American poet and writer Eve Merriam born

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Related Lesson Plans: 
All Together Now: Collaborations in Poetry Writing
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American Academy of Poets: Eve Merriam

American poet, essayist, educator Robert Hayden born

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August 4, 1913
Related Lesson Plans: 
Analyzing Poetic Devices: Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" and Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz"
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Amercian Academy of Poets - Robert Hayden

Novelist and critic Virginia Woolf drowns herself at age 59

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March 28, 1941
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Virginia Woolf in the Classroom

American author John Updike born

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March 18, 1932
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Related Initiatives: 
Picturing America
Related Links: 
Jefferson Lecture: John Updike "What is American About American Art?"
John Updike Biography
Picturing America

Political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau born

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June 28, 1712
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Jean Jacques Rousseau
Major Political Writings

Essayist Michel de Montaigne born

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Introducing the Essay: Twain, Douglass, and American Non-Fiction
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Essays of Montaigne
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Montaigne
The Essay as Self Knowledge: Montaigne's Philosophical Appropriations of History and Poetry
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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

Chronicling America enhances access to America's regional, historic newspapers. This site allows the visitor to search, view, clip, and save pages from 1836 through 1922, as well as find newspapers published between 1620 and the present. Learn more about using Chronicling America in the classroom with EDSITEment's Chronicling America special feature.

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William Faulkner, American writer, dies

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July 6, 1962
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Lesson 1: Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Images of Faulkner and the South
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