Sites
of the Month for February 2004
Black History Month
Ancestry.com:
http://www.ancestry.com/home/celebrate/blackhistory.htm
Read firsthand about the struggles and triumphs of life as an
American slave. This collection of interviews is the most complete
picture available of the African American slavery experience.
Librarians
Index to the Internet:
http://lii.org/bhmonth
Annotated directory of resources related to African-American history,
emancipation, and slavery.
The
Blackstripe:
http://www.blackstripe.com/blacklist/
This list of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered people of
African descent was first developed in response to requests for
names of lesbian, gay and transgendered people to include in Black
History Month.
Celebrating
Black History Month at The Holiday Zone:
http://www.theholidayzone.com/black/black.html
Arts projects, discussion topics, and recommended books and links.
The
History Channel - Black History Month:
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/blackhist/
Biographical profiles of famous African Americans, roots exhibit,
and television programming.
The
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Kid's Corner:
http://www.post-gazette.com/blackhistorymonth/kids.asp
Collection of articles about the experiences of African Americans.
KQED
Black History Month Guide:
http://www.kqed.org/topics/history/heritage/black/
KQED proudly celebrates the richness and diversity of the greater
San Francisco Bay Area by commemorating February, Black History
Month.
TIME.com
- Celebrating Black History:
http://www.time.com/time/reports/blackhistory/
Lauryn Hill. Duke Ellington. Michael Jordan. Malcolm X. Toni Morrison.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Your family and friends, your neighbors.
Black Americans have helped shape who we are as a nation, and
continue to play important roles in fields ranging from education
to entertainment.
Encyclopedia
Britannica's Guide to Black History Month:
http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/
Online archive of audio and video clips and articles.
Library
of Congress:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
Covering the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western
hemisphere, the Mosaic surveys the full range size, and variety
of the Library's collections, including books, periodicals, prints,
photographs, music, film, and recorded sound.
National
Geographic:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/
National Geographic offers a celebration of Black History Month
with a new look at Harlem, a longtime mecca for African Americans
and foreign tourists, as well as a Photo Gallery:Faces of Traditional
Africa, an interactive site featuring the Underground Railroad,
and a page for kids about the courage of Rosa Parks.
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Chinese
New Year
2004
Southwest Airlines Chinese New Year Festival & Parade:
http://www.chineseparade.com/
Saturday, February 7th at 5:30 pm at Market and Second Streets
in San Francisco, CA.
Chinatown
Online:
http://www.chinatown-online.co.uk/pages/new_year/index.html
The oldest and most important festival in China is the Spring
Festival, more commonly known in the West as Chinese New Year.
Chinese
New Year, Government Information Office, Taiwan:
http://www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan-website/5-gp/newyear/
"The origin of the Chinese New Year Festival can be traced
back thousands of years through a continually evolving series
of colorful legends and traditions."
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2004
is a Leap Year
Time
and Date.com:
http://www.timeanddate.com/date/leapyear.html
On this page you will find information about leap years, why and
when they are used.
Eric
Weissten's World of Science
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/LeapYear.html
A series of pages from Eric Weisstein discussing leap year.
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Washington's and Lincoln's Birthdays
Library
of Congress, The George Washington Papers:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html
This is the largest collection of original Washington documents
in the world.
Library
of Congress, Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alhome.html
The Abraham Lincoln Papers housed in the Manuscript Division contain
approximately 20,000 items including correspondence and papers
accumulated primarily during Lincoln's presidency.
Abraham
Lincoln Online:
http://www.netins.net/showcase/creative/lincoln.html
Our intent is to reflect Abraham Lincoln in his historical context,
rather than retrofit him to contemporary expectations.
Alderman
Library, University of Virginia:
http://www.virginia.edu/gwpapers/
The Papers of George Washington, a grant-funded project, was established
in 1969 at the University of Virginia, under the joint auspices
of the University and the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of
the Union, to publish a complete edition of Washington's correspondence.
David
Ramsay's Life of George Washington:
http://earlyamerica.com/lives/gwlife/index.html
Our main focus at Archiving Early America is primary source material
from 18th Century America -- all displayed digitally. A unique
array of original newspapers, maps and writings come to life on
your screen just as they appeared to our forebears more than 200
years ago.
Roger
Norton's Abraham Lincoln Research Site:
http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln2.html
Student resources on Abraham Lincoln's Assassination, and Mary
Todd Lincoln.
Northern
Illinois University, Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project:
http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/
Lincoln/Net presents historical materials from Abraham Lincoln's
Illinois years (1830-1861), including Lincoln's writings and speeches,
as well as other materials illuminating antebellum Illinois.
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St. Valentine's Day
A Valentine's Day Trivia Hunt for kids:
http://arthur.k12.il.us/arthurgs/valtrht.htm
Constructed for children by children at Arthur Elementary School,
Arthur, Illinois.
History
Channel, Valentine's Day:
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/valentine/
Every February, across the country, candy, flowers, and gifts
are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine.
