Inclusive History News
In this Issue:
- News of the Field
- Disability History News & Resources
- Events @ Emerging America
- Other Events
- Teaching Resources
- New at the Library of Congress
February Featured Blog Post - Eugenics: Teaching Agency and the Roots of Genocide - including lesson from Reform to Equal Rights
News of the Field
- Join the Mass Council for the Social Studies - Your colleagues and advocates in a challenging era.
- Join the Disability History Association community of historians, educators and advocates.
- Massachusetts Civic Learning Grant Applications due February 28 - Department of Elementary & Secondary Education.
Disability History News & Resources
- February 5 - 6pm Eastern - Part 3: The Man Who Helped Shut Down the Infamous Willowbrook Facility! - Dr. Bill Bronston - Judi's Room - Meeting link.
- February 12 - 6-8pm Eastern - Planned Parenthood of Northern New England - Access & Affirmation: Intersections on Disability and Reproductive and Sexual Health Care.
- A sound idea: How Live Transcribe went from helping a team to communicate — to helping millions of people - Google.
- Sensory Friendly Sundays - monthly - Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke.
- American Association of People with Disabilities - Fall 2025 Internships.
Events @ Emerging America
Info on Emerging America professional development events: upcoming presentations, past recordings and more.
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Monthly - 3:30-5:00pm Eastern - online CES Social Studies PLC - Register.
- Facilitated by veteran teacher-leader Peter Vamosy. Optional PDPs.
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February 18 - Civic Engagement in Any Subject: Integrating Local History Across the Curriculum - Northampton, Massachusetts - Stipends - Details & Registration
- Led by veteran civic engagement teacher, Catherine Glennon, Mohawk Trail Regional High School.
- Full day February 18 at CES in Northampton, Massachusetts - with 2-hour virtual follow-up in April, date TBD. Lunch provided.
- Registration is $135 – though completing teachers will receive $300 stipends and be eligible for $300 for projects with students. Supported by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Eastern Region Program.
Earn $300 stipend + $300 in project funds. Optional 1 graduate credit from Westfield State University. (With extra registration fee.)
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February 27 - 6:00-7:30pm Eastern Time - Webinar - Building Access to DBQs for Multilingual Learners
- The Multilingual Learner Collaborations project of the Massachusetts Council for the Social studies is presenting a webinar in the Immigrant Learning Center public education series.
- Information and registration for DBQs for Multilingual Learners.
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April 7-11 - in person and virtual - ADA 35 – Disability Theory; Disability in Practice; Disability as Culture - 4th Annual Symposium for Disability and Accessibility at Yale.
- April 10 - Emerging America's Rich Cairn, Ross Newton and Kate Benson and symposium organizer Kenya Loudd from Yale will present a panel on disability, access and inclusion in teaching K-12 students.
- Registration will open soon. Contact kenya.loudd@yale.edu for information.
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July 8 - Teaching Disability History Conference - Keene, New Hampshire - Keene State College
- Details at Teaching Disability History Across America: Primary Source Investigations by ALL Learners.
- Free conference for teachers, disability advocates, historians, higher education students and allied organizations. Supported by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant.
Other Events
- Teacher's Guide To The Post-2024 Election
A "Now What?" Non-Partisan Resource Guide
For K-12 Social Studies Educators - Mass Council for the Social Studies.
- February 16 - 6-9pm Eastern - Educators for Democracy - The Institute for Common Power.
- February 18 - 7pm Eastern - Smith College - Of Bondage and Isolation: Meditations on the Lives of Black Women Enslaved in Massachusetts's Pioneer Valley - Historic Northampton.
- February 27 - 8-9pm Eastern - Fighting for a Just and Inclusive Democracy in 2025: Your Path to Advocacy - Institute for Common Power.
- March 14-14 - National Civic Learning Week.
- March 20-22 - St. Louis - National Council for History Education Conference.
- April 12 - Westfield State University - Historyfest Pioneer Valley.
- May-June - MA Civics Projects Showcases - MA Department of Elementary & Secondary Education and Generation Citizen.
Teaching Resources
- Black History Month - National Constitution Center.
- Resources on History & Culture - Institute for Common Power.
- Amazon Rainforest Defenders Confront Violence, Encroachment and Politics - video & lesson - Retro Report.
- Teaching About Immigration and Migration - collection from RetroReport.
- Beyond Gold Mountain: Asian American History for Eastern US Classrooms
- Is It Better to Ask Questions or Listen Carefully? New study looks at what really sparks curiosity and learning - Lory Hough - Harvard School of Education.
New at the Library of Congress
- Exploring African American History with Library of Congress Teacher Resources - blog post.
- Copyright and Primary Sources” Self-Paced Professional Development Module Now Available - blog post.
- 2025 Library of Congress Literacy Awards: Call for applications.
About Emerging America's Inclusive History News
Committed to Access and Inclusion of All Learners in Civics, History and Social Studies
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. Since September, 2024 items appear in an Emerging America blog page from the first of each month, with a monthly Constant Contact email notice to our 2,300+ subscribers. Sign up free at the bottom of the page.
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Image Credits
- Eugenists Would Improve Human Stock by Blotting Out Blood Taints. New-York Tribune. February 18, 1912, Page 2, Image 16. Chronicling America, Library of Congress.
- Black women airplane production workers. (1942). Photograph by Alfred T. Palmer. Library of Congress.