President John F. Kennedy born

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  JFK, LBJ, and the Fight for Equal Opportunity in the 1960s

  This lesson provides students with an opportunity to study and analyze the innovative legislative efforts of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson in the social and economic context of the 1960s.

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  The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: The Missiles of October

  Most historians agree that the world has never come closer to nuclear war than it did during a thirteen-day period in October 1962, after the revelation that the Soviet Union had stationed several medium-range ballistic missiles in Cuba. This lesson will examine how this crisis developed, how the Kennedy administration chose to respond, and how the situation was ultimately resolved.

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Constantinople falls to Ottomans

Patrick Henry, American patriot, is born

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  Voices of the American Revolution

  This lesson helps students "hear" some of the diverse colonial voices that, in the course of time and under the pressure of novel ideas and events, contributed to the American Revolution.  Students analyze a variety of primary documents illustrating the diversity of religious, political, social, and economic motives behind competing perspectives on questions of independence and rebellion.

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Sojourner Truth addresses the first Women's Rights Convention in Akon, OH with her “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech

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