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Newly formed National Labor Union calls on Congress to mandate eight-hour workday
August 20, 1866
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Lesson Plan / History & Social StudiesWas There an Industrial Revolution? New Workplace, New Technology, New Consumers
In this lesson, students explore the First Industrial Revolution in early nineteenth-century America. Through simulation activities and the examination of primary historical materials, students learn how changes in the workplace and less expensive goods led to the transformation of American life.
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Economic Opportunity Act in a step toward fighting “War on Poverty”
August 20, 1964
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Lesson Plan / History & Social StudiesJFK, 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.
Edgar Guest, poet and journalist, is born
August 20, 1881
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Lesson Plan / History & Social StudiesPoetry of The Great War: 'From Darkness to Light'?
The historian and literary critic Paul Fussell has noted in The Great War and Modern Memory that, "Dawn has never recovered from what the Great War did to it." With dawn as a common symbol in poetry, it is no wonder that, like a new understanding of dawn itself, a comprehensive body of "World War I Poetry" emerged from the trenches as well.
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