 27 | Friday1095—Pope Urban II proclaims First Crusade at Council of ClermontThe End of Europe's Middle Ages: The Crusades (W) Not Everyone Lived in Castles During the Middle Ages (LP) Died 8 B.C.—The Roman poet Horace Academy of American Poets (W) |
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| 28 | SaturdayBorn 1757—William Blake, English poet and painterWilliam Blake Archive (W) |
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| 29 | Sunday1864—Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne Indians, ColoradoNew Perspectives on the West (W) |
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| 30 | MondayBorn 1667—Jonathan Swift, authorGulliver's Travels (W) Born 1835—Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), author Mark Twain and American Humor Critical Ways of Seeing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Context (LP) |
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