• Great Sites for Teaching About...Inventors and Inventions
  

Thomas Alva Edison, prolific American inventor who received 1200 patents over the course of his career, born (1847)

• Great Sites for Teaching About...Inventors and Inventions
  

Virginia E. Johnson, American psychologist and author (Human Sexual Response), born (1925)

Auguste Mariette, French archaeologist who excavated the Sphinx and pyramids in Egypt, born (1821)

William Fox Talbot, English chemist and pioneer photographer who invented the calotype, an early photographic process that was an improvement over the daguerreotype, born (1800)

Joseph Mankiewicz, American Academy Award-winning writer and director (A Letter to Three Wives, All About Eve), born (1909)

Rene Descartes, French philosopher (Principia Philosophiae), died (1650)

Honore Daumier, French painter, lithographer and caricaturist, died (1879)

Sergei Eisenstein, Russian pioneering film director and editor (Potemkin), died at 50 (1948)

Sylvia Plath, American writer (The Bell Jar, Ariel), died in London at 30 (1963)

Frank Herbert, American science-fiction author (Dune), died at 65 (1986)

• 9-12 Literature & Poetry Center
  Resources and tools from our Language & Literature Center.
  

Mount Holyoke Seminary, the first woman's college in the U.S. was chartered at South Hadley, MA (1836)

The French Chef, starring Julia Child, debuted on television (1963)

U.S. opened 11 million acres of Sioux land to white settlers (1890)

President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin signed the Yalta Agreement during World War II (1945)

Frederick Banting and Charles Best, Canadian medical researchers announced the discovery and isolation of insulin (1922)

Nelson Mandela, an advocate for democracy in South Africa, was released from prison after 27 years (1990)

Society of Friends, a Quaker group officially petitioned Congress for the abolition of slavery in the U.S. (1790)

• The Road to Freedom: Using the WWW to Teach About Slavery
  For black slaves in America, the road to freedom was a long and difficult one. This week, Education World observes Black History Month by providing activities to help your students trace that journey and to learn about some of the heroes who paved the way to freedom. Included: Activities for teaching about slavery across the grades and the curriculum.
  

London University was formally founded (1826)

Janet Reno became the first female U.S. Attorney General when she was selected by President Clinton (1993)