Holocaust Remembrance Day

Submitted by snituama on March 14, 2013 - 3:04pm
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Repeats every year until Sun Apr 08 2035 .
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Event Date Display: 
April 8, 1982
Related Lesson Plans: 
Anne Frank: One of Hundreds of Thousands
Anne Frank: Writer
Related Links: 
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Days of Remembrance
Coming of Age in the Holocaust, Coming of Age Now

John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” is published

Submitted by snituama on September 21, 2012 - 4:40pm
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Repeats every year until Sat Apr 14 2035 .
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Event Date Display: 
April 14, 1939
Related Lesson Plans: 
John Steinbeck’s "The Grapes of Wrath": The Inner Chapters
John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath”: Verbal Pictures
Related Links: 
John Steinbeck: A Voice for a Region, A Voice for America
The Dust Bowl, a Film by Ken Burns

National Doughnut Day

Submitted by snituama on June 1, 2012 - 11:05am
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Repeats every year until Fri Jun 01 2035 .
June 1, 2012
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Event Date Display: 
June 1, 1938
Related Lesson Plans: 
African-American Soldiers After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed?
Related Links: 
The Great War Society: Doughnut! The Official Story
Image: Salvation Army Lassies giving sweets to returned soldiers
Reporting America at War banner

"Reporting America at War"

The NEH-funded film by Stephen Ives, Reporting America at War, explores the role of American journalists from San Juan Hill to the Persian Gulf in a three-hour documentary that tells the dramatic and often surprising stories of the reporters who wrote the news from the battlefield.

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Wilfred Owen, British poet and WWI soldier, is born

Submitted by edsite.admin on April 29, 2011 - 12:28pm
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Repeats every year until Sun Mar 18 2035 .
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Event Date Display: 
March 18, 1893
Related Lesson Plans: 
Poetry of The Great War: 'From Darkness to Light'?
Related Links: 
American Academy of Poets - Wilfred Owen

Dorothea Lange, American documentary photographer, is born

Submitted by edsite.admin on April 19, 2011 - 4:50pm
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Repeats every year until Sat May 26 2035 .
May 26, 2011
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Event Date Display: 
May 26, 1895
Related Lesson Plans: 
Dust Bowl Days
More Amazing Americans: A WebQuest
Related Links: 
America in Hard Times: How We Dealt with Economic Adversity
Picturing America 18b, Migrant Mother, 1936
Library of Congress: American Memory -- Migrant Workers

Charles Lindbergh, American aviator, is born

Submitted by edsite.admin on February 4, 2011 - 12:55pm
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Repeats every year until Sun Feb 04 2035 .
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Event Date Display: 
February 4, 1902
Related Lesson Plans: 
Lesson 3: U.S. Neutrality and the War in Europe, 1939–1940
Lesson 4: The Great Debate: Internationalists vs. Isolationists
Related Links: 
PBS American Experience: Lindbergh

The Apollo Theatre opens in New York City

Submitted by Anonymous on January 5, 2011 - 6:08pm
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Repeats every year until Fri Jan 26 2035 .
January 26, 2011
January 26, 2012
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January 26, 2015
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Event Date Display: 
January 26, 1934
Related Links: 
AHA Today: Celebrate Black History - The Apollo Theater Interactive Tour

John Steinbeck, American writer, is born

Submitted by edsite.admin on July 8, 2010 - 11:40am
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Repeats every year until Tue Feb 27 2035 .
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Event Date Display: 
February 27, 1902
Related Lesson Plans: 
John Steinbeck’s "The Grapes of Wrath": The Inner Chapters
Steinbeck’s Use of Nonfiction Sources in "The Grapes of Wrath"
Related Links: 
NEH Steinbeck Institute - A Voice for a Region, A Voice for America
PBS The American Novel - Literary Timeline: John Steinbeck
Center for Steinbeck Studies: Biography in Depth

Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins becomes the first woman cabinet officer

Submitted by edsite.admin on June 23, 2010 - 12:21pm
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Repeats every year until Sun Mar 04 2035 .
March 4, 2010
March 4, 2011
March 4, 2012
March 4, 2013
March 4, 2014
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Event Date Display: 
March 4, 1933
Related Lesson Plans: 
Lesson 5: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Rise of Social Reform in the 1930s
Related Links: 
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library: Frances Perkins
Library of Congress Webcast: Frances Perkins the Woman behind FDR

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