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Civil War
December 3, 2019 By Barbara Feldman
More than 620,000 Americans died in the Civil War (1861-1865), more than any other war in American history. The North prevailed over the South, but the grief and bitterness caused by the war casualties and injuries healed very slowly. Learn …[Continue]

Sojourner Truth
November 19, 2019 By Barbara Feldman
Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree) was one of the best-known abolitionists of the nineteenth century. Born a slave in New York in approximately 1797, she was freed in 1828. She took the name Sojourner Truth in 1843 when she began …[Continue]

Pilgrims of Plymouth
November 12, 2019 By Barbara Feldman
The Pilgrims were a English Separatist congregation that emigrated to Holland in 1608 to escape religious persecution. Twelve years later, discouraged by economic conditions, the congregation voted to move again, this time to America. A small ship, the Speedwell, carried …[Continue]
Surfing the Calendar
- International Calendar Awareness MonthDecember
- Universal Human Rights MonthDecember
- Game of Bingo Created by Edwin S. LoweDec, 1929
- National Cookie DayDec 4, 2019
- Walt Disney’s BirthdayDec 5, 1901
- Montgomery Bus BoycottDec 5, 1955
- Parthenon DayDec 5, 1997
- Thirteenth Amendment to US Constitution RatifiedDec 6, 1865
- Ira Gershwin’s BirthdayDec 6, 1896
- Pearl Harbor Attacked by JapanDec 7, 1941
- John Lennon MurderedDec 8, 1980
- Computer Mouse DevelopedDec 9, 1968
- Admiral Grace Hopper’s BirthdayDec 9, 1906
- Computer Science Education WeekDec 9-15, 2019
- Hour of Code (Computer Science Education Week)Dec 9-15, 2019
- Emily Dickinson’s BirthdayDec 10, 1830
- Human Rights DayDec 10, 2019
- Nobel Prize Award CeremonyDec 10, 2019
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