November 2026 Inclusive History eNews

In this Issue:

1. News of the Field
2. Disability History News & Resources
3. Events @ Emerging America 
4. Other Events
5. Teaching Resources 
6. New at the Library of Congress 

Featured post this issue: Remembering Laurie Block, Architect of Disability History - by Graham Warder. 

Featured Event: Disability History at the 2026 NCSS Conference - Chicago. 

News of the Field

1. "Why Service-Learning Is the Education Our Students and Our Democracy Need Right Now" - Amy Meuers - National Youth Leadership Council. 
2. Apply for the Yiddish Arts and Culture Initiative - Paper Bridges: Teaching the Holocaust Through Yiddish Literature - due by March 15, 2027 - Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, Mass. 
3. Making Students into Historians - Arminda Lawrence Sr. - American Historical Association. 

Disability History News & Resources

1. The Dot Experience Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind is now open! Louisville, Kentucky. 
2. Remembering Laurie Block, Architect of Disability History by Graham Warder. 
3. The American Association of People with Disabilities Mourns and Remembers Disability Rights Leader Becky Ogle. 
4. November 4 - 6pm Eastern Time - Back to Our Roots, Forward in Power: Chris Palames on Renewing the Independent Living Movement - Judi's Room - I Love You. Lead On! 
5. "The Americans with Disabilities Act Turned 36 This Year: How Governments Can Support People with Disabilities" by Miriam Edelman - Disability Policy Foundry. 

Events @ Emerging America

Learn more about current Emerging America professional development events. 

Disability History at the 2026 NCSS Conference - Chicago. 

• December 4-6 - Disability history sessions by Emerging America and others at the National Council for the Social Studies conference in Chicago. Watch this page for updates right up to the start of the conference. 

Teaching Disability History Interest Group

• Teachers, disability advocates, historians, higher education students and allied organizations meet quarterly to share resources and discuss how to advance the field. ASL and CART provided. Supported by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant. Next meeting is December 17, 5:00-6:00pm Eastern Time. To join the group, email Rich Cairn - rcairn @ collaborative.org. 

Recordings and Resources from Recent Emerging America Events: 

• 2nd Annual Teaching Disability History Conference - Tom Harkin Institute, Drake University - View presenter slides and materials from the July 14 conference. Featuring: Kim Nielsen, University of Toledo, Author: A Disability History of the United States; Sarah Handley-Cousins, University at Buffalo, Author: Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War in the North; Hope Bibens, Curator, Tom Harkin political papers. 

• Teaching Disability and Human Rights: 2nd Annual Virtual Teaching Disability History Conference - Find the recordings, transcript and extensive resource materials from April 7 conference. 

• Disability & Young Voters: Access, Legislation and Mobilizing Young Voters - A National Civic Learning Discussion.

Other Events

In-person, unless noted. Hybrid = in-person and virtual options. 

1. November 11, 2026 - 9am - 12pm - virtual - War for the Dawnland: Reimagining King Philip’s War - Aquinnah Wampanoag Education Department & Massachusetts Historical Society. In-person dates in February and March. 
2. November 12, 2026 - 3:45 Eastern Time - webinar - Three Moves That Change the Room: Inquiry-Based Social Studies for Multilingual Learners with Christina Nelson, WIDA - InquirEd & National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS). 
3. November 21 - 12-5pm Eastern Time - Gaze: Portraiture and The African Diaspora - EdCurious & National Center on Education and the Economy. 
4. December 4-6, 2026 - Chicago - NCSS 106th Annual Conference. NCSS conference info. [Join Emerging America, Keene State College and friends from the Teaching Disability History movement! - Editor] 
5. January 18 - 11:30am - 3:30pm Eastern Time - virtual - 2027 Youth Leadership Summit - National Youth Leadership Council. 
6. January 23, 2027 - SOURCES conference - University of Central Florida. SOURCES conference info. 
7. March 5-6, 2027 - Providence, Rhode Island - National Council for History Education conference. NCHE conference info. [Join Emerging America and friends! - Editor. 
8. June 6-11 or 20-25 - Supreme Court Summer Institute - Street Law, Inc. 

Teaching Resources

1. Holocaust and Human Behavior - readings, primary sources, and films - Facing History and Ourselves. 
2. Top 5 iCivics Resources for teaching the Midterm Elections. 
3. Power of Young People Podcast - Hear how young people are using their power to change the world, their communities, and the lives of others - National Youth Leadership Council. 
4. AI without outsourcing student thinking - A practical way to decide where AI can remove needless barriers and where students need to do the intellectual work themselves - CL Learning Labs. 
5. Okay, but what's your point? A history teacher's guide to cracking the code for stronger AP History essays - CL Learning Labs. 

New at the Library of Congress

1. World War II: A New Primary Source Set from the Library of Congress. 
2. Examining a Journalism Code of Ethics. 
3. Listening to a Newspaper Journalist’s Perspective. 
4. Using Newspaper Journalism to Introduce Units of Study in United States History. 
5. Newspaper Journalism - Primary Source Set. 
6. Formulating Questions from a Congressional Report: Investigating the 1913 Woman’s Suffrage Procession. 
7. Progressive Era Election Reforms: Power to the People. 
8. Celebrate Hispanic American History Month with Primary Sources. 
9. Piquing Student Curiosity About Amending and Annotating the Constitution, Particularly During the Progressive Era. 

Image Credits

1. Laurie Block. American Antiquarian Society. 
2. The Dot Experience Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind. 
3. Holocaust and Human Behavior. 
4. Do the job HE left behind: Apply U.S. Employment Service War Manpower Commission - R. G. Harris - 1944 - Library of Congress.