Immigrants - November 12

Coming to America Learning

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Today is National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day and Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day.

Native American Heritage Month Resource - Native America - Sacred Story Shorts
Drum Month Resource of the Day - Stradivarius of Steel

AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE

1751 - Margaret Corbin, who dressed as a man and joined her husband in the Battle of Fort Washington on Manhattan Island, was born on this date in 1751.

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Immigrants

ON THIS DATE

1920 - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis becomes baseball's first commissioner.
1927 - Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Communist Party, and Josef Stalin becomes the leader of the Soviet Union.
1954 - Ellis Island ends operations as an immigrant processing center.
1097 - The Oregon Highway Division unwisely attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives.
1980 - NASA space probe Voyager I takes the first images of Saturn's rings.
1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.

BIRTHDAYS

1815 - Women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1840 - French sculptor Auguste Rodin
1929 - Actor Grace Kelly
1934 - Cult leader Charles Manson
1943 - Actor Wallace Shawn
1945 - Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young
1970 - Figure skater Tonya Harding
1982 - Actor Anne Hathaway

SONGS OF THE DAY

Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song - LISTEN
Neil Diamond - America - LISTEN
K'naan featuring Residente, Riz MC & Snow Tha Product - Immigrants (We Get The Job Done) - LISTEN
Neil Young - Old Man - LISTEN

THEME: IMMIGRANTS

Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Arthur - Becoming a Citizen (10:11) - VIEW and DO
Grades 2-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Faces of America Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Statue of Liberty - The Promise (3:37) - VIEW and DO
Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Statue of Liberty - Reactions to Arrival in the U.S. (3:16) - VIEW and DO
Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Triangle Fire: Immigrant Workers & the American Dream (1:15) - VIEW
Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -Teaching the Stories of the Immigration Debate Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Stepping Up: Immigration Issues with Walter (2:35) - VIEW and DO
Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Above the Noise - Is There Really an Immigration "Line" to Wait In? (5:07) - VIEW and DO
Grades 6-12 - Ellis Island - READ and DO
/Grade 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Asian Americans - Angel Island and the Chinese Exclusion Act (5:25) - VIEW, READ, DO
Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Prohibition - Immigrant Invasion (1:53) - VIEW and DO
Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Immigrant Stories Revealed (26:40) - VIEW
Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Retro Report -Exploring the Recent History of U.S. Immigration Backlashes (9:52) - VIEW
Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Frontline - Zero Tolerance (54:17) - VIEW
Grades 9-12 - Annenberg Learner - The Constitution: That Delicate Balance - Immigration Reform (57:43) - VIEW, READ, DO

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