Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as first African-American Supreme Court Justice

Mary Shelley, née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, British writer, is born

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  Lesson Plan / Art & Culture

  Tales of the Supernatural

  Examine the relationship between science and the supernatural in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the “horror stories” of Hawthorne and Poe.

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Union General John C. Fremont institutes martial law in Missouri, declares slaves free

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  The Emancipation Proclamation: Freedom's First Steps

  Why was the Emancipation Proclamation important? While the Civil War began as a war to restore the Union, not to end slavery, by 1862 President Abraham Lincoln came to believe that he could save the Union only by broadening the goals of the war. Students can explore the obstacles and alternatives America faced in making the journey toward "a more perfect Union."

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