But who is this mysterious saint and why do we celebrate this
holiday?
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Historical
Events and Birthdays
This month we acknowledge the birthdays of feminists, a stationmaster
on the Underground Railroad, a ragtime piano virtuoso, a suffragist,
and a painter.
February
1 - 29
San Francisco Crab Festival
http://www.sfvisitor.org/crab/index.asp
Crack open some fun with the San Francisco Crab Festival, February
1 - February 29, 2004. From the simmering crab pots of Fisherman's
Wharf to the white tablecloths of Union Square, San Francisco
will be engaged in one giant crab feed, and no celebration of
this legendary crustacean would be complete without an equally
hearty salute to wine.
February 2 - 8
AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am Course Info
http://www.golfweb.com/tournaments/r005/course.html
View flyover of Hole No. 1: With the rough grown in on the right
as part of the championship course set-up, what was a soft dogleg
par four now bends abruptly to the right...
February
2
Punxsutawney Phil's Official Site
http://www.groundhog.org/
"Groundhog Day, February 2nd, is a popular tradition in the
United States. It is also a legend that traverses centuries, its
origins clouded in the mists of time with ethnic cultures and
animals awakening on specific dates."
Candelmas
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03245b.htm
http://www.web-holidays.com/candle/index.asp
The feast day of Bridget of Kildare, the Celtic goddess of fire,
the hearth, smithy, fields, poetry and childbirth. Bridget was
sainted and Candlemas became a time when the candles that were
used throughout the year where blessed by the church.
1905:
Ayn Rand
http://www.ayn-rand.com/ayn-rand-bio.asp
Novelist and philosopher
February
3
Get Out Ogre! Come In Happiness!:
http://www2.gol.com/users/stever/setsubun.htm
On the night of Setsubun, many Japanese will decorate a holy tree
in front of their houses with a head of a sardine, a clove of
garlic, or an onion. Such talismans are designed to keep the oni
away as the New Year approaches...
1874: Gertrude Stein
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/stein-bio.html
American writer
February
4
1906: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
http://www.dbonhoeffer.org/who-was-db2.htm
Theologian and member of German resistance movement during World
War II
1913: Rosa Lee McCauley Parks
http://www.tsum.edu/museum/parksbio.htm
Civil rights activist
1921: Betty Naomi Friedan http://search.eb.com/women/articles/Friedan_Betty_Naomi_Goldstein.html
Feminist and social reformer
February
6
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/gallery/treaty/
New Zealand History: Waitangi Day commemorates the signing of
a treaty at Waitangi on 6 February 1840 by a group of Maori chiefs
and the British Government.
February
7
1817: Frederick Douglass
http://www.nps.gov/frdo/freddoug.html
Lecturer against slavery, Stationmaster on the Underground Railroad
and public official
Browse the collection of his papers at the Library of Congress
at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/doughome.html
1883:
James Hubert "Eubie" Blake
http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/magic/saloon/blake.html
Hear an interview with ragtime piano master, Eubie Blake at this
site.
February
12
The Darwin Day Program:
http://www.darwinday.org/
The Darwin Day Program launched the year-round Evolving Awareness
initiative in 2002. In order to advance the public knowledge and
understanding of evolution in general and to honor the importance
of our groundbreaking scientists...
1809:
Charles Robert Darwin
http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/96feb/darwin.html
British naturalist
1809: Abraham Lincoln
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html
16th President of America, signer of the Emancipation Proclamation
February
15
1820: Susan B. Anthony
http://www.learningtogive.org/papers/people/susan_b_anthony.html
Suffragist, abolitionist, and women's rights campaigner
February
17
Maha Shivaratri
http://www.swaminarayan.org/festivals/Shivratri/
http://www.dattapeetham.com/india/shivaratri/shivaratri.html
http://beaskund.helloyou.ws/askbaba/guide/shivaratri.html
A night of fasting, dedicated to Lord Shiva; the third deity of
the Hindu trinity
February
18
1931: Toni Morrison
http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1993/morrison-bio.html
Nobel Prize-winning author
February
19
1940: Smokey Robinson
http://www.rhythmandtheblues.org.uk/artists/robinson.shtml
Rhythm and blues singer and member of The Miracles
February
21
1936: Barbara C. Jordan
http://www.house.gov/jacksonlee/AllAboutHouston/barbara_charline_jordan.htm
Congresswoman
February
22
1732: George Washington
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gw1.html
1st President of America, and Father of our country
February
23
1868: W.E.B.Dubois
http://www.duboislc.org/html/DuBoisBio.html
http://www.duboislc.org/
Historian, sociologist, writer, and civil rights activist and
the foremost African-American intellectual of the twentieth century.
February
24
1836: Winslow Homer
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/homer_winslow.html
American painter of the Luminist School
February
26
1928: Antoine "Fats" Domino
http://www.rhythmandtheblues.org.uk/artists/domino.shtml
Piano player and proponent of the New Orleans Rhythm and Blues
sound
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