• Special Education Center
  Resources and activities from our Special Education Center

Gilbert Stuart, American portrait painter (George Washington), born (1755)

• Refrigerator to Renoir: Ten Great Art Lessons on the Net

George B. McClellan, Union army general who defeated Robert E. Lee at Antietam, born (1826)

• Great Sites about the Civil War
  Some of the best sites on the web for teaching about the American Civil War

Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist considered the father of the weather bureau, born (1838)

Joseph Conrad, novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness), born in Poland (1857)

• 9-12 Literature & Poetry Center
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Frank E. Gannett, newspaper publisher, died at 81 (1957)

• Education News
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Illinois admitted as 21st US state (1818)

• Information : The Fifty States of the United States
  The site lists all 50 states with most of their features (flag, song, bird, motto etc.) and their capitol cities.

Andrew Jackson elected 7th president of US (1828)

• Great Sites for Teaching About…Presidents of the United States
  Best sites on the web for teaching about the presidents.

Oberlin College, first U.S. coeducational college, opened in Ohio (1833)

• Higher Education Center
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Frederick Douglass published the first issue of his Abolitionist newspaper "North Star" (1847)

• Ten Activities Celebrate Achievements of African Americans!
  With the assistance of the Web, you too can incorporate activities that reflect the positive impact black Americans have had on our nation's history.
• 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.

Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire" opened on Broadway (1947)

First US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in (1948)

Police arrested 800 sit-in students at University of California at Berkeley (1964)

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish-American writer, (Treasure Island , Kidnapped) died in Samoa at the age of 44 (1894)

• 9-12 Literature & Poetry Center
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Dr. Christian Barnard and a team of surgeons performed the first human heart transplant in Cape Town, South Africa (1967)

• Great Sites for Teaching about…the Human Heart