• 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.
  

National Women's Heart Health Day

• Great Sites for Teaching about…the Human Heart
  

Langston Hughes, Black American poet (The Weary Blues), born (1902) and died at 65 (1967)

• 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.
  

John Ford, American Academy Award-winning director ( The Informer, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley), born (1895)

• Playbill Online
  Playbill On-Line contains theater news, schedules, ticketing, job information, articles, and even a section on theater art.
  
• Performance Arts: Theater
  Resources from our database.
  

Muriel Spark, British writer (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie), born (1918).

Clark Gable, American actor (Gone With the Wind, It Happened One Night), born (1901)

Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia (1991-1999), born (1931)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English novelist (Frankenstein), died at 53 (1851)

Harriet Tubman, famous for her courageous work with the Underground Railroad, became the first Black woman honored on a U.S. postage stamp (1978)

• Black History on the Internet
  Explore the best Black History sites for primary, middle, and high school level students. Activity and lesson ideas included!
  
• 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.
  
• Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
  The life and accomplishments of Harriet Tubman, highlighting her work on the Underground Railroad.
  

Julia Ward Howe first published the lyrics to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" (1862)

First civil rights sit-in held by four Black college students after being refused service at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, NC (1960)

Martin Luther King Jr. and 700 non-violent civil rights demonstrators were arrested in Selma, Alabama (1965)

• Black History on the Internet
  Explore the best Black History sites for primary, middle, and high school level students. Activity and lesson ideas included!
  

New Zealand gave women the right to vote, the first nation to do so officially and 27 years before the U.S. (1893)

U.S. Supreme Court met for the first time (1790)

First volume of the Oxford English Dictionary published (1884)

• Happy Birthday, Noah Webster!
  Learn more on the Web about the life of Noah Webster, father of the dictionary (born October 16, 1758). Included -- Dictionary games! Cross-curriculum activities! Skills pages for use across the grades!
  
• Vocabulary and Spelling: Do Your Students Say 'Boring'?
  Henry Ward Beecher said, "All words are pegs to hang ideas on." If words are pegs, does it follow that the more words we know, the more ideas we may have? True or not, it is hard to argue the fact that a good vocabulary is an asset in life. What greater service can teachers perform than to help students foster their understanding of words? The Internet offers many tools for young etymologists and an abundance of great ideas for teaching vocabulary and spelling. Dig for definitions and pry for pronunciations -- virtual vocabulary has no limits!
  

President F. W. de Klerk, announced he would repeal all apartheid laws in South Africa (1991)