Learning About Our History
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Today is Alamo Day, Day of the Dude, Day of Unplugging, Dress Day, Oreo Cookie Day, White Chocolate Cheesecake Day, and No Homework Day.
Women's History Month Resource of the Day: BBC Ideas: Three Women Who Changed How We See the Universe
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Dred Scott Decision
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ON THIS DATE
- 1836 - The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, fell to Mexican forces after a 13-day siege.
- 1853 - Verdi's opera "La Traviata" premiered in Venice, Italy.
- 1857 - In its Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court held that Scott, a slave, could not sue for his freedom in a federal court.
- 1869 - Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
- 1899- Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
- 1912 - Oreo sandwich cookies are introduced by the National Biscuit Co.
- 1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
- 1944 - Bombers staged the first American raid on Berlin during World War II.
- 1951 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
BIRTHDAYS
SONG OF THE DAY
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov - The Flight of the Bumble Bee - LISTEN
THEME: Dred Scott Decision
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - National Archives - Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) and Resource Materials - READ and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Abolitionists - What Was the Dred Scott Decision? (2:00) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - iCivics - Dred Scott v. Sanford Mini Lesson Plan - DO
- Grades 7-12 - Library of Congress - Primary Source Documents - Dred Scott v. Sanford -READ and VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - National Archives - Milestone Documents - Dred Scott v. Sanford - READ and VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - A More Perfect Union - Dred Scott Case (5:18) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Split in Two: The Dred Scott Decision - 1857 (8:39) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Almanac - Dred Scott (6:52) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Abolitionists - The Dred Scott Decision (2:57) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - Oyez - Dred Scott v. Sanford - READ
- Grades 9-12 - Crash Course - The Dred Scott Decision (11:35) - VIEW
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