Created in response to teacher requests in 2013, the History eNews emailed monthly short descriptions and links of quality history and social studies events and resources. Now to make news more current and to ease production, items will appea…
In this insightful article, Newhouse explores practical approaches and resources to integrating disability history into teaching about:
The U.S. Civil War Immigration Eugenics in the Progressive Era Civics Education HistoryShe interviews teachers who have taught lessons from the Reform to…
Leah M. Bueso, University of Illinois Springfield, and Rich Cairn, Emerging America published a groundbreaking foundation and guide to organizing student-led civic engagement projects that are fully accessible to and inclusive of students with disabilities and all learners. The chapter entitled Developing the Civic Engagement of Students with Disabilities: Inclusive Civic Action Projects examin…
Guest post by Nancy Spannaus
Origin of the American SystemIt is common practice to present the American System of Economics as the invention of Kentucky politician Henry Clay, who served as a leading spokesman for that policy in the Federal government from 1806 to his death in 1852. But in his advocacy for the key components of the American System–Federal protection for manufactures,…
By Rich Cairn, History, Civics & Social Studies Inclusion Specialist, CES
Teaching about Disability in the Gilded Age and Progressive EraSlides from presentation by Rich Cairn at the virtual conference: A More Perfect Union: Exploring America's Story in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, June 17, 2024
A More Perfect Union: Exploring America's Story in the Gilded Age and…
Guest post by Max Chervin Bridge
Choices Program, a non-profit, secondary education initiative from Brown University’s Department of History, recently published a free online Resource Guide on Disability History and Studies. Choices’ resource guide collects a diverse array of lesson plans, online blogs, academic essays, virtual exhibits, podcasts, short documentaries, and more that poin…
Guest post by Jacqueline LaFrance
LaFrance is the Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies co-facilitator for a professional learning community (PLC) bringing together history teachers and English Language Development specialists most months to consider how best to support multilingual learners in history classrooms. The PLC is part of the English Learner Collaborations project, sup…