• 168 Pennies: A National School Campaign to Build the Oklahoma City National Memorial
  Remembering the Oklahoma City bombing, plus activities for teaching conflict resolution. Students around the globe have an opportunity to raise 168 pennies --- one penny for each victim of the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. In addition, the Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation has created a teaching kit for classroom use. The kit includes a 168 Pennies brochure; lesson plans for five activities; and a five-minute video featuring Oklahoma native Shawntel Smith, Miss America 1996, and Clint Seidl, a young student who lost his mother in the bombing. Included: Instructions for ordering the kit, and sample activities too!
• 168 Pennies: A National School Campaign To Build The Oklahoma City National Memorial
  Teaching Master for accompanying article.
• OKC Bombing

1st State Board of Education established (Massachusetts; 1837)

• Celebrate American Education Week by Building a Village
  Celebrate the event and strengthen the bonds between your schools and your community with activities suggested by the National Education Association. Included: Tips for recognizing school staff and involving parents and business during American Education Week!

Battle of Lexington & Concord (1775)

• Spy Letters of the American Revolution
  Here is a fascinating Web site about the American Revolution. The site offers a set of primary source letters written by spies on both sides of the conflict, plus the stories surrounding them. Learn about the methods that secret agents used to encode and hide their information.

Dalai Lama fled Tibet (1959)

• Area Studies: Tibet
  Resources from our database.

FBI raided Branch Davidian Complex in Waco, Texas (1993)

Oldest continuously peaceful alliance made by US (with Netherlands; 1782)

• Area Studies: Netherlands
  Resources from our database.
• Constitutions, Treaties and Declarations
  This Web site is a collection of links to constitutions, treaties, and declaration documents for countries throughout the world.

Paul Revere & William Dawes intercepted by the British, but Samuel Prescott manages to warn the patriots that the British were coming (1775)

• Spy Letters of the American Revolution
  Here is a fascinating Web site about the American Revolution. The site offers a set of primary source letters written by spies on both sides of the conflict, plus the stories surrounding them. Learn about the methods that secret agents used to encode and hide their information.

Sierra Leone Republic Day

US Embassy in Beirut destroyed by car bomb (1983)